ASHINGTON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry record's Ashington, Somerset context matches the documented Ashington Manor at Ashington in the historic parish of Chilton Cantelo, Somerset. Historic England identifies the surviving Grade II* manor house as a 15th-century building of pre-Conquest manorial origin, historically associated with the de Curcelle and St Barbe families, and gives its location as National Grid Reference ST 56115 21473.
Representative point: 50.9910, -2.6266
Basis: documented_manor_house — Ashington Manor house, identified by Historic England at NGR ST 56115 21473; the decimal point is corroborated by the mapped Ashington Manor building location.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available web evidence establishes the manor house and confirms that 1707 tenant and jury records and a 1783 survey survive under Somerset archive reference AAHT, but the accessible catalogue entries do not provide a mapped perimeter, parcel schedule, acreage, or explicit boundary description. The modern civil-parish boundary, the historic ecclesiastical parish boundary, and the present 7.6-acre house grounds cannot safely be substituted for the historical manorial extent.
Sources:
- Historic England: Ashington Manor, Chilton Cantelo, List Entry 1056833: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1056833 — Identifies the exact Ashington Manor in Somerset, places it in Chilton Cantelo parish, gives NGR ST 56115 21473, and records its medieval and post-medieval manorial history.
- The National Archives Discovery: Ashington Manor registry record F253527: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F253527 — The supplied TNA/MDR record used to match the registry identity and authority reference GB/NNAF/M271564.
- Somerset Heritage Centre archive record: Ashington Manor jury list, 1707, AAHT/7: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14688849 — Confirms a surviving manor-related jury record for the Ashington estate or manor, but the catalogue entry does not expose territorial boundaries.
- Somerset Heritage Centre archive record: Ashington Manor list of tenants, 1707, AAHT/7: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14688850 — Confirms a surviving tenant list associated with Ashington Manor, potentially useful for future extent reconstruction, but no tenant-place list or boundary data is available in the accessible entry.
- Somerset Heritage Centre archive record: Ashington Manor survey, 1783, AAHT/173: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14691123 — Confirms the existence of a potentially important 1783 manor survey; the accessible catalogue entry does not provide its plan, acreage, parcels, or perimeter.
- Ashington Manor mapped building location: https://mapcarta.com/W1062616193 — Provides a decimal mapped location for the Ashington Manor building, consistent with the Historic England National Grid Reference.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The exact manor is the Ashington Manor estate centred on the historic manor house at Ashington, now within Chilton Cantelo parish; it should not be confused with the separate manor of Chilton Cantelo or with Ashington settlements in other counties.
- No historically defensible manorial perimeter could be recovered from the accessible evidence. A polygon should not be injected without examining the 1783 survey, the 1707 tenant list, or other mapped estate material.

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Identity: confirmed — The registry record's Ashington, Somerset context matches the documented Ashington Manor at Ashington in the historic parish of Chilton Cantelo, Somerset. Historic England identifies the surviving Grade II* manor house as a 15th-century building of pre-Conquest manorial origin, historically associated with the de Curcelle and St Barbe families, and gives its location as National Grid Reference ST 56115 21473.
Representative point: 50.9910, -2.6266
Basis: documented_manor_house — Ashington Manor house, identified by Historic England at NGR ST 56115 21473; the decimal point is corroborated by the mapped Ashington Manor building location.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available web evidence establishes the manor house and confirms that 1707 tenant and jury records and a 1783 survey survive under Somerset archive reference AAHT, but the accessible catalogue entries do not provide a mapped perimeter, parcel schedule, acreage, or explicit boundary description. The modern civil-parish boundary, the historic ecclesiastical parish boundary, and the present 7.6-acre house grounds cannot safely be substituted for the historical manorial extent.
Sources:
- Historic England: Ashington Manor, Chilton Cantelo, List Entry 1056833: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1056833 — Identifies the exact Ashington Manor in Somerset, places it in Chilton Cantelo parish, gives NGR ST 56115 21473, and records its medieval and post-medieval manorial history.
- The National Archives Discovery: Ashington Manor registry record F253527: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F253527 — The supplied TNA/MDR record used to match the registry identity and authority reference GB/NNAF/M271564.
- Somerset Heritage Centre archive record: Ashington Manor jury list, 1707, AAHT/7: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14688849 — Confirms a surviving manor-related jury record for the Ashington estate or manor, but the catalogue entry does not expose territorial boundaries.
- Somerset Heritage Centre archive record: Ashington Manor list of tenants, 1707, AAHT/7: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14688850 — Confirms a surviving tenant list associated with Ashington Manor, potentially useful for future extent reconstruction, but no tenant-place list or boundary data is available in the accessible entry.
- Somerset Heritage Centre archive record: Ashington Manor survey, 1783, AAHT/173: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14691123 — Confirms the existence of a potentially important 1783 manor survey; the accessible catalogue entry does not provide its plan, acreage, parcels, or perimeter.
- Ashington Manor mapped building location: https://mapcarta.com/W1062616193 — Provides a decimal mapped location for the Ashington Manor building, consistent with the Historic England National Grid Reference.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The exact manor is the Ashington Manor estate centred on the historic manor house at Ashington, now within Chilton Cantelo parish; it should not be confused with the separate manor of Chilton Cantelo or with Ashington settlements in other counties.
- No historically defensible manorial perimeter could be recovered from the accessible evidence. A polygon should not be injected without examining the 1783 survey, the 1707 tenant list, or other mapped estate material.