ASHOW MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The TNA/MDR record F246323 is specifically catalogued as Ashow Manor in Ashow, Warwickshire, with the historical forms Ashoe and Ashoo corroborated by associated Leigh estate/manorial records and historical references to the Ashow manor.
Representative point: 52.3291, -1.5431
Basis: settlement_proxy — Point at the historic Church of the Assumption of Our Lady and village core of Ashow. No defensible surviving manor-house site was identified; the church/village core lies within the area documented by the historical Ashow manor-and-parish mapping and is the most defensible proxy for the manorial centre.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Insufficiently specified; a 1776-1777 manor-and-parish map is documented but its boundary geometry was not available for reliable reconstruction.
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The existence of a historical map titled 'A Map of the Manor and Parish of Ashow' is confirmed in the Warwick District historic-environment appraisal, alongside the 1806 Ashow survey in the Leigh estate records. However, the accessible evidence does not provide enough mapped boundary detail to distinguish the historical manor extent from the parish or to construct a defensible polygon.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Ashow Manor, TNA/MDR record F246323: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F246323 — Exact registry record identifying Ashow Manor and its authority/reference GB/NNAF/M229369.
- The National Archives: Leigh estate rentals including Ashow-related manors: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14349526 — Leigh estate rental series dated 1488-1704, associated with the manorial records supplied for this exact record.
- The National Archives: 1806 survey, Leigh estate records: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14335557 — Catalogued 1806 survey, relevant to the historical landholding and extent of Ashow Manor, but without accessible boundary geometry.
- Thickthorn South-east Kenilworth Strategic Allocations Historic Environment Appraisal: https://www.warwickdc.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/2153/thickthorn_south-east_kenilworth_strategic_allocations_-_historic_environment_appraisal.pdf — Documents the 1776-1777 Matthias Baker 'Map of the Manor and Parish of Ashow' (WRO CRO Z142; SBTRO DR671/30), the 1843 Ashow tithe map, and related historical mapping.
- Warwickshire Historic Environment Record: Site of Rectory, Ashow: https://timetrail.warwickshire.gov.uk/detail.aspx?mode=usertext&monuid=WA2595 — Places a documented historic site immediately north of the Ashow church at grid reference SP 31 70, confirming the central historic village location used for the representative point.
- Church of the Assumption of Our Lady, Ashow, Historic England listing reference 1035266: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1035266 — Authoritative identification of the historic church in the Ashow village core; used as the geographic proxy because no manor-house site was established.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- Do not substitute the modern civil parish boundary for the historical manorial boundary.
- The documented 1776-1777 manor-and-parish map and 1806 survey indicate that better boundary reconstruction may be possible from the original archive documents, especially WRO CRO Z142, SBTRO DR671/30, and DR 18/30/2/20.
- The returned point is a settlement proxy, not a confirmed manor-house or estate-centre location.