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The Spinney, as the manor house of the parish of Sully, was sold at auction in 1938 as part of 164 acres of land that included Sully Island.

East of Throwley Road is Manor Park.

King John granted the manor of Rodney Stoke to Sir Osbert Gifford, and it was transferred by marriage to Sir Richard de Rodney.

The Napier family were, for three centuries until the early part of the 18th, lords of the manor here.

Beyond are the well-treed grounds of Manor Farm, where a large moat used to contain the manor house; this was demolished in 1770 and rebuilt outside the moat and fronting the main road.

The manor was held by the Rodney family of Rodney-Stoke for many centuries until it passed to the Somerville family by marriage.

Here the huntsman and his pack of beagles pass Manor Cottage and School Cottage with the main body of the hunt behind them: and at this time, there was not a sign of a hunt saboteur.

In 1931, the widow of Stafford Bourne (the son of one of the founders of Bourne & Hollingsworth's store in London) sold Garston Manor to Benskins the brewers, who transferred it to the North West Metropolitan

Robert Gernon held the manor, and his name is remembered in Gernon Road, home of the District Council Offices.

A lane leads south-west from the green by the former post office to St Paul's Church and Culham Manor.

Horton, the hamlet to the north-west of Epsom, was a separate village until the 17th century, when the lords of the manor moved to Woodcote Park.

Built around 1130, the Manor is supposed to be the oldest continuously inhabited house in Britain.

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For his defence of Ogmore Castle against the Welsh, Arnold de Boteler was awarded the manor of Dunraven by William de Londres.

The lake is part of the moat surrounding the timber-framed manor house, once the home of the de Southchurch family.

The lake is part of the moat surrounding the timber-framed manor house, once the home of the de Southchurch family.The central hall is open to the roof beams.A Tudor extension was added to the west

This part 16th-century timber-framed building is named after the Wylyot or Williot family, who held the manor in the mid 1300s as an outlier of the manor of South Mimms.

Ernard de Bois, lord of the manor of Clifton-on-Dunsmore, built the first chapel in Rugby around the year 1140.

Durhamford Manor is a large 15th-century half-timbered house.

The castle was a fortified manor of the Bishops of Chichester; it was crenellated c1377 to defend the coastal area and the river estuary.

Arnold de Boteler was awarded the manor of Dunraven by William de Londres as a reward for his defence of Ogmore Castle when it was attacked by the Welsh.

The Moat, or Moat House, is a splendid large manor house begun in Georgian times and surrounded, as the name suggests, by water.

This quiet enclave of art gallery, library and Manor House flanks the church.

The house is now the Gravetye Manor Hotel.