AYMESTREY

Identity: confirmed — The registry place and historical names correspond to Aymestrey in Herefordshire: Domesday and later sources attest Elmodestreu/Aylmundestre, while the British Library catalogue explicitly records a 1599 survey of Aymestrey Manor. The associated Lye evidence is consistent with the historical Aymestrey-Lye manorial context, but does not by itself establish a separate or wider boundary.
Representative point: 52.2948, -2.8366
Basis: documented_manor_house — Manor Cottage in the Yatton part of Aymestrey is a late-16th/early-17th-century listed house historically known as Manor House; current Herefordshire planning records also identify the property as Manor House, Yatton. The coordinate is converted approximately from Historic England NGR SO 43024 66633.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: medieval to early modern; specific surveyed extent not established
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The evidence confirms the manor's historical location and links Aymestrey with associated places including Yatton and Lye, but no accessible source found supplies a manor-specific boundary polygon or sufficiently explicit perimeter. The 1599 survey is catalogued but not digitised in the available catalogue record, and the modern civil-parish boundary cannot safely be substituted for the historical manorial extent.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Aymestrey Manor record F279999: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F279999 — Registry record supplied for Aymestrey Manor, authority GB/NNAF/M303207.
- British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue, Add MS 27605: https://searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/032-002031012 — Catalogue description of a 1599 survey of the manors of Aymestrye, Lye Devereux and other Herefordshire manors; it explicitly includes Aymestrey Manor.
- Historic England: Manor Cottage, Aymestrey, list entry 1082079: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1082079 — Locates the late-C16/early-C17 Manor Cottage in the Yatton part of Aymestrey at NGR SO 43024 66633.
- Grant & Co property description: Manor Cottage, Yatton, Aymestrey: https://www.grantco.co/properties/20759786/sales — States that the listed property has been known variously as Manor House and Manor Cottage, supporting its use as the representative manor-house location.
- Herefordshire Council, Aymestrey Neighbourhood Development Plan: https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/downloads/file/17722/neighbourhood_development_plan_march_2019.pdf — Identifies Domesday Aymestrey as Elmodestreu, describes it as a sub-manor, discusses the historical Aymestrey mills and Yatton area, and notes the wider medieval landscape context.
- The National Archives: E179/248/13: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/e179/details.asp?doc_id=21714&doc_ref=E179%2F248%2F13&piece_id=26696 — Provides historical administrative context for Yatton, Lower Lye and Covenhope as places in the parish of Aymestrey; useful contextual evidence but not a manor boundary.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No defensible manor-specific polygon was located in the accessible evidence.
- The representative point is based on the documented Manor House/Manor Cottage at Yatton within Aymestrey, not on the modern parish centre.
- The 1599 survey may contain parcel or extent information, but the online catalogue does not expose its detailed contents or map boundary.