ALLITHWAITE MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The exact registry record is corroborated by authoritative local manorial guidance identifying the manor as “Allithwaite or Wraysholme,” in the ancient parish of Cartmel and township of Lower Allithwaite, with court rolls dated 1541–1567. Historical accounts identify Wraysholme as the principal surviving manorial centre and link the manor to lands in Allithwaite and Flookburgh.
Representative point: 54.17085, -2.94631
Basis: documented_manor_house — Wraysholme Tower, the surviving late-15th-century fortified manor-house/tower associated with the manor, at OS grid reference SD 38325 75421.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early post-medieval manor, especially the period represented by the 15th- and 16th-century Wraysholme records
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: Sources establish the manor’s centre at Wraysholme Tower and indicate that its manorial lands, rents and services extended in Lower Allithwaite and Flookburgh. No reliable published manor map, perambulation, rental map, or explicit historical perimeter was located. The Lower Allithwaite township boundary and the ancient parish of Cartmel are not substitutes for the manorial boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Allithwaite Manor record F241579: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F241579 — Registry record supplied for Allithwaite Manor and authority reference GB/NNAF/M191770.
- Guide to the records of the Manor of Furness: https://elibrary.cumbria.gov.uk/content/internet/542/795/41263164645.pdf — Identifies “Manor Allithwaite or Wraysholme,” in Cartmel parish and Lower Allithwaite, and lists the 1541–1567 court-roll holdings.
- Allithwaite, Lower — Cumbria County History Trust: https://www.cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/township/allithwaite-lower — States that the Manor of Allithwaite was held by the Harrington family and that part of the estate, known as Wraysholme, was centred on a 15th-century tower house.
- Wraysholme Tower, Lower Allithwaite — Historic England, NHLE 1007154: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1007154?section=official-list-entry — Provides the documented location at OS grid reference SD 38325 75421 and confirms the surviving 15th-century pele tower at Lower Allithwaite.
- The Harrington Family, The Stanley Family and ownership of Wraysholme from the 12th to the 16th centuries: https://cplhs.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/3.-the-harrington-family-the-stanley-family-and-ownership-of-wraysholme-from-the-12th-to-the-16th-centuries-1.pdf — Summarizes the historical identification of Allithwaite/Wraysholme and records that the manor of Wraysholme, with demesne lands, rents and services, included holdings in Allithwaite and Flookburgh.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is well supported by the surviving Wraysholme Tower, but the historical manorial territory cannot be safely reconstructed as a polygon from the located evidence.
- The manor should not be equated automatically with the historic Lower Allithwaite township, the ancient parish of Cartmel, or any modern civil-parish boundary.