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

Often described as 'the most romantic and complete medieval manor house in England', Haddon Hall, the Derbyshire home of the Dukes of Rutland, is seen here on its limestone bluff overlooking the River

Sir Bourchier Palk Wrey, Lord of the Manor, had to obtain a £10,000 loan and a special Act of Parliament for the building of the Promenade Pier, which was opened on 15 May 1873.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

The Village 1901 This tiny, attractive hamlet close to the great manor house of Ightham Mote has one small shop, the Plough Inn selling beers brewed at Westerham near the county border, and

It was once a manor of the Bishop of Salisbury.

The Lucy Baldwin hospital was built in the 1920s, and farmer Peter Pratt recalls that when the river was in flood he had to get the night shift nurses over to the Manor House Annexe - this never flooded

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

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

In the 12th century, Sandsend was recorded as having 53 tenants' cottages belonging to the lord of the manor.

The first bridge on this site was a toll bridge built on massive timber supports in 1835; it was financed by the lord of the manor, William Ponsonby.

Beyond is the Old Manor, dating from the early 16th century.