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The medieval manor house, Gawthorp Hall, was bought by the family, and John Carr was asked to design the new stables block.

Lady Roysia's manor of Newsells lay in the parish of Barkway.

In 1606 the Clifton family of Westby (3 miles to the north) purchased the manor and estate of Lytham from the Molyneaux family of Sefton for £4,300 and fanned the coals of patronage into a comforting

The parish church of St Mary the Virgin (centre) with its lofty belfry tower stands beside Granary Cottage and Long House (left) that were attached to Manor Farm.

When he died the country was still 90% Saxon; the Normans' policy, like the Romans', was 'divide and rule', with the majority of England's two million people subject to the Norman fist.

The manor house extension was added in 1614.

A small village on minor roads near to the Surrey border.

Legend relates that the lord of the manor of Tetbury was sailing across the Irish Sea when his ship was holed and began to sink.

The bridge was built in the mid 1500s at a cost of £70, and was paid for by Richard Sherburne, lord of the manor.

Pilkingtom Manor, mostly hidden by the trees on the left, was demolished in 1959, and today only the Dower House (the white gabled building in the centre of the photograph) survives.

The lords of the manor, who took their name from the village, came here in the time of Henry II; John, son of Ybri de Belaugh, had a large estate.

Edward, the Black Prince, once used the manor house.

The Great Barn, or Tithe Barn, is part of Barton Manor Farm, which comprises 8 or 9 buildings grouped around a large open courtyard.

In the 1920s the lord of the manor, Charles Hoskins Master, laid out the road to the railway station and built spectacularly convincing timber-framed shops with flats over.

Although originally part of the parish of Westmill, Gatesbury is now firmly within the parish of Braughing; it is named after the Gatesbury family, who held the manor from the late 1100s up to the 1400s

The owner and lord of the manor in 1893 was the Rev Sir William Hyde.

The square classical building with a pediment is Monkton Hill Wesleyan church, which stands on the site of the Black Horse (this inn is documented in 1750; it was built on land belonging to Monkton Manor

Canford House is Poole's manor house, which dates from 1450.

Canford House is Poole's manor house, which dates from 1450.

Burghurst manor house is opposite the church.

Industrialist Sir James Reckitt bought the manor in 1884 (it was demolished in 1932); being a Quaker, he refused to allow a pub in the village.

The picture was taken from Castle Hill, the site of an old manor house lookout, probably also used in Roman times during the construction of Wade's Causeway over the moors past Goathland.

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.

Outside at its east end is Wing's monument to William Fortrey, and close by is the 17th-century Fortrey manor house.