ASTON SANDFORD MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The record matches the Buckinghamshire manor historically known as Aston Sandford and Cold Aston. Local and historical evidence places Cold Aston in the same Aston Sandford manorial estate, while medieval inquisitions explicitly identify Aston Sandford as a manor. The supplied TNA record, alternative name, location, and associated place are therefore consistent with one exact manor.
Representative point: 51.7644, -0.9067
Basis: documented_manor_house — The Manor, Aston Sandford, a documented sixteenth-century manor house with medieval manorial associations, at OS Grid Reference SP 75546 07862 / approximately SP 755078.
Point confidence: high
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The evidence confirms the manor house, medieval park, historical name, and manorial status, but does not provide a sufficiently explicit mapped perimeter of the manorial land. The Aston Sandford parish or modern administrative boundary cannot safely be substituted for the historical manor extent.
Sources:
- The National Archives: Aston Sandford Manor, TNA/MDR record F241840: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F241840 — Registry identity and authority record supplied for Aston Sandford Manor, Buckinghamshire.
- Historic England: The Manor, Aston Sandford, list entry 1332899: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1332899 — Identifies the surviving manor house in Aston Sandford, describes it as a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century manor house, and gives National Grid Reference SP 75546 07862.
- Buckinghamshire Heritage Portal: The Manor, Aston Sandford: https://heritageportal.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/Monument/MBC21786 — Records a medieval park associated with Aston Sandford Manor at SP 7550 0780 and identifies it as part of Aston Sandford Manor.
- Buckinghamshire Heritage Portal: Aston Sandford historic environment overview: https://heritageportal.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/theme/tbc325 — Confirms the manor house, medieval moat, historic garden evidence, and medieval occupation associated with Aston Sandford.
- Mapping the Medieval Countryside: Inquisition relating to Aston Sandford, 1417: https://ipm-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/view/inquisition/20-633/637.html — Provides primary-source-derived evidence explicitly identifying Aston Sandford as a manor in Buckinghamshire and records its medieval tenure.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No reliable source located that supplies or reconstructs the complete historical manorial boundary.
- The representative point identifies the documented manor-house location, not the full extent of the medieval or early-modern manor.
- The supplied court rolls and reeve's accounts support the manor's documentary continuity but were not sufficient on their own to define a boundary polygon.