ALVINGTON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The exact manor is the Alvington manor of Alvington, Gloucestershire, historically associated with Woolaston because Alvington was a chapelry annexed to Woolaston. The supplied archive leads independently identify court rolls, estreats, court books, rentals and maps specifically as records of Alvington manor.
Representative point: 51.7038, -2.5655
Basis: documented_manor_house — Alvington Court at SO 61016 00718 is listed by Historic England as a sixteenth-century manor house or Priory Grange, now a farmhouse. It is the best surviving documented manor-house site associated with Alvington Manor.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: No reliable source located supplies a defensible perimeter for the historical manorial land. Evidence indicates that the manor estate included Alvington and associated demesne lands, mills, pastures and meadows, with additional holdings or rights in Aylburton and St Briavels parish. A local historical summary states that the estate comprised almost the whole parish in 1805, but that cannot safely be treated as the manor boundary, especially because the documented estate also included land outside Alvington parish.
Sources:
- Historic England: Alvington Court, List Entry 1186578: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1186578 — Identifies Alvington Court as a manor house or Priory Grange, gives its parish and National Grid Reference SO 61016 00718.
- British Listed Buildings: Alvington Court: https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101186578-alvington-court-alvington — Provides the converted coordinate for SO 61016 00718 as approximately 51.7038, -2.5655.
- Gloucestershire Archives accessions: Alvington manor court rolls: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/accessions/2003/03returns/03ac40.htm — Confirms Gloucestershire Archives holdings of Alvington manor court rolls for 1454 and 1477, corroborating the manor identity.
- British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue: Add Ch 71016: https://searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-002162435 — Describes extracts from court rolls of the manor of Alvington dated 1434–1530.
- Alvington History and Archaeology, Forest of Dean District Council: https://www.fdean.gov.uk/media/xktpcz4y/appendix-13-alvington-history-and-archaeology.pdf — States that the Alvington manor estate included Alvington Court Farm and that the estate comprised almost the whole parish in 1805; also discusses the Clanna estate and associated manorial lands.
- Gloucestershire History: Arthur Porter and Alvington Court: https://gloshistory.org.uk/sites/reprints/gh200417.pdf — Describes the site and main house of the manor of Alvington, its demesne lands, named pastures and meadows, mills, and associated lands and tithes in Aylburton and St Briavels parish.
- Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society: Woolaston parish records: https://www.bgas.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Record-Section-5-Parish-Records-of-Bristol-Gloucestershire-pt3-of-3-1.pdf — Records Woolaston with the chapelry of Alvington annexed, explaining the registry location of Woolaston for this Alvington manor record.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The registry location Woolaston reflects the historical ecclesiastical relationship between Woolaston and Alvington, not a conclusion that the manor was located in the separate settlement of Woolaston.
- Clanna Falls or Clanna Manor was a later principal residence and estate centre of the lords of Alvington Manor, but the house has been demolished and no sufficiently precise authoritative coordinate for its historical manor-house site was established.
- No historical manor boundary polygon should be injected from the modern Alvington parish boundary.