ALRESFORD MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry's alternative name East Hall matches the Essex manor recorded in the Alresford manorial court-roll sequence. Local historical research states that Alresford Hall was recorded as East Hall from at least 1509, while an Essex Archives record describes the moiety of the Manor of Alresford and East Hall in Alresford and a mansion house at East Hall.
Representative point: 51.84443, 1.00825
Basis: documented_manor_house — Alresford Hall, Ford Lane, Alresford, is a documented early-eighteenth-century house of earlier origin, identified in local historical research with the manor-house site recorded as East Hall. Historic England gives National Grid Reference TM 07314 20489, converted here to decimal WGS84 coordinates.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Sixteenth to early seventeenth century documented extent indicators
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: Historical legal and estate descriptions identify substantial manorial property in Alresford, Frating, Thorrington, Stisted and Wivenhoe, including messuages, cottages, a water-mill, arable, meadow, pasture, woodland, furze and heath, marsh, rents, fishery and appurtenant rights. These descriptions establish territorial reach but do not provide a sufficiently precise perimeter for a defensible polygon. The manorial extent should not be substituted with the modern parish boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives Discovery: Alresford Manor record F247833: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F247833 — Registry record supplied for Alresford Manor and authority GB/NNAF/M240107.
- Essex Archives Online, D/DC 41/231: https://www.essexarchivesonline.co.uk/Result_Details.aspx?DocID=185673 — Describes the moiety of the Manor of Alresford and East Hall in Alresford and a mansion house recently erected at East Hall.
- History of Alresford, Essex, R. J. Butcher: https://www.alresfordparishcouncil.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/116/2025/02/AlresfordBookDraftRJButcherNovember26th2021.pdf — States that Alresford Hall was recorded as East Hall in manorial court rolls from at least 1509; summarizes the 1556 extent indicators across Alresford, Frating, Thorrington, Stisted and Wivenhoe.
- Historic England: Alresford Hall, List Entry 1111422: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1111422 — Documents Alresford Hall, Ford Lane, parish of Alresford, at National Grid Reference TM 07314 20489; describes the early-eighteenth-century house as being of earlier origin and associated with the Alresford Estate.
- Essex Archives Online catalogue records for Alresford manor court rolls and rentals: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14471423 — The supplied archive lead identifies the 1509-1518 Alresford manor court rolls, supporting the historical-name linkage between Alresford Manor and East Hall.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is based on the documented Alresford Hall/East Hall manor-house site, not the centre of the modern parish.
- The surviving evidence located establishes manorial holdings and rights in several settlements but does not expose a complete historical perimeter.
- No polygon is returned because a modern parish or estate boundary would not reliably represent the historical manorial extent.