ACKTHORPE MANOR

Identity: likely — The supplied primary name and historical name correspond to Ackthorpe/Acthorpe, a documented medieval settlement and later hamlet in South Elkington, Lincolnshire. The location agrees with the registry location and associated place, while the supplied 1380–1499 court-roll references provide consistent medieval manorial evidence. The National Archives pages were not machine-readable during research, so the archival record contents could not be independently inspected.
Representative point: 53.3869, -0.0347
Basis: supported_manorial_centre — Centre of the documented Acthorpe medieval settlement, approximately at OS grid reference TF 3081 8958. The settlement is the strongest surviving geographic correlate for Ackthorpe/Hagthorp Manor. Acthorpe Farm House, at approximately TF 3084 8947, lies immediately within the same historic settlement area but is documented only as an eighteenth-century farmhouse, not definitively as the medieval manor house.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to late medieval period, corresponding broadly with the period of the cited court rolls, 1380–1499
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: Available evidence establishes the manor's association with Acthorpe/Ackthorpe in South Elkington and locates the medieval settlement, but does not provide a manor-specific boundary, estate map, rental map, survey, enclosure award, tithe map, or documented list of perimeter landmarks. The medieval settlement footprint and the modern civil-parish boundary cannot safely be treated as the territorial extent of the manor.
Sources:
- Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer: Site of Acthorpe Medieval Village, monument record MLI41161: https://heritage-explorer.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Monument/MLI41161 — Identifies the medieval settlement of Acthorpe in South Elkington, records medieval roads and cultivation visible from aerial photography, and gives the centred grid reference TF 3081 8958.
- Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer: Acthorpe Farm House, monument record MLI93008: https://heritage-explorer.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Monument/MLI93008 — Places Acthorpe Farm House at TF 3084 8947 and documents its location within the Acthorpe historic settlement area; the building is an approximately 1740 farmhouse, so it is not treated as a confirmed medieval manor house.
- Historic England-listed building record for Acthorpe Farm House: https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101063146-acthorpe-farm-house-elkington — Provides the precise listed-building coordinates approximately 53.3859, -0.0342 and confirms the building's eighteenth-century date.
- Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales: Ackthorpe: https://archive.org/details/comprehensivegaz01brab — Describes Ackthorpe as a hamlet in South Elkington parish, Lincolnshire, approximately two miles west of Louth.
- National Archives Discovery: Ackthorpe Manor record F291299: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F291299 — Registry authority record supplied for the exact manor; the page was access-restricted during research but is retained as the primary archival reference.
- National Archives Discovery: court rolls, DL 30/89/1208, 1211-13, 1216: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17762727 — Supplied archival research lead covering court rolls dated 1380–1408.
- National Archives Discovery: court roll, DL 30/89/1202: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17762728 — Supplied archival research lead covering court rolls dated 1381–1383.
- National Archives Discovery: court rolls, DL 30/90/1219, 1222, 1226-27: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17763189 — Supplied archival research lead covering court rolls dated 1416–1428.
- National Archives Discovery: court rolls, DL 30/91/1231-34, 1239: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17763397 — Supplied archival research lead covering court rolls dated 1433–1445.
- National Archives Discovery: court roll, DL 30/92/1262: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17764168 — Supplied archival research lead covering a court roll dated 1496–1499.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The identification is strong geographically but not fully confirmed from the underlying TNA catalogue text because the National Archives pages required JavaScript verification.
- The representative point is a historically supported settlement/manorial-centre proxy, not a confirmed manor-house location.
- No manor-specific historical boundary has been located; no polygon is returned.
- The Acthorpe medieval-settlement footprint, South Elkington civil-parish boundary, and modern property boundaries must not be substituted for the manor's territorial extent.