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In 1936 the Air Ministry purchased Bawdsey Manor, and here Sir Robert Watson Watts led the team that developed radar - so crucial in the Battle of Britain.

He was born in Woolsthorpe Manor, an early 17th-century house, in 1643; Woolsthorpe is a hamlet immediately north-west of the village.

The Star in the High Street, built in the early 16th century, was a hostelry and resting place for abbots and monks from surrounding priories and manors and also for pilgrims.

Hipswell Hall is a 15th-century fortified manor house built for the Fulthorpe family, whose coat of arms is carved on the bay window to the right.

Harrogate also had its complement of hydropathic establishments including the Harrogate, the Cairn, the Harlow Manor and the Imperial Spa.

Again a much-changed view, this time looking into The Turnpike from Manor Road.

Nearby there is a village school and a couple of hotels, Moorhill House Hotel and Burley Manor Hotel.

visitors come to the church to see the 13th-century tomb of Ralph Wysham, his feet resting on a dog - which is supposedlyhow his body was found, feet resting on a favorite hound, when the Lord of the Manor

This fine gateway is 13th-century in style, but was rebuilt by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, who became Lord of the Manor in 1621.

Although belonging to the King, and known as the King's Manor, it was never used as a royal residence.

This beautiful view, seen from the path up the hill towards Miles Cross, looks north to the Manor House (top left) and its thatched 17th-century barn (right of centre).

At Domesday, the manor was held by the Abbot of St Benedict`s, Ramsey, and the parish had a population of about 150.

Near to the Three Peaks, Clapham's old Manor House (1701) is now used by the National Parks Centre.

These farm buildings belonged to Manor Farm, but are now being converted into houses (November 2004); the brick range at the left has an additional loft entry dormer.

Manor Farm, Barr Lane and the Anchor Inn are partly hidden by trees in the middle distance (left).

Colaton dates from at least Saxon times, and it was a royal manor at the time of the Domesday Book.

The 15th-century tower of the church stands on Norman foundations, and houses the tomb of the last abbot of St Augustine's abbey at Canterbury who, at the time of the Dissolution, was given the manor

The first radar research station was set up at the manor in 1936, and was used extensively to pick up raiding Luftwaffe aircraft during the Battle of Britain in 1940.

The original house on this headland, which was built by Philip Mansel, was demolished when Sir Rice Mansel built a comfortable manor house on the site in the 16th century.

The walls and buildings beyond belong to Welford Manor.

Standing above the east bank of the river Stour, Wye was a royal manor before the Norman Conquest, and was given by William I to Battle Abbey in Susses.

When the Domesday Book was being compiled, Kenilworth came under the jurisdiction of the royal manor of Stoneleigh.

The parish church of St James stands inside a banked enclosure that was once the Bishop of Lincoln's manor.

St Margaret's began as a leper hospital, possibly founded by Robert Fitz-Parnell, himself a leper, whose brother Robert, Earl of Leicester, held Kingston Manor from 1190 to 1204.