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The ugly Post Office (right) replaced the fine old granite building which was once the town house of the Trevenen family of Bonython Manor.

Palace Gate was the site of a former manor house – Odiham Place.

Woolbridge Manor is another Dorset building with Thomas Hardy associations, for it was here that Tess of the D'Urbervilles spent her short and disastrous honeymoon with Angel Clare.

The Manor of Lymington was created at the time of the Conquest, and was granted to Earl Roger of Shrewsbury.

Belbroughton parish contains parts of the three Domesday Manors of Belne, Brocton and Farfield.

In 1086 King's Norton belonged to the Royal Manor of Bromsgrove, remaining in the possession of the Crown until the beginning of the 19th century.

The village, 3 miles east of Bedale, grew up around Scruton Hall, and contains a church, a rectory and a manor house. Scruton Hall was built in the Queen Anne style; it was demolished in 1956.

A medieval manor house, Athelhampton was built in 1485 by Sir William Martyn, who became Lord Mayor of London in 1493.

Malmesbury Hospital, which was formerly the manor house, was rebuilt in the Tudor style in the late 19th century.

Before assuming the role of the first military town in Britain, Aldershot was no more than a pretty village comprising a church, a manor house and several farms, close to an area of open heathland.

Not far from Evesham, South Littleton is a lovely old village of pretty cottages, a manor house built in 1721, though attached to an even more ancient building, and a church that originally dated back

The land was given to the town in 1887 by the Lord of the Manor, Charles Marmaduke Middleton.

Church Lane leads to the original Botley church, now part of the Manor Farm complex of buildings and used for other purposes.

This photograph demonstrates very clearly the relationship between church and manor house in earlier times.

Edward Gibbon, who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, lived at the Manor House as a child.

Bell Court was originally the name of one of the six manors which made up medieval Bidford.

The distant chimney is that of The Manor House.

Thirteen miles from Norwich, Aylsham had a market by 1300, but really developed later when John of Gaunt held the manor.

King David I built the first manor house at Linlithgow, and the church of St Michael next to it.

Clovelly's remarkable state of preservation is due to the philanthropic nature of the Hamlyn family, who acquired the manor in 1740.

The Old Hall is on the site of the original manor house of the local Balguy family, from which it takes its name.

Peasmarsh strings itself out along the main A268 road; its ancient centre of Norman church and Georgian manor house are isolated down a lane to the south.

This was the earliest English settlement of the Knights Templar, who were given the manor in 1135. Cressing is known today for its medieval barns at nearby Cressing Temple.

The manor was granted to New Minster, later Hyde Abbey, at Winchester in 901, and the village subsequently became known as Abbotts Ann.