AVINGTON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry location in Berkshire matches the distinct Avington manor in the former parish of Avington, now Kintbury, West Berkshire, rather than the unrelated Avington manor and estate in Hampshire. The West Berkshire Historic Environment Record identifies Avington Manor at OS grid reference SU 370 680 and describes the surviving house as the rebuilt manor house on the historic site. Medieval evidence places the manor in the Kintbury hundred and records its descent from Gunnar of Avington in 1066 through Richard Pungiant in 1086 and the de Camville family by the twelfth century.
Representative point: 51.4103, -1.4681
Basis: documented_manor_house — The surviving Avington Manor/The Manor House, at OS grid reference SU 370 680, is the documented manor-house site. The present listed building is an eighteenth-century rebuilding of the earlier manor house destroyed by fire.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: Accessible evidence establishes the manor-house site and indicates that Avington was a distinct former parish and manor of approximately 1,185 acres in the nineteenth-century gazetteer. A surviving 1839 Avington tithe award and map is catalogued, but the accessible evidence does not provide a sufficiently verifiable digital perimeter or demonstrate that the parish/tithe extent exactly equals the historical manorial extent. The manorial boundary should therefore not be reconstructed from the modern Kintbury parish or from the 1,185-acre parish figure.
Sources:
- West Berkshire Historic Environment Record: Avington Manor, MWB16838: https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=1030&uid=MWB16838 — Identifies Avington Manor in Kintbury, West Berkshire, at SU 370 680; describes the surviving manor house, its rebuilding after fire, the historic manor-house site, and cites the 1839 Avington tithe map.
- Historic England: The Manor House, Avington, list entry 1117237: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1117237 — Authoritative listed-building identification for the manor house at Avington, West Berkshire; records the eighteenth-century rebuilding of the earlier house destroyed by fire.
- CRSBI: St Mark, Avington, Berkshire: https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=11074 — Places Avington in the Kintbury hundred and describes the tiny settlement as consisting of the church and former manor; summarizes the manor's medieval descent and gives the adjacent church location.
- Royal Berkshire Archives: Avington tithe award and map, D/D1/11/1: https://ww2.berkshirenclosure.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?id=DD1%2F11%2F1&src=CalmView.Catalog — Catalogues the 1839 Avington tithe award and map, a potential primary source for reconstructing historical parcels and extent.
- The National Archives: TNA/MDR record F241282: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F241282 — Registry record supplied for the exact manor identification.
- The National Archives: DL29/1/2, ministers accounts with other manors, 1303-1305: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14288755 — Existing registry research lead indicating medieval ministerial accounts relevant to Avington and associated manors; the accessible catalogue metadata does not expose a geographic boundary.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- Do not substitute Avington in Hampshire, including Avington Park near Winchester; that is a different manor and estate.
- No historically defensible manorial polygon was found in the accessible evidence. The 1839 tithe map is a promising lead but should be inspected directly before any boundary injection.
- The surviving house is a rebuilt manor house on the historic site, not necessarily the exact footprint of the medieval or early-modern building.