ASHBY WITH FENBY MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry primary name, saved historical name “Ashby cum Fenby”, Lincolnshire location, TNA/MDR record F292032, authority GB/NNAF/M317418, and the associated 1485–1547 court-roll and 1649 terrier references consistently identify the manor of Ashby cum Fenby in the Ashby cum Fenby locality, Lincolnshire.
Representative point: 53.4911, -0.1104
Basis: documented_manor_house — The Hall/Hall Farmhouse site on Ashby Lane is identified in local historical-archaeological material as the medieval and post-medieval manor and current hall site. Historic England records Hall Farmhouse at National Grid Reference TA 254010; the listed building includes an earlier rear range, while the adjacent listed well is locally known as the Roman Well.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval to early modern; extent not securely mapped by the available evidence
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: No authoritative manor map, rental map, survey, or parcel-level reconstruction was located that establishes the perimeter of this exact manor. A scholarly transcription of historical feudal evidence associates Ashby cum Fenby, Hole, Itterby and Brigsley with one knight’s fee held of the Honour of Lacy in 1210–1212, but this is not sufficient to define the later legal boundary of Ashby cum Fenby Manor and must not be substituted for a polygon.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Ashby with Fenby Manor, TNA/MDR record F292032: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F292032 — Registry-level record for the exact manor name and location.
- The National Archives: Court roll extracts, Ashby cum Fenby, 1485–1547, Eng MSS. 247: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17764004 — Existing archival research lead documenting court-roll material for the manor.
- The National Archives: Terrier of Ashby cum Fenby, 1649, GB 133 RYCH/3009: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17767596 — Existing archival research lead documenting a seventeenth-century terrier for the manor.
- Historic England: Hall Farmhouse, Ashby cum Fenby, list entry 1103526: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1103526 — Documents Hall Farmhouse on Ashby Lane at National Grid Reference TA 254010, supporting the representative manor-house location.
- North East Lincolnshire Council: Historic Settlement Archaeological Consultation Areas: https://www.nelincs.gov.uk/assets/uploads/2016/02/North-East-Lincolnshire-Historic-Settlement-Archaeological-Consultation-Areas.pdf — States that a large area around the medieval manor and current hall was converted into parkland and formal gardens, linking the manor site to the Hall area.
- Massingberd, Court Rolls of the Manor of Ingoldmells in the County of Lincoln, transcription page 23: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Massingberd_-_Court_Rolls_of_the_Manor_of_Ingoldmells_in_the_County_of_Lincoln.pdf/23 — Summarizes the 1210–1212 one-fee association with Ashby cum Fenby, Hole, Itterby and Brigsley and records a 1547 legal reference to the manor of Ashby cum Fenby.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is suitable for locating the manor site but is not evidence that the manor occupied the whole modern civil parish.
- The medieval one-fee description involving Ashby cum Fenby, Hole, Itterby and Brigsley is a feudal-holding reference, not a sufficiently precise boundary description for polygon injection.
- No historically defensible polygon was found in the available sources; boundary_points is therefore intentionally empty.