ASKWITH MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The exact TNA/MDR record F246468 is corroborated by the West Yorkshire Archive Service catalogue for the Weston Hall estate, which specifically lists a 1716 map of the Manor of Askwith, Askwith enclosure material, and court rolls for Weston and Askwith. This matches the registry location at Weston, Yorkshire and the supplied archive leads.
Representative point: 53.9308, -1.7447
Basis: documented_manor_house — The Grade II listed Manor House on Askwith Main Street is a documented historic manor house, dated 1681, within the historical Askwith manor settlement. Its published coordinates are approximately 53.9308, -1.7447 (OS grid SE1685748324).
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: 1716-1782
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: A map of the Manor of Askwith dated 1716 and an Askwith enclosure award dated 1782 are catalogued in the Weston Hall estate records. However, the accessible catalogue descriptions do not reproduce the mapped perimeter or provide sufficient parcel-level boundary evidence to construct a defensible historical manorial polygon. The modern civil parish or township boundary has therefore not been substituted.
Sources:
- The National Archives, Manorial Documents Register: Askwith Manor, F246468: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F246468 — Exact TNA/MDR record supplied for Askwith Manor, associated with Weston, Yorkshire.
- West Yorkshire Archive Service, Weston Hall Records (WYL639): https://www.catalogue.wyjs.org.uk/Record.aspx?id=LC01704&src=CalmView.Catalog — Catalogue description identifies a 1716 map of the Manor of Askwith, an Askwith enclosure award of 1782, and court rolls for Weston and Askwith from 1569-1807.
- West Yorkshire Archive Service, Map of the Manor of Askwith, 1716: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14250725 — Supplied archive reference for the 1716 manor map, held within the Weston Hall records.
- West Yorkshire Archive Service, Enclosure Collection Guide: https://www.wyjs.org.uk/media/203419/collection-guide-14-enclosure.pdf — Lists Askwith enclosure, 1779-1782, including map reference BDP104/27 WYL639/350 and award reference BDP104/27 QD5/3/Vol 2/1.
- Historic England, Manor House, Askwith, List Entry 1174208: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1174208 — Identifies the historic Grade II Manor House on Askwith Main Street, dated 1681, at OS grid reference SE1685748324; this supports the representative GPS point.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The representative point is supported by a surviving documented manor house, but the manor's historical land extent cannot be safely reconstructed from the publicly accessible catalogue descriptions alone.
- Askwith's modern civil-parish or township boundary has not been treated as the manor boundary.