ADLINGTON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry record identifies Adlington Manor in Adlington, Lancashire, and its associated 1521–1523 court-roll reference is a Lancashire manorial record. This is distinct from the better-known Adlington Hall manor in Cheshire. Lancashire historical accounts identify Adlington Hall as the seat of the Adlington manor estate, later acquired by the Clayton family.
Representative point: 53.602199, -2.625291
Basis: documented_manor_house — Former Adlington Hall, the historic seat of the Lancashire Adlington manor estate, stood at the site now identified as Adlington Park/Adlington Hall Farm. The hall was demolished in the 1960s, but its location is mapped at OS grid reference SD 5871 1191.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence establishes the manor-house/site location but does not provide a sufficiently reliable historical map, survey, rental plan, or explicit perimeter for the territorial extent of Adlington Manor. The reported 129-acre purchase by Wigan Corporation in 1921 describes a later estate holding, not necessarily the full historical manor. The modern parish or Adlington Park boundary cannot safely be substituted for the medieval or early-modern manorial boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Adlington Manor, MDR record F241709: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F241709 — Registry authority record for the exact Lancashire manor identified in this research.
- The National Archives: DL 30/78/1021, court rolls with other manors, 1521–1523: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14344007 — Existing registry research lead documenting early sixteenth-century manorial court records associated with the manor.
- Adlington Park, Lancashire, Gazetteer of British Place Names: https://gazetteer.org.uk/place/Adlington_Park%2C_Lancashire_388 — Identifies Adlington Park as the site of Adlington Hall, describes it as the former seat of the Adlington manor estate, and supplies location 53.602199, -2.625291 / OS grid SD 5871 1191.
- Focus on: The History of Adlington Hall, Lost Heritage: https://www.lostheritage.org.uk/graphics/pdf/Lancashire_AdlingtonHall_AdlingtonFocus_history_and_photo.pdf — Describes the Lancashire Adlington Hall estate, including the 1921 purchase of the hall and 129 acres by Wigan Corporation, and confirms the hall's historical continuity on the site.
- Adlington Hall Farm planning report, Chorley Council: https://chorley.moderngov.co.uk/documents/b40026/To%2520follow%252021st-May-2024%252018.30%2520Planning%2520Committee.pdf%3FT%3D9 — Confirms the surviving Adlington Hall Farm site in the rural Adlington area, east of Chorley Road, and distinguishes the present agricultural holding from the historical manor.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative coordinates identify the documented former manor-house site, not a surviving building.
- No defensible polygon for the full historical manorial territory was found.
- The 129-acre estate acquired in 1921 should not be treated as the complete historical manor boundary.
- Do not substitute the modern civil parish, Adlington Park, or the later agricultural holding as the manor boundary.