AUDLEBY MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The registry name and Caistor location correspond to the medieval vill and deserted settlement of Audleby in Caistor parish. Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer records Audleby as a medieval settlement in Caistor, states that it was granted to Thornton Abbey in the 12th century, and identifies surviving earthworks at the site. This is consistent with an Audleby manor record rather than a same-named place elsewhere.
Representative point: 53.5199, -0.3271
Basis: supported_manorial_centre — Approximate centre of the documented medieval Audleby deserted-settlement site, centred at OS grid reference TA 1101 0387. The site is the strongest surviving geographic proxy for the medieval manorial centre; the nearby Audleby House is an early-19th-century farmhouse and is not explicitly documented as the medieval manor house.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence establishes the location of Audleby and its historical association with Thornton Abbey, but does not provide a documented or reconstructable perimeter for the separate manorial landholding. The parish, Caistor soke, Thornton Abbey endowment, and modern property boundaries cannot safely be substituted for the historical Audleby manor extent.
Sources:
- Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer: Site of Audleby DMV, MLI50526: https://heritage-explorer.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Monument/MLI50526 — Identifies the medieval deserted settlement of Audleby in Caistor parish; records its 1086 population, 12th-century grant to Thornton Abbey, later decline, surviving earthworks, and centre at TA 1101 0387.
- Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer: Audleby House, Brigg Road, Caistor, MLI96754: https://heritage-explorer.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Monument/MLI96754 — Places the surviving Audleby farmstead near the deserted settlement at TA 1109 0394 and describes it as an early-19th-century farmhouse, not as a documented medieval manor house.
- Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer: Listed Building AUDLEBY HOUSE, 1166088: https://heritage-explorer.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Designation/DLI8804 — Provides the precise listed-building location of Audleby House at TA 11092 03949 and confirms its early-19th-century date.
- Historic England: Thornton Abbey, North Lincolnshire, Historical, Archaeological and Architectural Investigations: https://historicengland.org.uk/research/results/reports/5932/ThorntonAbbeyNorthLincolnshire_HistoricalArchaeologicalandArchitecturalInvestigations — States that Thornton Abbey's original Lincolnshire endowment included the vills of Thornton, Grasby, Audleby, Frodingham, Burnham and Helewell, supporting Audleby's medieval manorial/estate association with Thornton Abbey.
- Victoria County History of Lincolnshire, Volume 2: https://www.south-willingham.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/The-Victoria-History-of-The-County-of-Lincoln-Vol-2-1906.pdf — The digitised volume discusses Thornton's foundation endowment, including Audleby and its church, providing historical corroboration for the Audleby estate connection.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- No reliable historical map, survey, rental, enclosure record, or scholarly reconstruction located that defines the perimeter of Audleby Manor.
- The returned point represents the documented medieval Audleby settlement/manorial centre and should not be interpreted as the boundary or full territorial extent of the manor.
- Audleby House is geographically close and may represent later continuity of occupation, but the consulted sources do not establish it as the medieval manor house.