ASHLEY MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry record identifies Ashley Manor in Ashley, Cheshire, and the associated Cheshire Archives records are manorial presentments and suit rolls for the Ashley manor. The documented historic manor house is Ashley Hall Farm, formerly listed as Ashley Hall, north of Ashley village. Historic research identifies Ashley Hall Farm as a medieval manor that later became a smaller gentry house and records the Ashley estate, including the manor of Ashley and land in Ashley and Hale.
Representative point: 53.360889, -2.349000
Basis: documented_manor_house — Ashley Hall Farm, formerly Ashley Hall, is the documented historic manor house associated with the manor of Ashley. Historic England gives National Grid Reference SJ 76874 84942, corresponding to approximately 53.360889, -2.349000 WGS84.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence establishes the manor house and indicates that the Ashley estate included the manor of Ashley together with farms and land in Ashley and Hale, totalling about 1,200 acres in 1840. However, no authoritative online source located in this research supplies a mapped perimeter or sufficient parcel-by-parcel boundary evidence for the historical manorial extent. The Ashley civil-parish or township boundary must not be substituted for the manor boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Ashley Manor registry record F286808: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F286808 — Registry record for Ashley Manor, Ashley, Cheshire, authority/reference GB/NNAF/M312850.
- Cheshire Archives: Ashley manor presentments, 1616-1838: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17257724 — Archive reference D6915/4/1, described as presentments relating to the manor record.
- Cheshire Archives: Ashley manor suit rolls, 1806-1864: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17259209 — Archive reference D6915/4/4, described as suit rolls relating to the manor record.
- Cheshire Archives: Ashley manor presentments, 1839-1863: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N17259375 — Archive reference D6915/4/4, described as later presentments relating to the manor record.
- Ashley Hall Farm, Ashley - National Heritage List for England entry 1329655: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1329655 — Historic England identifies Ashley Hall Farm, formerly Ashley Hall, as a late sixteenth- to early seventeenth-century farmhouse with earlier historic significance, and gives NGR SJ 76874 84942.
- Historic Environment Baseline Report, Hulseheath to Manchester Airport: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/61e31352e90e0703731d3a9d/M169.pdf — States that Ashley Hall Farm is an important local example of a medieval manor that transitioned into a smaller gentry house, and that in 1840 the Ashley Estate included the hall, manor of Ashley, and farms and land in Ashley and Hale totalling 1,200 acres.
- Ashley Hall, Cheshire - coordinate reference: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4805460 — Associates Ashley Hall in Cheshire with OS Grid Reference SJ7687484942 and coordinates approximately 53.360889, -2.349000.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is safe to inject because it is based on the documented historic manor house at Ashley Hall Farm.
- No historical manor boundary polygon is returned; the available evidence does not justify treating the modern Ashley parish or township boundary as the manorial extent.
- The 1,200-acre figure describes the 1840 Ashley Estate, including land in both Ashley and Hale, and is not by itself a mapped boundary for the manor.