ADLESTROP MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry name, historical spellings, Gloucestershire location, National Archives authority reference GB/NNAF/M225672, and the associated Adlestrop manorial court, rental, terrier, survey and enclosure records consistently identify the manor of Adlestrop in Gloucestershire. Historic England also connects Adlestrop Park with the manor and the Leigh family ownership from 1553.
Representative point: 51.93785, -1.64826
Basis: documented_manor_house — Adlestrop Park, formerly known as Adlestrop House, is the documented manor house associated with the manor. Historic England describes it as a reputed former barn converted into a house by William Leigh in the 17th century and gives National Grid Reference SP 24278 26653, converted here to decimal WGS84 coordinates.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Not established
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The evidence confirms the manor's location and records a 1775 Act concerning the division and enclosure of common fields and other commonable lands within the Manor of Adlestrop. The associated 1725 survey and later rentals may contain extent evidence, but the accessible catalogue descriptions do not provide a mapped perimeter or sufficient parcel-by-parcel boundary description. Historic England's approximately 75-hectare registered Adlestrop Park boundary is a designed-landscape boundary, not demonstrably the historical manorial boundary, and is therefore not substituted as a manor polygon.
Sources:
- Adlestrop Park and House, Adlestrop — Historic England Register entry 1000750: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000750 — Identifies Adlestrop Park as formerly monastic land associated with the manor, records Leigh ownership from 1553, describes the manor-house development, and gives NGR SP 24278 26653. It also states that the registered area is about 75 hectares, which is treated as a park boundary rather than a manor boundary.
- Adlestrop Manor — The National Archives Discovery record F241525: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F241525 — Registry record for the exact manor identification supplied by the user.
- Survey of Adlestrop Manor, 1725 — National Archives Discovery record N14325769: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14325769 — Confirms the existence of a manor survey that could potentially support reconstruction, but the catalogue record alone does not expose a mapped boundary.
- Adlestrop Inclosure Act 1775, 15 Geo. 3 c. 39: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acts_of_the_Parliament_of_Great_Britain_from_1775 — Records the Act confirming an agreement and award for dividing and enclosing common fields and other commonable lands and grounds within the Manor of Adlestrop.
- Adlestrop Park — Planning Data / Historic England reference: https://www.planning.data.gov.uk/curie/park-and-garden%3A1000750 — Provides the corresponding registered historic park and garden record; its extent is not treated as the historical manor extent.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No defensible historical manorial polygon was found in the accessible evidence.
- Do not substitute the modern civil-parish boundary or the approximately 75-hectare registered Adlestrop Park boundary for the manor boundary.
- The representative point is suitable for locating the manor but does not imply that the manor was limited to the manor-house site or registered park.