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This view looks west along the High Street past the Manor House on the right, a good 17th-century house with a tall gabled three-storey chamber wing.

Here on the left is the estate office of the Manor House, further up the lane.

suggested that the remains of Herstmonceux Castle form part of the oldest brick mansion in Britain; it was built in 1441, following a grant from the king to Roger de Fiennes to 'embattle' his manor-house

The manor house (known by locals as 'The Palace') was an E-shaped building facing north.

The Bishops of Rochester, who owned the manor of Bromley from 862 until 1845, maintained a palace here from the 10th century.

By 1066 Spott's former lands around Wales had been divided into several manors with scattered blocks of land.

At the end of the street is Manor Farm.

Its owes its name to a legend about a subterranean passage linking it with the monastery that stood on the site of Prideaux Place, the castellated mansion of the Lord of the Manor.

The setting of the 1664 Manor House is stunningly beautiful, as we can see here.

In the early 18th century the manor passed to Thomas Pitt, an enterprising businessman who made a lot of money by selling a valuable diamond to the Regent of France.

There was a castle here in the 12th century, and the family of Bruce were once lords of the manor.

Now in effect a suburb of Taunton, the village has a 1586 Elizabethan manor house.

By 1066 Spott's former lands around Wales had been divided into several manors with scattered blocks of land.

From the 13th century, the village was part of the huge 3000-acre manor estate of the de Bellerbys.

Canford Manor, not far from Wimborne, dates from the early years of the 19th century, though it stands on the site of an ancient house which once belonged to the Earls of Salisbury.

Witts was a 'Squarson' of the old sort, being both the Lord of the Manor and the rector of this lovely village in its exquisite pastoral setting.

The Domesday Book records that the manor of Fordingbridge possessed a church and two mills, and was rented at 14s 2d.

Sir Samuel Bignold, the man who made the Norwich Union a great insurance company, was lord of the manor here, but he did not live in the house.

Poynings is pronounced Punnings locally; the name comes from a family who held the manor here during the Middle Ages.

Some of the earthworks of the medieval fishponds opposite the Manor House can be seen in the foreground.

These cottages are just a few of around forty built around a triangular village green for the Wroughton Estate; some are known to have housed the workers at Wilcot Manor House.

However, near here at his manor of Glyndyfrdwy, Owain Glyndwr proclaimed himself Prince of Wales on 16 September 1400, so beginning his 9-year rebellion against English rule.

The town of Woodstock was once a favourite manor and hunting lodge for English kings.

Bexhill's ancient manor house was a retreat for the Bishops of Chichester in the Middle Ages, before passing into the ownership of several notable English families such as the Dorsets and Brooks