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Looking east from the drive to the Manor House and church, the village green in 1897 was all but submerged in tall trees. These have gone and there are much more modest trees in their place.

Woolworth's has a plaque reset in the parapet recording the building as a gift of 'John Fotherley, Esq, Lord of the Manor of Rickmansworth, Anno Domini 1812'.

Beyond, in its lee, is the good early 18th-century Manor Farm 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.

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

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

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

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

Built on the site of a 9th-century royal manor house, Leeds Castle became a royal fortress on the accession of Edward I.

Three manor houses, eighteen farms, a school and a church were demolished.

Picturesque in its remarkably rural surroundings, its building materials include examples of a geological oddity: blocks of iron cemented gravel-stone (Fericrete), which is also to be seen in the base of Manor

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

Horeham Manor is noted for making Merrydown vintage cider.The village sign is in the left foreground of the picture.

It is dedicated to the former abbess of Minster, and in the earliest records Tenterden was part of the manor of Minster-in-Thanet.

The lord of the manor, Hugh de Vere, Earl of Oxford, was granted a market charter in 1245.

There were two inns, the Manor and the Plough, where cock-fighting took place until it was outlawed.

As lords of the manor, the Heskeths influenced village building, and were instrumental in draining the mosslands.

Now owned by the National Trust, Waddesdon Manor is a massive French chateau deposited on a windswept hilltop for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, famed for its superb porcelain collection, fittings

One of the best-recognised beauty spots in Rickmansworth, the Splash (the town ditch), which is being crossed by the Austin A40, had originally been part of the drive to Bury Manor House, whose gates can

Market House was built in 1698 to house the local wool market by Philip Sheppard, whose ancestor Samuel had bought the manor of Minchinhampton in 1651.

A long-blocked-up archway was reopened and its connecting chapel rebuilt in memory of the Lord of the Manor, General Lee, who had been a highly respected and 'generous patron' of the village church.

Michelham Priory was founded in 1229 as a house for thirteen Augustinian canons, who took over a Norman moated manor house.

comparison to the more prosperous churches of Cley and Blakeney; the 14th-century rebuilding was completed to the instructions of Sir William de Nerford and his wife Petronilla, owners of one of the local manors

Upstream is Flint Mill (operational from 1772 to 1954, now converted to a house); this is the larger Thorp Arch Manor Mill, recorded in the Doomsday Book.