ASTON MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry's primary name ASTON MANOR, saved historical name Aston Tirrold (Manor), location Aston Tirrold, and TNA/MDR record F240772 identify the Aston Tirrold manor record. The documented Manor House on Aston Street is the best surviving manorial centre associated with this record. The modern county is Oxfordshire following the 1974 boundary reorganisation; historical sources and the registry correctly refer to Berkshire.
Representative point: 51.57094, -1.19801
Basis: documented_manor_house — The Manor House, Aston Street, Aston Tirrold, is a Grade II* listed late-17th-century manor house. Historic England gives National Grid Reference SU5567986090; the corresponding WGS84 position is approximately 51.57094, -1.19801.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: Available evidence confirms the manor house and describes associated estate land, including a later approximately 101-acre residential and agricultural estate, but does not provide a sufficiently clear historical perimeter for the manorial land itself. The 1808 enclosure maps cover Aston Tirrold parish and lands in Aston Upthorpe, not the boundary of this exact manor, so no polygon has been inferred from them. The medieval territorial divisions of Aston Tirrold also included distinct holdings such as Priors Manor and Danvers Manor, making substitution of the parish boundary unsafe.
Sources:
- The Manor House, Aston Tirrold — Historic England, National Heritage List for England entry 1369079: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1369079 — Identifies The Manor House on Aston Street, Aston Tirrold, as a Grade II* listed house and supplies NGR SU5567986090, supporting the representative point.
- The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 3, Parishes: Aston Tirrold: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3/pp452-457 — Authoritative historical reference for the manor, its ownership history and the historical parish/manorial context.
- Aston Tirrold and Aston Upthorpe Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Plan: https://www.southoxon.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Aston-Tirrold-Upthorpe-Conservation-Area-Appraisal-and-Management-Plan.pdf — Confirms the historical Berkshire context, the Aston Tirrold manor, the Manor House, and the existence of multiple historical landholding/manorial divisions; also records enclosure history.
- Map of the Parish of Aston Tirrold and Lands in the Hamlet of Aston Upthorpe, 1808 — Oxfordshire History Centre map index: https://www.oxfordshirehistory.org.uk/public/maps/tvmaps/tvmaps_A_B.htm — Documents the surviving 1808 enclosure maps, which are relevant historical geographic evidence but map the parish and Aston Upthorpe lands rather than the exact boundary of Aston Tirrold Manor.
- Aston Tirrold Manor, Country Life: https://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/an-oxfordshire-mansion-thats-been-a-much-loved-family-home-over-three-generations-and-five-decades-218286 — Links the present Manor House and surrounding estate to the historical Fuller ownership and reports a later estate of approximately 101 acres, useful as estate context but not sufficient to define the medieval manorial extent.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The registry location says Berkshire because Aston Tirrold was historically in Berkshire; the village is now in Oxfordshire following the 1974 local-government boundary changes.
- Do not substitute the modern civil-parish boundary for the manor boundary.
- The approximately 101-acre figure refers to a later residential/agricultural estate advertised with the Manor House, not demonstrably to the full historical manorial extent.
- Aston Tirrold had more than one historical landholding or manorial division, so the point identifies the registry's Aston Tirrold Manor record through its later manor-house association rather than proving that all historical Aston Tirrold lands belonged to this one manor.