ALNE AND TOLLERTON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The supplied TNA/MDR record, alternative name Alne (Manor), associated places Alne and Tollerton, and the surviving manor records all identify the single manorial jurisdiction named Alne and Tollerton in the historic North Riding of Yorkshire. The archive evidence specifically links the manor to Alne and Tollerton tenants, common rights, copyhold transactions and manorial courts.
Representative point: 54.0801, -1.2419
Basis: documented_manor_house — Alne Hall, Alne, is identified by Historic England as a former manor house standing on the site of the medieval Alne Hall, the country house of the treasurers of St Peter's York. Historic England gives the precise listing grid reference SE 49717 65187, converted here to approximately 54.0801, -1.2419 WGS84.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern manorial jurisdiction; surviving documentary leads principally date from 1609 to 1941.
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The evidence establishes the manor's historical centre at Alne Hall and its jurisdictional association with Alne and Tollerton. The 1609-1610 item is described as a rental or survey without a map, while the later records concern tenants, common rights, copyholds and court proceedings. The available evidence does not provide a documented manor perimeter or enough explicit boundary landmarks to reconstruct the historical manorial land accurately. The 1817 Tollerton plan is a township enclosure plan, not evidence that the entire township formed the manor's boundary, and therefore has not been substituted for a manorial polygon.
Sources:
- Historic England: Alne Hall, Alne - List Entry 1314925: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1314925 — Identifies Alne Hall as a former manor house, standing on the site of the medieval hall of the treasurers of St Peter's York, and supplies National Grid Reference SE 49717 65187.
- The National Archives: Manorial Documents Register record F242251: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F242251 — Registry record for Alne and Tollerton Manor, associated with Alne, Yorkshire, authority/reference GB/NNAF/M169297.
- University of York Borthwick Institute: Parish Records of Alne catalogue: https://www.york.ac.uk/media/borthwick/documents/catalogues/pr/a-parishes/Alne%20final.pdf — Describes the Manor of Alne and Tollerton and records seventeenth-century grants, waste land and transactions involving inhabitants and lands in Alne and Tollerton.
- North Yorkshire County Record Office catalogue: Tollerton enclosure material: https://archivesunlocked.northyorks.gov.uk/CalmView/GetMultimedia.ashx?db=Catalog&fname=05%5Cb9042b-bcba-4bb4-8c2e-d84c6e7fb747.pdf&type=default — Confirms the existence of an 1817 plan of the township of Tollerton in the parish of Alne; used as contextual evidence but not treated as a manor boundary.
- The National Archives: 1609-1610 survey/rental, LR 2/229: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14317089 — Surviving manorial research lead for a 1609-1610 survey described as rental only; no boundary map is identified in the available record.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is suitable for locating the manor's documented historical centre, but it should not be interpreted as the full territorial extent.
- No historically defensible manor polygon was found in the available evidence; do not substitute the modern civil parish, the former ecclesiastical parish, or the 1817 Tollerton township boundary.
- Alne Hall is a documented manor-house site, while the exact division of manorial and non-manorial lands within Alne and Tollerton remains unresolved.