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Within a few years Kingsbridge and the adjoining manor of Dodbrooke achieved borough status.

The Punch Bowl Inn was formerly known as the Covered Cup, a reference to the three chalices contained within the emblem of the Butler family, who held the manor.

The village probably dates from Saxon times, and it was a royal manor of King Athelstan, Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror.

It seems that the custom first acquired a jury in 1701, when it was composed of five young ladies: the four daughters of the lord of the manor, and the steward`s one daughter.

Standing on what was once a Roman site, the first manor house was erected in 1176 by William de Erleigh, whose family remained in possession for some 350 years.

Just down in the dale from Askrigg, on the banks of the River Ure, stands the ancient village of Bainbridge, once the capital of Upper Wensleydale, which was known in the 12th century as the Forest and Manor

The adjoining building, resembling a gabled manor house, incorporates the original monastic buildings that housed a small Benedictine nunnery.

It was built by the lord of the manor of Dogmersfield, Ellis St John, and remained as the St John/Mildmay residence until 1933.

The present God Begot House is Tudor, though it stands on the site of an ancient manor originally bequeathed by Emma, widow of King Canute, to the Priory of St Swithun in 1052.

The adjoining building, resembling a gabled manor house, incorporates the original monastic buildings that housed a small Benedictine nunnery.

The village below the Crag was once owned by Fountains Abbey, and was the site of a manor court. The Crag itself is probably Wharfedale's most famous landmark.

The 16th-century half-timbered Manor House in Vyne Road fronts directly onto the road, so that its striking architecture, including carved bargeboards on the gables, can be studied at close quarters.

Its old manor house was a temporary refuge for Charles I at the height of the Civil War, and the parish church stands on the site of an important Saxon monastery.

The almshouses were endowed in 1623 by Sir Edward More, lord of the manor of Odiham, which he leased from the Crown from 1587 to 1623.

The small medieval church with its double bellcote form a centrepiece to a few houses of interest, including the Rectory of 1827 and the old Manor House of 1700.

The well-known local Dowsett family gave this beautiful moated manor house to the town.

William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury, held the lordship of the manor through the reigns of Richard I, John and Henry III.

The Bishops of Rochester, who owned the manor of Bromley from 862 until 1845, maintained a palace here from the 10th century.

By 1066 Spott's former lands around Wales had been divided into several manors with scattered blocks of land.

The right to hold a market in the High Street was originally granted to the lords of the manor by Charles II, and afterwards confirmed by his brother James in 1685.

There was a castle here in the 12th century; the Bruce family were once lords of the manor. The present castle is a battlemented house dating from around 1800, and the seat of the Wharton family.

An ancient settlement whose manor, a mile inland, is mentioned in the Domesday Book, it looks completely different today. The hillside on the left is now heavily built up.

That great huntsman William I held the manor of Lyndhurst in his own hands after the land around was taken in as a hunting forest.

Now very much a part of north London, Southall boasts this attractive manor house, much used as the headquarters of a municipal department in recent years.