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A neatly manicured gravel driveway in front of the manor house in Fulbourn.

A neatly manicured gravel driveway in front of the manor house in Fulbourn.

In the 12th century, Sandsend was recorded as having 53 tenants' cottages belonging to the lord of the manor. The area is known as Dunsley Bay, and Sandsend is really two villages.

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.

Evesham Abbey held the Manor of Ombersley for several centuries until the Dissolution, its abbots often residing there. In the early 17th century it came into the possession of the Sandys family.

Beyond is the Old Manor, dating from the early 16th century. It contains 17th-century panelling which originally came from Devon.

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

The stained glass window dates from that time as a memorial to the late lord of the manor and his wife.

Behind it is the old 17th-century manor house, now restored.

It was once a manor of the Bishop of Salisbury. Although this is Wiltshire, the design of these houses is very much Cheshire in style.

But the whole composition still sits comfortably on its more ancient foundations close by the old manor house.

St John's Church c1965 When the Domesday commissioners were doing their rounds in 1086, the most important royal manor in the area was at Unstone, which had its own church and a priest.

A pre-war motorcar of much character is parked outside 63 Manor Way on the corner of Chipstead Way, whilst a modern delivery van runs downhill towards Rectory Lane.

In the manor of Little Askrigg we find this road junction - if we go right, we reach Carperby (4 miles) and Leyburn (12 miles). Behind Woodburn House, left, was the village brewery.

Manor Road with its well-appointed suburban villas offered the Victorian and Edwardian idyll, an elegant and fashionable domicile for the early London commuter.

Here the village is seen from the churchyard, which adjoins a beautiful Jacobean manor house. The triangle with the phone box was once a grassy area where there were hustings at election times.

Much of England's social history can be explored by examining the manorial structure of villages such as Melcombe Bingham.

It boasts a fine barrel roof, a Norman font, the old stocks and a ruined effigy of the medieval lord of the manor, Sir Ralph de Blanchminster.

He was born in Woolsthorpe Manor, an early 17th-century house, in 1643; Woolsthorpe is a hamlet immediately north-west of the village.

The town is ancient, having been granted borough status in 1290 by the Lord of the Manor Hamon de Massey.

The architect who had planned Sir Walter Scott's home in the Scottish borders rebuilt Canford's manor in the 1820s.

In early days the royal manor of Lyndhurst was often granted to the queens of England. Henry III gave it to Eleanor of Castile, the wife of Edward I.

This castle was originally a fortified manor house built by Sir John de Broughton in 1306; battlements and a gatehouse were added by William de Wykeham in 1405.

The Manor House can be seen to the right. The centre of the town is starting to look spacious and elegant.