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Formerly the manor house of about 1620, this fine red brick building is now itself deteriorating. Sashed windows, within stone surrounds under triple gables, grace a quietly elegant facade.

It is allegedly derived either from the name of the Lord of the Manor in the 12th century, 'de Sclotre', or from the quantities of sloe-trees which were a feature of the surrounding landscape

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

But the old manor house is a reminder that this is a very old site, dating back to the 16th century.

Manor Road joins the High Street by the pyramid roofed mid-19th century house, The Forge, in the distance. To the right, is a small wing with the date 1852 over a Gothic-style stone window.

King Henry VII spent some of his childhood at Raglan, where the two Williams had transformed a fortified rural manor into a castle fit for a future king.

Originally clustered around the church to the south, the hamlet was destroyed by a fire in the 17th century and the Manor Inn, built in 1871, is the focus of the 'new' village.

The project was probably part-financed by the Earls of Clare, who owned the manor. The elaborate north porch incorporates a chapel to the 14th-century peasant leader John Ball.

The building is ascribed to c1500, though successive lords of the manor added new wings, marked with their initials and armorial bearings.

The manor house, Heron Hall, was the home of the Tyrell family, many of whom are commemorated in East Horndon church.

West Bromwich boasts a remarkable survivor, Oak House, a magnificent 16th-century manor house. By 1894 it had fallen into disrepair.

Until incorporated into Birmingham in 1911, Yardley had been a rural Worcestershire manor for nearly 1,000 years, but only the church and a couple of timber-framed buildings survive from those days.

The manor is mentioned in the Domesday book, the detailed survey of property which was conceived by William the Conqueror at Christmas 1085 in Gloucester.

He was presented with the manors of Fenstanton and Hilton by the Earl of Northampton in payment for work at Castle Ashby.

On the left is the corner of the brick-fronted manor house. The top of the church tower fell in 1829, which gave it a castle-like appearance. It was not restored until the 1960s.

St Mary's was built in 1833 by lord of the manor William Ponsonby.

Despite its name, this is actually a fortified manor house, one of the best in the country, built in the 14th-16th centuries by the Gilbert family.

The college is built on land that once formed part of the ancient manor of Beckett. The War Office acquired the land in 1938 and set up an Artillery School here.

In the early 18th century the manor passed to Thomas Pitt, an enterprising businessman who made a lot of money by selling a valuable diamond to the Regent of France.

Rather like King's Norton, Moseley appears in Domesday Book as a berewick of the Royal Manor of Bromsgrove.

The old manor house on the site was replaced by the present building in 1853. Converted first of all into a country club, it became a hotel in 1964.

The palace was built by the 33rd Archbishop of York, Walter de Gray, in about 1250, using stone from a previous manor house that he had had demolished.There is a large amount of wonderful medieval

The manor house (known by locals as 'The Palace') was an E-shaped building facing north. The ground floor comprised a hall, a parlour, a buttery and a kitchen.

Buried in the graveyard now is Monsignor Ronald Knox, who lived for a time at the Manor. Siegfried Sassoon and Lady Violet Bonham Carter are also buried here.