ASHOVER (PERSHALL) MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The Derbyshire archive identifies the Ashover manor of Pershall as the Old Hall moiety, also called Ashover Old Hall alias Pershall. Historical accounts independently connect Sir John Pershall with Eddlestow Hall in Ashover, while the Derbyshire Historic Environment Record identifies Eddlestow Hall as the site of the original manor house of Ashover. This is distinct from Eastwood Hall, which is documented as Ashover New Hall/Reresby manor.
Representative point: 53.1642, -1.5110
Basis: documented_manor_house — Eddlestow Hall Farmhouse, centred at OS grid reference SK 3278 6311, is recorded by the Derbyshire Historic Environment Record as a medieval manor-house site and the original manor house of Ashover. Eddlestow was held by Sir John Pershall in the relevant historical period, supporting its identification with the Pershall/Old Hall manor.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence establishes the manor-house location and states that the Pershall/Old Hall moiety contained approximately 250 acres in 1562, but no reliable source located in this research supplies a mapped perimeter or sufficiently explicit parcel-by-parcel boundary for the Pershall moiety. The 1816 Ashover manor survey and valuation is a useful research lead, but the accessible catalogue description does not distinguish or map the Pershall moiety sufficiently to justify a polygon.
Sources:
- Derbyshire Record Office, Manor of Pershall, Ashover: https://calmview.derbyshire.gov.uk/calmview/Record.aspx?id=DS%2FUK%2FM%2F3643&pos=14&src=CalmView.Persons — Identifies the manor as Ashover Old Hall alias Pershall and describes it as a distinct moiety of Ashover, containing approximately 250 acres in 1562.
- Derbyshire Historic Environment Record: Eddlestow Hall, Ashover (MDR5090): https://her.derbyshire.gov.uk/Monument/MDR5090 — Records Eddlestow Hall as a medieval manor-house site and the site of the original manor house of Ashover; gives grid reference SK 3278 6311.
- Magna Britannia, Volume 5: Derbyshire, Ashover: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Magna_Brittanica%3B_being_a_concise_topographical_account_of_the_several_counties_of_Great_Britain_%28IA_magnabrittanicab05lyso%29.pdf — Describes Ashover's Old Hall manor, its descent to the Pershalls, and distinguishes it from New Hall/Eastwood Hall.
- A Local Incident During the English Civil War: Eddlestow Hall: https://countryimagesmagazine.co.uk/featured/a-local-incident-during-the-english-civil-war/ — Identifies Eddlestow Hall as the property of Sir John Pershall in Ashover, corroborating the connection between Eddlestow and the Pershall manor.
- Derbyshire-Ashover-1816, Catalogue of British Town Maps: https://townmaps.history.ac.uk/townmap/derbyshire-ashover-1816/ — Records an 1816 survey and valuation of the Manor of Ashover and identifies the associated Derbyshire Record Office references D.59A/PO 20-21; it is a potential source for future boundary reconstruction.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The historical manor was a moiety or composite manorial interest rather than necessarily a single compact modern estate.
- Do not substitute the modern civil-parish boundary of Ashover for the Pershall manor boundary.
- Eddlestow Hall is the best-supported representative site, but the surviving sources do not establish a defensible polygon for the historical Pershall/Old Hall land.