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During the period of 'Fence Month' - fifteen days either side of midsummer - the lord of the manor was instructed by to keep a watch on the bridge and challenge anyone entering or leaving the New Forest

This view looks in the opposite direction, east past the Manor House on the left with cottages and the former Ebenezer United Methodist Chapel of 1869 beside the raised and railinged pavement.

The house dates from 1591, and stands on the site of a pre-Norman manor held by Dodo, a royal forester under Edward the Confessor and from whom the village takes its name.

Ecclesden Manor is a long, low Tudor-style house built in 1634.

Ferdinand de Rothschild who built Waddesdon Manor also reworked the village, this time choosing a picturesque Olde English style with lots of half-timbering and ornate chimney stacks.

The manor house dates back to the 13th century, and formed part of a large estate.

The Manor House (centre left) with its 19th-century brick façade is central to the market place.

To the left is the grey lias wall of Admiral Blake's home, Puriton Manor.

In the late 17th century the local freeholders and copyholders were happy to accept enclosure of their open-field system, and came to a private arrangement with Robert Williams of Balderton manor.

In 1140 the Norman Lord of the Manor, Geoffrey of Limesey, built a church (probably on the site of a Saxon one) dedicated to St Leonard, patron saint of prisoners and, appropriately enough, of iron

The present Pendley Manor replaced a complex medieval and later house which burnt down in 1835.

Situated in the shadow of the grand church of St Helen's, the castle, now in the care of English Heritage, originated as a Norman manor house; it ultimately become the property of the Breton La Zouch family

Parts of the original castle were incorporated into the 17th-century manor house.

The rebuilt Manor House is nearby.

In the manor of Little Askrigg we find this road junction - if we go right, we reach Carperby (4 miles) and Leyburn (12 miles).

It was brought back from Italy by Sir Hubert Miller, the Lord of the Manor; similar statues adorn many of the buildings in Upper Froyle, giving it the name 'The Village of the Saints'.

Combe Martin (or Combmartin as it was known until the 1890s) takes its name from Robert FitzMartin, the first lord of the manor, whose family retained the title until the 14th century.

Combe Martin (or Combmartin as it was known until the 1890s) takes its name from Robert FitzMartin, the first lord of the manor, whose family retained the title until the 14th century.

Tickenhill Manor at Bewdley was given to the Mortimer family by William the Conqueror, coming back to the Crown at the time of Edward IV.

This later photograph shows Manor Farm after the plaster had been removed from the timber frame, and also those 18th-century mansard-roofed cottages more closely.

farm land began to be sold off for development, and the village supports a post office and general store, together with two pubs - The Dog and Duck and The Ferguson Fawsitt, named after the lord of the manor

Bayons Manor was built by the uncle of Lincolnshire's famous son, Alfred Lord Tennyson.

It was here that the ancestors of George Washington were lords of the manor between 1183 and 1376.

The lofty tower of the 14th-century All Saints church rises behind the Archbishop's Manor House and grounds.