AYLWORTH MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry's AYLWORTH MANOR and saved historical form Ayleworth correspond to the historic Aylworth/Ayleworth settlement and manor in Naunton, Gloucestershire. The surviving manor house is documented as Aylesworth House at Ayleworth, Naunton, and the present property is identified as Aylworth Manor. Historical accounts place the manor and capital messuage at Ayleworth and distinguish it from other Naunton holdings.
Representative point: 51.8962, -1.8430
Basis: documented_manor_house — Aylesworth House, historically the manor-house/capital-messuage site at Ayleworth, Naunton; Historic England gives National Grid Reference SP 10899 21977, corresponding approximately to 51.8962, -1.8430.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence establishes the manor's location at Ayleworth and records associated lands in Ayleworth, Naunton and Calcut, but does not provide a sufficiently accessible manor map, field-by-field survey transcription, or explicit perimeter from which a defensible historical manorial polygon can be reconstructed. The 1566-1568 survey reference WARD 11/4/3 is an important lead, but its online catalogue entry alone does not establish the boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives: AYLWORTH MANOR, TNA/MDR record F241529: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F241529 — Registry record supplied for the exact manor; identifies the manor as AYLWORTH MANOR in Naunton, Gloucestershire, under authority/reference GB/NNAF/M225696.
- The National Archives: Survey of Aylworth Manor, 1566-1568, WARD 11/4/3: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14309553 — Surviving survey record and principal boundary-research lead; the catalogue reference confirms the existence of a manor survey but does not expose enough mapped or textual boundary detail for polygon construction.
- Aylesworth House, Naunton, Historic England listing 1341087: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1341087 — Documents Aylesworth House at Ayleworth, Naunton, Gloucestershire, National Grid Reference SP 10899 21977, and describes the historic house and associated earthworks.
- About Aylworth Manor: https://aylworthmanor.co.uk/about/ — Identifies the current historic property as Aylworth Manor, Aylworth, Naunton, Gloucestershire, supporting the correspondence between the registry manor and the surviving manor-house site.
- Historical account of Aylworth/Ayleworth in Naunton: https://www.aylesworth.net/Confidence_family_DWT_CSS/family_surname.htm — Secondary transcription of Gloucestershire historical material places Ayleworth about one mile southwest of Naunton church, identifies the seat of the Ayleworth family, and records the 1567 livery of the manor and capital messuage of Ayleworth with associated lands.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is reliable for the manor-house site but should not be interpreted as the centre of the entire historical manorial territory.
- No historical polygon is returned because the accessible evidence does not establish the manor's complete perimeter. The 1566-1568 survey should be consulted directly at The National Archives for possible boundary details.