ASKERN MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The National Archives Manorial Documents Register record F245646 identifies Askern Manor in Campsall, Yorkshire, and the associated 1655–1660 Sheffield City Archives papers explicitly concern the legal claim that Askern was a separate manor from Campsall. Historical and gazetteer sources independently identify Askern as a manor within the former Campsall parish.
Representative point: 53.614685, -1.152194
Basis: documented_manor_house — Approximate location of the documented Manor House on High Street, Askern, DN6 0AB. The building is identified in Doncaster planning records as Manor House, High Street, Askern; the postcode containing the property geocodes to SE 56113 41346.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available online evidence establishes Askern as a distinct manor historically associated with the settlement of Askern within Campsall parish, but does not provide a sufficiently clear manor-specific plan, survey, rental map, enclosure map, or reconstructed perimeter. The modern Askern civil-parish boundary and the wider former Campsall parish cannot safely be substituted for the historical manorial extent.
Sources:
- The National Archives, Manorial Documents Register: Askern Manor, F245646: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F245646 — Registry record for ASKERN MANOR, located at Campsall, Yorkshire, authority/reference GB/NNAF/M170139.
- Sheffield City Archives record: legal papers relating to claim that Askern was a separate manor from Campsall, 1655–1660: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14345571 — Archive lead BFM 949–958 records the specific dispute over Askern's separate manorial status.
- Vision of Britain: Askern historical unit: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/not_found/ASKERN/place_page — Identifies ASKERN as a manor contained within the former Campsall ancient parish/civil parish unit.
- An account of Askern and its mineral springs: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/An_account_of_Askern_and_its_mineral_springs%3B_together_with_a_sketch_of_the_natural_history%2C_and_a_brief_topography%2C_of_the_immediate_neighbourhood_%28IA_accountofaskerni00lank%29.pdf — Nineteenth-century local history describes Askern as having Lords of the Manor and records the Manor-Well, supporting the location of manorial authority in Askern itself.
- Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council planning record: Manor House, High Street, Askern: https://doncaster.moderngov.co.uk/Data/Planning%20Committee/201006291400/Agenda/%24290610prp6%201.doc.pdf — Identifies a building called Manor House on High Street in Askern and places it close to the centre of Askern.
- DN6 0AB postcode map and geographic data: https://www.doogal.co.uk/ShowMap?postcode=DN6+0AB — Lists Manor House, High Street, Askern among the addresses in DN6 0AB and supplies the approximate coordinates 53.614685, -1.152194.
- Yorkshire Gardens Trust, Campsmount Park historic report: https://www.yorkshiregardenstrust.org.uk/sites/yorkshiregardenstrust.org.uk/files/database/Campsmount%20Park_YGT_Doncaster_Historic_report.pdf — Discusses the historical relationship between Campsall and adjacent manors including Askern, and identifies archive mapping for Campsall, Askern and Barnsdale, but does not expose a sufficiently defined Askern manor boundary for polygon reconstruction.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative coordinates are an approximate postcode-based point for the surviving property known as Manor House, High Street, Askern, rather than a surveyed building centroid.
- The current building is described in modern planning material as mid-nineteenth-century; the evidence does not prove that it occupies the medieval or early-modern manorial seat.
- No reliable manor-specific historical perimeter was found in the accessible evidence. Do not use the modern Askern civil-parish boundary, former Campsall parish boundary, or modern property boundary as the Askern Manor polygon.