ASPALL STONHAM MANOR

Identity: likely — The registry name, location and historical aliases correspond to the medieval and later manor of Stonham Aspal in Suffolk. The Suffolk Heritage parish study records Stonham Aspall/Stonham Antegan as the principal manor and separately records a sub-manor called Broughton, also known as Easke Stonham, Stonham Antigayne and Stonham Edmunds. The supplied aliases therefore appear to combine names used for the principal manor and its historically associated Broughton sub-manor, but all are geographically tied to Stonham Aspal.
Representative point: 52.19184, 1.11902
Basis: documented_manor_house — Broughton Hall, immediately beside St Mary and St Lambert church, is documented by Historic England as a farmhouse formerly serving as a manor house. Suffolk Heritage Explorer identifies it as a manor farmhouse and part of the church-and-manor-farm group. This is the best surviving documented manorial site associated with the supplied historical names, although the evidence most specifically relates to the Broughton sub-manor.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: Available sources establish the manor's location in Stonham Aspal and provide historical ownership and name evidence, but no reliable published manor map, rental plan, survey, enclosure record or other source was found that defines the perimeter of the manorial land. The modern parish boundary, measuring about 2,399–2,474 acres in nineteenth-century sources, cannot safely be substituted for the medieval or later manor extent.
Sources:
- The National Archives, Manor record F250326: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F250326 — Registry record supplied for the manor; the page confirms the TNA/MDR record reference but provides little searchable descriptive text.
- Suffolk Heritage Explorer, Stonham Aspal parish character and history PDF: https://heritage.suffolk.gov.uk/media/pdfs/stonhamaspal.pdf — Identifies Stonham Aspall/Stonham Antegan as the principal manor and records the associated Broughton sub-manor under the alternative names Easke Stonham, Stonham Antigayne, Stonham Edmunds and Broughtons, with historical ownership chronology.
- Historic England: Broughton Hall, Stonham Aspal, list entry 1033175: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1033175 — Describes Broughton Hall as a farmhouse formerly a manor house and gives National Grid Reference TM 13283 59430, from which the representative WGS84 point is derived.
- Suffolk Heritage Explorer: Broughton Hall farmstead record SAL 066: https://heritage.suffolk.gov.uk/Monument/MSF43736 — Identifies Broughton Hall as a manor farmhouse in Stonham Aspal, within a church and manor farm group, and cites the 1839 Stonham Aspal tithe map and apportionment as a historical land-map source.
- Suffolk Heritage Explorer: Broughton Hall moat record SAL 002: https://heritage.suffolk.gov.uk/Monument/MSF4228 — Records the medieval moat at Broughton Hall and describes the hall as a sixteenth- to seventeenth-century manor site immediately adjoining the churchyard.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The supplied aliases are not entirely specific to one institutional manor: Easke Stonham, Stonham Antigayne and Stonham Edmunds are listed by the Suffolk Heritage study as names of the Broughton sub-manor, while Stonham Antegan is also used for the principal Stonham Aspal manor.
- Broughton Hall is the strongest documented manor-house location, but the available evidence does not prove that it was the residence or territorial centre of every historical phase of the principal manor named in the registry.
- No defensible historical manor boundary polygon was found; no modern parish or administrative boundary has been substituted.