AUDLEM MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The National Archives record F286815 is explicitly titled AUDLEM MANOR and places the manor at Audlem, Cheshire, matching the supplied registry name, location and authority reference GB/NNAF/M312857. Historical local evidence identifies an Audlem Manor House, later known as Taintree House, on Heathfield Road. Moss Hall is also described as a manor house in Audlem, but the available evidence does not establish that it was the principal house of the exact TNA manor record.
Representative point: 52.99017, -2.504508
Basis: documented_manor_house — Taintree House is identified in local historical material as the former Audlem Manor House and is located on Heathfield Road, Audlem. The coordinate is the published centroid for postcode CW3 0AU, which contains the Taintree House address; it should be treated as an approximate house-site coordinate rather than a surveyed building centroid.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available sources establish the manor's location but do not provide a defensible historical manorial perimeter. The documented extent of the ancient parish of Audlem, comprising Audlem, Buerton, Hankelow and Tittenley, cannot safely be substituted for the manor's territorial extent.
Sources:
- The National Archives: AUDLEM MANOR, record F286815: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F286815 — Exact TNA/MDR manor record title and associated place Audlem, Cheshire; authority/reference GB/NNAF/M312857.
- AudlemOnline: Important dates in Audlem's history: https://www.audlem.org/news/important-dates-in-audlems-history.html — States that in 1874 the Manor House became known as Taintree House.
- Audlem Parish Notes, University of Liverpool Cheshire Parishes database: https://cprdb.csc.liv.ac.uk/Notes/Parish/AUDL.html — Describes the ancient parish context and distinguishes the Audlem township from the wider ecclesiastical parish; useful as contextual evidence but not as a manor boundary.
- Map of postcode CW3 0AU: https://www.doogal.co.uk/ShowMap?postcode=CW3+0AU — Provides the approximate WGS84 coordinate 52.99017, -2.504508 for the postcode containing the Taintree House address on Heathfield Road.
- Historic England: Moss Hall, Audlem, list entry 1138519: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1138519 — Confirms a separate Grade I-listed early seventeenth-century manor house at Moss Hall, Audlem, and provides its precise location; considered as an alternative manor-house identification but not adopted as the representative point.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The exact surviving relationship between Audlem Manor and the historically named Manor House/Taintree House is supported by local historical evidence but not directly stated in the sparse TNA catalogue page.
- No reliable source located supplies a historical polygon or explicit manorial boundary for Audlem Manor.
- The postcode coordinate is approximate and should not be interpreted as a cadastral or building-footprint centroid.