AYNHO MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry name and location match the historic manor of Aynho in Northamptonshire. Historic evidence identifies Aynhoe Park as the manor house and records the Cartwright family's ownership of the manor and associated estate from the early seventeenth century. The supplied Northamptonshire Archives court rolls, rentals, accounts and presentments are consistent with this same Aynho manor record.
Representative point: 51.99333, -1.25333
Basis: documented_manor_house — Aynhoe Park, Round Town, is the surviving historic manor house of Aynho. Historic England identifies it as an early seventeenth-century country house built for the Cartwright family on the manor-house site; its National Grid Reference is SP 51366 33030.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Early seventeenth century to eighteenth century
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The evidence confirms a substantial manorial and estate holding centred on Aynhoe Park, including demesne closes, open-field parcels, meadows and parkland. The 1617 survey and the 1696/1720 topographical description of the lordship preserve detailed land and furlong information, while later sources refer to approximately 600–700 acres enclosed in the seventeenth century and a much larger eighteenth-century Cartwright estate. However, no accessible source supplies a complete, georeferenced perimeter of the historic manor itself. The registered Aynho Park boundary is a later designed-landscape boundary and cannot safely be substituted for the manorial boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Aynho Manor record F278619: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F278619 — Registry record for the exact manor entry identified as Aynho Manor, associated with Aynho, Northamptonshire.
- Historic England: Aynhoe Park, listed building 1040532: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1040532 — Identifies Aynhoe Park, Round Town, as the historic manor-house site; provides National Grid Reference SP 51366 33030 and describes its early seventeenth-century rebuilding for the Cartwright family.
- Northamptonshire Historic Environment Record: Aynho: https://her.northamptonshire.gov.uk/Monument/MNN3237 — References the 1696/1720 topographical description of the lordship of the manor of Aynho, the 1617 survey material, open fields, enclosure history and associated estate records.
- Hall, D., 'Aynho Fields, Open and Enclosed', Northamptonshire Past and Present 59: https://www.northamptonshirerecordsociety.org.uk/pdf/npp/number/npp-n59.pdf — Analyses the 1617 survey and 1696 map, identifies the open fields, demesne enclosures and approximately 89 acres of closes adjacent to the manor-house.
- Northamptonshire Historic Environment Record: Aynho Park: https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=1044&uid=MNN3241 — Records the manor-house and park history, Cartwright ownership, the 1696 survey, 1758 estate map, later enclosure, and the distinction between the parkland and the wider estate.
- Historic England: Aynho Park registered park and garden 1001025: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1001025 — Confirms the location of Aynho Park west of St Michael's church and describes the later designed park boundary; used as contextual evidence only, not as the manor boundary.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The surviving evidence establishes the manor-house location securely but does not provide a complete georeferenced polygon for the historic manorial territory.
- Do not substitute the modern civil parish, registered park-and-garden boundary, conservation area or later Cartwright estate boundary for the manor boundary.
- Aynhoe Park is the representative point; the later park is only part of the broader historic manor and estate.