ANSTY MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry location and associated place identify Ansty in Warwickshire. The associated Warwickshire manor history records the Manor of Ansty, its medieval and early-modern ownership, manor house, rentals, surveys and court rolls. The present Ansty Hall was built in 1678 by Edward Tayler after the earlier manor house was demolished, making it the best surviving manorial site for this record.
Representative point: 52.4498, -1.4118
Basis: documented_manor_house — Ansty Hall, the surviving manor-house successor on the historic manor site. Historic England records its National Grid Reference as SP4007083696; the house was built in 1678 for Edward Tayler, replacing the earlier manor house.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern; exact period not established
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The evidence confirms that the manor included the settlement and associated agricultural lands around Ansty. Historical descriptions identify three large open fields—West or Hill Field, East Field and Sheaf Field—and associated meadow, pasture, common and arable land. However, no accessible source located in this research supplies a reliable, closed perimeter for the manorial land itself. The 1599 survey, 1490 and 1513 rentals, leases, court rolls and 1651 parliamentary surveys are strong archival leads but do not provide a verifiable mapped boundary in the available records. The modern civil-parish boundary cannot safely be substituted for the historical manor extent.
Sources:
- Ansty Hall, Ansty - Historic England listing 1365084: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1365084 — Official listing identifies Ansty Hall in Ansty, Warwickshire, at National Grid Reference SP4007083696, and describes the 1678 country house built for Edward Taylor.
- Ansty Parish History: https://www.anstypc.co.uk/history — Local historical account states that the earlier manor house was demolished in 1678 and the present Ansty Hall was built by Edward Tayler; it also describes the surrounding open-field agricultural landscape and manorial landholding.
- Walk 13: Withybrook Wander, Ansty and neighbouring villages: https://www.acoventryway.org.uk/wp-assets/pdf/21-walks/walk-13-rd-notes-231221.pdf — Historical summary records the Manor of Ansty, its ownership from the Stanhope family, transfer to the Earl of Shrewsbury and Dean and Canons of Windsor, purchase by Richard Tayler in 1659, and construction of Ansty Hall in 1678. It also describes the three village fields and their relationship to Ansty, Shilton and Barnacle.
- 1490 rental of Ansty Manor: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14355935 — Registry research lead for a 1490 manor rental held by Birmingham Archives, Heritage and Photography Service; relevant to reconstructing tenements and manorial extent but no mapped perimeter was available from the accessible record.
- 1513 rental of Ansty Manor: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14304321 — Registry research lead for a 1513 rental with nineteenth-century translation, Warwickshire County Record Office reference CR 285/6-7; potentially useful for identifying manorial holdings but no accessible mapped boundary was found.
- 1599 survey of Ansty Manor: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14319547 — Registry research lead for the 1599 survey, Warwickshire County Record Office reference CR 285/3; this may contain the best evidence for territorial extent, but the accessible catalogue record does not expose a verifiable boundary or map.
- 1651 parliamentary surveys of Ansty Manor: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14365750 — Registry research lead for three 1651 parliamentary survey copies, Warwickshire County Record Office reference CR 285/58/1, 3-4; no accessible mapped perimeter was available.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is safe for the manor's historical location, but it represents the documented manor-house site rather than the full manorial territory.
- No defensible historical manor polygon was found. Do not substitute the modern Ansty civil-parish boundary, the present hotel grounds, or the wider Ansty settlement for the manor extent.
- The identified open fields and surrounding agricultural lands establish territorial context but are not sufficient by themselves to reconstruct a closed manor boundary.