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The area round the medieval church is unspoilt; besides the church, which has a very recent eastern extension, there is a Victorian school and a fine 18th-century Manor House near the river.

It was in February 1909 that proposals were made under the Greater Birmingham Plan to annex Aston Manor, Erdington, Handworth, King’s Norton, Northfield and Yardley.

The old manor house of Frampton Court was demolished in 1939.

Mosley Street was named in honour of Sir Nicholas Mosley, a former Lord of the Manor of Manchester.

At its southern end sits the Manor House.

In the distance is the Manor House Hotel, the grandest in the town: in 1949 full board here cost no less than 42 shillings a day.

Thaxted`s craftsmen had slowly wrested the town from manorial control; their Guildhall, symbolically, stood on the site of the manor gates.

Where Heath Park Road (on the right) meets Brentwood Road and Slewins Lane (in the centre), meets Manor Avenue and Balgores Lane (on the left), is the Drill public house.

The partly Tudor Manor House is at the crossroads in the centre of the village, but at the east end is an equally fine house, Missenden House.

Sir Thomas Boteler, lord of the manor of Warrington, left provision in his will of 1526 to establish a school 'whereby men's sons might learn grammar to the intent that they might learn to know Almighty

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 villagers bought the green from the lord of the manor in 1969.

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

When this happened, bands of men were despatched to Loe Bar to dig a channel to drain off the floodwater, and the Corporation, in accordance with custom, presented the Lord of the Manor with a leather

With the manor, it formerly belonged to the abbey at Athelney, but it fell into disuse after the Dissolution until Sir Thomas Acland restored it in the 19th century.

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

The building on the right is the Manor House.

Begun as a manor house, Bishop Auckland was castellated around 1300, though much of the building shown here dates from the extensive alterations carried out in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The chapel of St Nicholas was built in the 1480s adjacent to his manor house by Sir James Tyrell.

Broughton Castle was built as a fortified manor house by Sir John de Broughton in the 14th century.

In 1541 a large manor house was constructed within the remnants of the old castle.

The Street at Lancing was originally part of the main route through North Lancing, but it became an access road after the creation of the manor ground and a by-pass route in the early 19th century.

The cottage on the right houses the Manor Road Stores.

The castle was originally a manor house belonging to the Bishops of Chichester; a licence to crenellate was granted in 1377.