ASTON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry identifies Aston Manor in Aston cum Aughton, Yorkshire. Local historical evidence places the manor house and manorial centre at Aston Hall, Aston, and identifies Aston Hall with the historic Aston manor estate associated with the Darcy family and later owners.
Representative point: 53.3627, -1.2977
Basis: documented_manor_house — Aston Hall, the historic manor house and centre of the Aston manor estate, now known as Aughton Court/Aston Hall Hotel. Historic England records the present house as built on the site of the earlier Darcy house; National Grid Reference SK 46904 85181.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Late eighteenth century, with later estate references to 1928
Boundary confidence: medium
Boundary basis: The 1789 sale notice describes the combined manors of Aston, Aughton, Netherthorpe and Hardwick, with Aston Hall, gardens, plantations, farms and four named woods, comprising upwards of 950 acres. Later evidence describes the Aston Estate as including Aston Hall, eleven farms, and the whole villages of Aston and Netherthorpe. These sources establish a substantial historical extent and associated places but do not provide a sufficiently explicit perimeter or map to reconstruct the exact manorial boundary. The described estate extent should not be substituted for the manor boundary.
Sources:
- The National Archives Discovery: Aston Manor, TNA/MDR record F243367: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F243367 — Registry record identifying the manor as Aston Manor in Aston cum Aughton, Yorkshire; authority reference GB/NNAF/M170069.
- Historic England: Aughton Court, formerly Aston Hall: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1314660 — Identifies the building as Aston Hall, later Aughton Court, and states that the present c.1772 house replaced the earlier Darcy house on the historic site; National Grid Reference SK 46904 85181.
- Aston All Saints Parish Church history: https://www.j31.co.uk/astonchurhistbook.htm — Describes Aston Hall as the historic seat of the lords of Aston Manor, records the Melton and Darcy ownership history, and refers to manor-related lands at Ulley and Hardwick.
- Rotherhamweb: About Aston, Rotherham: https://rotherhamweb.co.uk/district/aston.htm — Transcribes the 9 May 1789 sale description of the manors of Aston, Aughton, Netherthorpe and Hardwick, with Aston Hall and associated farms and woods exceeding 950 acres; also records the later Aston Estate sale including Aston and Netherthorpe.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No reliable historical map or explicit boundary description sufficient to define the exact perimeter of Aston Manor was located.
- The 1789 950-acre description concerns a combined group of manors and estate property, not demonstrably Aston Manor alone.
- Do not substitute the modern civil parish of Aston cum Aughton for the historical manor boundary.