ALBOURNE MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry place-name and associated place are Albourne, Sussex, and the historical evidence identifies Albourne Place as the former manor house of Albourne Manor. This is distinct from the adjacent Bishopshurst Manor, which occupied the eastern part of the ancient parish. The supplied Wiston court books and rentals are consistent with a separately administered Albourne manor record.
Representative point: 50.9298, -0.2191
Basis: documented_manor_house — Albourne Place, Truslers Hill Lane, is the documented former manor house. Historic England gives its National Grid Reference as TQ 25249 15995; the returned WGS84 point is converted from that reference.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Not established
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: Available evidence establishes the manor-house location and indicates that Albourne Manor occupied the western of two historically distinct manors in the ancient parish, with Bishopshurst Manor to the east. However, no accessible manor map, rental map, survey, tithe/enclosure plan, or other reliable source was found that defines the perimeter of Albourne Manor's historical manorial land. The modern parish boundary and conservation-area boundary were therefore not substituted for the manor boundary.
Sources:
- Historic England: Albourne Place, including the former stables now part of the house, Albourne: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1192229 — Identifies Albourne Place in Albourne parish as a Grade II* historic house, formerly associated with the manor, and supplies National Grid Reference TQ 25249 15995.
- Mid Sussex District Council: Albourne Walk and Map: https://www.midsussex.gov.uk/media/1549/albourne-walk-and-map.pdf — Describes Albourne Place as an ancient manor and states that the present building dates from the fifteenth century.
- Mid Sussex District Council: Albourne Conservation Area material: https://padocs.midsussex.gov.uk/PublicAccess_Live/Document/ViewDocument?id=CD057B5C63E6483FB7DE7B590A053233 — States that the ancient parish contained two adjacent manors, Albourne to the west and Bishopshurst to the east; this supports identification of the correct manor but does not provide a complete boundary.
- Victoria County History of Sussex, Volume 6 Part 3: Albourne: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol6/pt3/pp130-131 — Authoritative county-history reference for Albourne's historical settlement and manor context; the accessible search record confirms the relevant Albourne entry, but no complete manor perimeter was available from the retrieved material.
- The National Archives: Wiston 5161, court book with index of tenants, 1687-1905: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14710848 — Archive lead supplied for the Albourne manor court-book tradition; the catalogue record is held by West Sussex Record Office under the Wiston archive.
- The National Archives: Wiston 5194, rental, 1760: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14712651 — Archive lead for an eighteenth-century rental associated with the Wiston manorial records; no mapped extent was available in the retrieved catalogue material.
- The National Archives: Wiston 5197, details of quit rents, 1782-1827: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14713282 — Archive lead for quit-rent material potentially relevant to the manor's tenurial extent; no boundary plan was available in the retrieved catalogue material.
- The National Archives: Wiston 5196, rental, 1800-1825: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14713863 — Archive lead for a nineteenth-century rental potentially capable of identifying constituent holdings; no mapped boundary was available in the retrieved catalogue material.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is suitable for locating the manor house and historical manorial centre, not for implying the extent of all former manorial lands.
- A defensible historical polygon could not be produced from the accessible evidence. The ancient parish, modern parish, conservation area, and estate grounds of Albourne Place must not be treated as the manor boundary.