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Pirbright, in Hogscross Lane, is an ancient manor and is mentioned in Domesday Book as being held by Chertsey Abbey.

Next to the church is the old manor house, with gardens running down to the river.

This extraordinary old manor house had been bereft of its famous author owner, Charles Dickens, for 24 years when this picture was taken.

The thatched cottages of one or one and a half storeys with dormer windows are more villagey in character: there are remarkably few thatched houses in towns, but in Alford even the Manor House is thatched

Court Lodge was the home of the lord of the manor.

They are about to pass East Barsham Manor, a gloomy, Gothic house which is said to be haunted.

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

Henry VIII stayed at the Archbishop's Palace (the manor house) on his way to the Field of the Cloth of Gold.

That said, the 18th-century Welford Manor, beyond the trees on the left, is built in stone.

Cakeham Manor House is a medieval palace of the Bishop of Chichester.

The fortified manor of the Wynn family, built at various stages from around 1490, is seen with carefully tended beds and wisteria and ivy-clad walls.

It was purchased by the town from the manor of Shirley in 1228 for ten silver marks—quite a bargain!

We are in a marshy area—Amberley Wild Brooks, beside the tidal and navigable River Arun.The castle was a fortified manor of the Bishops of Chichester; it was crenellated c1377 to defend the coastal

It was purchased by the town from the manor of Shirley in 1228 for ten silver marks - quite a bargain!

The one-time manor is sited very close to the M1 motorway, and the whole area has undergone considerable development because of the demand for housing within reach of London.

This timeless picture shows the quintessential English church and adjoining manor.

The latter commemorated the marriage of Miss Elinor Mary Triphine de Poher to the local landowner Frederick Joseph Weld of Chideock Manor.

Elizabeth gave one Chelmsfordian another cause to smile: in 1563, she sold the manor of Chelmsford to Thomas Mildmay.

The green was a more self-consciously contrived piece of villagescape at the gates of the manor house.

Downham is another example of a village which was tightly controlled by the lords of the manor, who refused to let industry into the village.

Sir Henry held the manor of nearby Sydmonton until his death in 1625, and it was his widow who was responsible for the splendid marble and alabaster tomb.

Irby Hall was built on the site of the ancient manor house of St Werburgh's Abbey, Chester.

The once thriving mill closed in 1947, and the Manor House, later used as a brewery, went in 1956.

The tiny church stands in the grounds of the huge manor house and park, and dates back to the late 13th century.