ALTON BARNES MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The supplied registry name and location match the documented Wiltshire manor of Alton Barnes, historically held with the associated estate of Shaw and granted to New College, Oxford in 1385. The National Heritage List independently identifies Alton Barnes Manor Farmhouse as the surviving manor-house/farmhouse site in Alton Barnes.
Representative point: 51.3566, -1.8448
Basis: documented_manor_house — Alton Barnes Manor Farmhouse, National Grid Reference SU 10807 62021, identified by Historic England as the surviving manor farmhouse. The WGS84 point is converted from that documented grid reference.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to modern historical estate
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: Sources establish that Alton Barnes Manor was historically associated with Shaw and that its New College demesne was managed as the composite Alton Farm estate, reported locally as approximately 600 acres. However, the available evidence does not provide a sufficiently traceable manor-specific perimeter or a documented polygon. The ancient parish boundary cannot safely be substituted for the manorial boundary.
Sources:
- Alton Barnes Manor Farmhouse, National Heritage List for England entry 1364708: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1364708/ — Identifies Alton Barnes Manor Farmhouse in Wiltshire, gives National Grid Reference SU 10807 62021, and describes it as an 18th-century manor farmhouse.
- The Acquisition of Alton Barnes as a New College Estate in 1385: https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/acquisition-alton-barnes-new-college-estate-1385 — Confirms the historical manor as Alton Barnes with Shaw and records its acquisition by New College, Oxford in 1385.
- Community History: Alton, Wiltshire: https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/Community/Index/5 — Describes the historical division of the Alton estates and the later composite demesne lands of Alton with Shaw Manor.
- Alton Barnes parish history and manor information: https://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/parishes/alton-barnes/ — Identifies the Manor House and Farm at Alton Barnes, records its long New College ownership, and reports the attached Manor Farm as approximately 600 acres.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No reliable manor-specific historical boundary map or parcel reconstruction was located.
- The historical estate included or was managed with Shaw, so the manor should not automatically be represented by the modern Alton civil parish boundary.
- The representative point marks the documented manor-house site, not the geometric centre of the full historical manorial lands.