ASLOCKTON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The supplied MDR record, authority reference GB/NNAF/M223590, registry location at Whatton, and the associated 18th-century minutes and suit rolls identify the manor as the Aslockton manorial jurisdiction historically connected with the Whatton/Aslockton area. Local historical and archaeological sources document the associated manor-house site in Aslockton, including the former Cranmer family manor house.
Representative point: 52.95435, -0.89743
Basis: documented_manor_house — Nottinghamshire Historic Environment Record monument M1592 identifies the site of the medieval/post-medieval manor house known as Cranmer's House at OS Grid Reference SK 74150 40150. The site is now occupied by a modern farmhouse, but the HER explicitly identifies it as the manor-house site where Thomas Cranmer was born.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available online evidence establishes the manor-house location but does not provide a defensible polygon for the historical manorial landholding. The scheduled monument at Cranmer's Mound is an archaeological site associated with the manor and not a documented boundary of Aslockton Manor. The modern civil parish, chapelry, or conservation-area boundaries cannot safely be substituted for the manorial extent.
Sources:
- The National Archives, Manorial Documents Register: Aslockton Manor, F244275: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F244275 — Registry record supplied for the exact manor; records the MDR identity and associated location/context.
- The National Archives, DD/T/2/1: Aslockton Manor minutes, 1723-1771: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14265095 — Existing manor-record lead identifying surviving manorial minutes held by Nottinghamshire Archives.
- The National Archives, DD/T/2/3-4: Aslockton Manor suit rolls, 1757-1772: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N14259485 — Existing manor-record lead identifying surviving suit rolls for the manor.
- Nottinghamshire Historic Environment Record: M1592 - Manor house; 'Cranmer's House', Aslockton: https://her.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/Monument/MNT13429/ — Identifies the manor-house site at OS Grid Reference SK 74150 40150 and describes it as a medieval/post-medieval manor house site, now occupied by a farmhouse.
- A History of Nottinghamshire: Aslockton and Whatton: https://www.nottshistory.org.uk/books/Brown1896/aslockton.htm — States that Thomas Cranmer's father resided at the old manor-house at Aslockton and discusses the presumed manor-house site and associated Cranmer's Mound.
- Historic England: Cranmer's Mound, Aslockton, List Entry 1009306: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1009306 — Documents the associated medieval motte, enclosure, fishponds, ridge and furrow, and the traditional relationship with the Cranmer family home at Aslockton; it does not establish the boundary of the manor.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No reliable source located online provides the historical perimeter or mapped parcel extent of Aslockton Manor.
- The returned point is the documented manor-house site, not the centre of the full manorial territory.
- Cranmer's Mound and its scheduled-monument boundary must not be treated as the boundary of Aslockton Manor.