ASTON CHIVERY MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry name ASTON CHIVERY MANOR corresponds to the historically documented manor of Aston Chiverey in Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire. The Victoria County History records that at the end of the 12th century William de Clinton alienated 40 librates of land which subsequently formed the manor of Aston Chiverey. Local planning history independently identifies Chivery, south of Aston Clinton in the Chiltern Hills, as the separately created manor associated with Aston Clinton.
Representative point: 51.76666, -0.69583
Basis: settlement_proxy — Point located at Chivery Hall Farm within the Chivery hamlet/manorial area. No securely identified medieval manor-house site was found; Chivery is nevertheless explicitly documented as the surviving place-name and territorial remnant of the ancient manorial division.
Point confidence: low
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period: Medieval manor, chiefly documented from the late 12th century to its union with Aston Clinton manor in 1532
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence establishes that the manor consisted of 40 librates of land separated from Aston Clinton and associated with Chivery, south of Aston Clinton in the Chiltern Hills. Sources describe the historical location and later manorial union but do not provide a sufficiently explicit perimeter, mapped parcel schedule, manor map, or reconstructable boundary to justify a polygon. Modern parish, landscape-character, or hamlet boundaries have therefore not been substituted.
Sources:
- The National Archives Discovery: F241838: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F241838 — Registry record supplied for Aston Chivery Manor; used to confirm the exact TNA/MDR record identity.
- A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 2, 'The parishes of Aylesbury hundred: Aston Clinton': https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62779 — Authoritative manorial history states that William de Clinton alienated 40 librates of land at the end of the 12th century, which afterwards formed the manor of Aston Chiverey; it traces the manor until its sale in 1532, after which it was held with Aston Clinton.
- Aston Clinton Neighbourhood Plan, Buckinghamshire Council: https://www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/documents/9705/ACNP_ReferendumVersion_May_2018_0_1_WiAySJ5.pdf — States that William de Clinton separated Chivery from Aston Clinton as a new manor and places it south of the main village in the Chiltern Hills.
- Village History, Aston Clinton Parish Council: https://www.astonclinton-pc.gov.uk/community/aston-clinton-parish-council-15040/village-history/ — Confirms Chivery as one of the medieval manors historically associated with Aston Clinton and that it remains a distinct part of the modern Aston Clinton area.
- Chivery Hall Farm map and coordinates: https://mapcarta.com/W371715445 — Provides the representative coordinate 51.76666, -0.69583 for a named farm within the Chivery hamlet/manorial area; the coordinate is used only as a low-confidence settlement proxy, not as a proven medieval manor-house location.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The historical manor should not be equated with the modern Aston Clinton civil parish or with the present-day Chivery settlement boundary.
- No documented medieval manor house or surviving mapped manorial perimeter was located in the available evidence.
- The representative point is suitable only as an approximate geographic locator and should not be treated as the exact manor-house site.