DAVENTRY MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry's primary name DAVENTRY MANOR and saved historical name Nether Manor match the Northamptonshire Historic Environment Record entry for Nether Manor in Daventry. The record describes a distinct mid-12th-century estate of 14 virgates separated from the Over Manor, later reunited with it under the Duchy of Lancaster. The Daventry location and the supplied TNA/MDR record are consistent with this identification.
Representative point: 52.2570, -1.1608
Basis: documented_manor_site — Northamptonshire Historic Environment Record monument 638/34 gives the Nether Manor site a centred National Grid Reference of SP 5744 6277, with the more precise reference SP 57447 62785 also reproduced in a planning-inspectorate heritage appendix. This corresponds to the historic Rumbellows area between the Ashby and Welton lanes, identified by Daventry Museum as the location of the Nether Manor estate.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to post-medieval; the estate originated in the mid-12th century and was incorporated into the wider Daventry estate by the late 14th century.
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence establishes the manor's location and states that its original estate comprised 14 virgates, but does not provide a defensible perimeter or parcel-by-parcel reconstruction. The identified Rumbellows location is a manor-site/estate-centre reference, not a documented boundary. No modern parish, civil-parish, ward, or town boundary has been substituted.
Sources:
- Northamptonshire Historic Environment Record: 638/34 - Nether Manor: https://her.northamptonshire.gov.uk/Monument/MNN115413 — Identifies the Daventry Nether Manor, records its origin as a 14-virgate estate separated from the Over Manor, gives location SP 5744 6277 / SP 57447 62785, and summarises its descent through the de Daventres, John of Gaunt, the Duchy of Lancaster, and the Finch family.
- Daventry Museum: Timeline: https://daventrymuseum.org.uk/learn/timeline/ — States that the Nether Manor was separated from the Over Manor in the mid-12th century and was situated in the Rumbellows, a close between the Ashby and Welton lanes.
- Grand Union Canal Transfer: EIA Scoping Report, Volume 3 Appendices: https://nsip-documents.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/published-documents/WA0210001-000015-GUCT%20EIA%20Scoping%20Report%20Volume%203%20Appendices.pdf — Reproduces the Northamptonshire HER entry and the precise NGR SP 57447 62785 for Nether Manor, distinguishing it from the separate Over Manor location.
- The National Archives: F278728: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F278728 — Supplied TNA/MDR catalogue record for the registry manor record used for identity cross-checking.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No reliable historical boundary map, survey, rental plan, enclosure plan, or mapped parcel schedule for the Nether Manor was located in the available evidence.
- The listed Manor House on Orchard Street is identified by Historic England as Drayton Manor and should not be used as the representative site for Daventry's Nether Manor.
- The representative coordinates are an approximate WGS84 conversion of the documented NGR and should not be treated as a surviving manor-house location.