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The castle was originally a manor house belonging to the Bishops of Chichester; a licence to crenellate was granted in 1377.

The Street at Lancing was originally part of the main route through North Lancing, but it became an access road after the creation of the manor ground and a by-pass route in the early 19th century.

Hulme Hall began life as a women's dining hall, and now plays host to a variety of social functions, minor exhibitions and fairs.

The cottage on the right houses the Manor Road Stores.

In 1541 a large manor house was constructed within the remnants of the old castle. It even incorporated a part of the curtain wall, gatehouse and great tower.

The road descends to Carter's Brook with Manor Farm on the left. It is interesting that in 1908 the telephone had already reached this remote spot.

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

Sturrick House, on the left, is an example, with its 18th-century rendered front concealing a 16th-century building, as does the stucco of the gabled house on the far right, Manor Farm House

Bishopsteignton was once a rich manor belonging to the Bishops of Exeter; in the 19th century it was producing thousands of tons of ball clay (so called because when dug it tends to ball up like ice cream

The original village was in front of the manor house: such was the power and influence of the local landowner in those days, that the settlement was demolished and rebuilt outside the park boundary.

It was in February 1909 that proposals were made under the Greater Birmingham Plan to annex Aston Manor, Erdington, Handworth, King’s Norton, Northfield and Yardley.

The village was established around the manor and three large estates; much of the land was owned by the Lennox family.

Its name is said to derive from a Saxon, Gromen (which translates simply as 'the man' or 'groom'), who built a moated castle where the 17th-century private house Groombridge Place now stands.

By 1920 Scarborough could boast no less than ten top hotels, including the 100-bedroom Pavilion and the 160-bedroom Manor Private. The telephone number for the Grand was Scarborough 11.

The freehold of the Butts was presented to the town by the Lord of the Manor is 1981.

Behind the Georgian Manor House are the stables used by three generations of the famed horse trainers, the Peacock family.

There is little detailed evidence on the number of people living at Twickenham during the Middle Ages but the manor of Isleworth, including Twickenham, seems to have expanded slowly during this

Although belonging to the King, and known as the King's Manor, it was never used as a royal residence.

Alford is a most attractive small market town on the eastern edge of The Wolds, noted for its thatched Manor House in West Street, a 16th-century hall house with crosswings, all encased in brick in 1661

North of the old windmill is the Manor House in mid seventeenth-century brick, which retains its original cross windows.

Maidstone Museum occupies the former home of the Wyatts, Chillington Manor House, a splendid red brick Tudor house.

Built on the site of a 9th-century royal manor house, Leeds Castle became a royal fortress on the accession of Edward I.

On the right are the flint walls to the grounds of the Manor House. The road now swings round into a car park, passing along the side of the Old Bakery.

Is it taken from the notion that the lord of the manor once bred cranes or herons for his table? Or that cranberries once grew nearby? 'Leah' is, however, a Saxon name for a clearing in a wood.