ALKERTON AND EASTINGTON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The exact registry title and its historical variants correspond to the two medieval manorial estates of Alkerton and Eastington in Eastington, Gloucestershire. Historical evidence describes Alkerton Manor south of the River Frome and Eastington Manor north of it; later records and histories treat them together as the Eastington and Alkerton manorial estate.
Representative point: 51.75020, -2.31732
Basis: documented_manor_house — Site of the former Eastington manor house at Churchend, immediately west of the parish church. The moated manor house was documented from the fourteenth century and demolished in 1778. This is the clearest surviving geographic reference for the combined Eastington-Alkerton manorial record, although the associated Alkerton manor centre lay separately to the south of the River Frome.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern period; combined manorial record documented from at least the fourteenth century and continuing into the eighteenth century
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: Accessible evidence establishes a two-part historical extent rather than a recoverable perimeter: Alkerton Manor lay south of the River Frome, while Eastington Manor lay north of the river and included open-field areas such as Westlow or the West Field. The evidence does not provide a sufficiently explicit manor boundary, mapped parcel schedule, or reliable reconstruction from which to create a defensible polygon. The modern civil or ecclesiastical parish boundary has therefore not been substituted.
Sources:
- The National Archives, Manorial Documents Register: Alkerton and Eastington Manor, F246195: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F246195 — Exact registry record, primary name, historical variants and associated manorial records.
- A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 10, Eastington: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol10/pp123-139 — Victoria County History material identifies the separate Eastington and Alkerton manors, their demesnes, tenants and open-field holdings, and provides the historical context for their later joint treatment.
- Eastington Manor House, The Gatehouse Gazetteer: https://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/4470.html — Identifies the former moated Eastington manor house near the west end of the church and gives OS grid reference SO78190577, corresponding to 51.75020, -2.31732.
- Junction 13 Eco Park Heritage Assessment, Stroud District Council: https://www.stroud.gov.uk/media/plmj23n2/00407d-ridge-and-partners-llp_ecotricity.pdf — States that medieval Eastington was divided into two manorial estates, Alkerton Manor south of the River Frome and Eastington Manor north of it, and identifies Eastington manor open-field areas including Westlow or the West Field.
- Eastington Parish Character Assessment: https://eastington-pc.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2016/08/CA-Final-1-Intro-FC-corridor.pdf — Confirms the former Eastington Manor beside St Michael's church at Churchend, its demolition in 1778, and the historical setting of the manor site.
- Eastington’s Lost Manor House, Eastington Community News: https://ecnarchive.eastington.website/ecn157/manorhouse.html — Provides local historical detail on the moated manor house at Churchend, its location west of the church and its documented demolition in 1778.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The registry title appears to group two historically distinct but associated manors: Alkerton Manor and Eastington Manor.
- The representative point is the documented Eastington manor-house site, not a claim that the entire combined manorial territory was centred on that single location.
- No historically defensible polygon was identified. The River Frome provides a documented internal division, but the complete medieval or early-modern perimeter remains insufficiently established from accessible sources.
- The modern Eastington parish boundary, civil-parish boundary and settlement extent were not used as substitutes for the manorial boundary.