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Bosham was a royal manor owned by Earl Harold, later the last Anglo-Danish king of England, who is shown praying here before sailing for Normandy in 1064.

Ford was built as a manor house by William Heron in 1338, but it was quickly raised in status to a castle. By 1367 Ford had been integrated into English defence planning for the North.

Looking east from the drive to the Manor House and church, the village green in 1897 was all but submerged in tall trees. These have gone and there are much more modest trees in their place.

Woolworth's has a plaque reset in the parapet recording the building as a gift of 'John Fotherley, Esq, Lord of the Manor of Rickmansworth, Anno Domini 1812'.

Little has changed in this picture over the years – the farm cottage on the left and the Manor House, far right, remain, but the grocer's shop succumbed to supermarket competition and is now a private

Beyond, in its lee, is the good early 18th-century Manor Farm House.

The tiny church stands in the grounds of the huge manor house and park, and dates back to the late 13th century.

In 1906, the Caldy Manor Estate was split up into housing development plots for the wealthy.

At the crossroads is the stump of a cross, a reminder that in the 13th century, the then lord of the manor, Sir Walklyn Arderne, attempted but failed to found a market town here.

Now in effect a suburb of Taunton, the village is still distinctly a village architecturally, with its 1586 Elizabethan manor house, recently freshly yellow ochre colourwashed.

Here we look east from the bridge over the Misbourne along the backs of Manor Farmyard, now houses, the Red Lion pub and cottages beyond, a view now somewhat obscured by stables to one of the converted

It is dedicated to the former abbess of Minster, and in the earliest records Tenterden was part of the manor of Minster-in-Thanet.

Picturesque in its remarkably rural surroundings, its building materials include examples of a geological oddity: blocks of iron cemented gravel-stone (Fericrete), which is also to be seen in the base of Manor

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

Three manor houses, eighteen farms, a school and a church were demolished.

It is dedicated to the former abbess of Minster, and in the earliest records Tenterden was part of the manor of Minster-in-Thanet.

The lord of the manor, Hugh de Vere, Earl of Oxford, was granted a market charter in 1245.

It was purchased by the town from the manor of Shirley in 1228 for ten silver marks—quite a bargain!

Horeham Manor is noted for making Merrydown vintage cider.The village sign is in the left foreground of the picture.

Old Place is a 15th- century manor house that was the home of the Apsley family. New Place is a stone farmhouse by the railway.

After having been a steward's house, the manor house was restored in the 1830s for Lord Wriothesley Russell. The lodgings range became five cottages.

The money was provided by the de Veres, Earls of Oxford and lords of the manor, the Spring family, wealthy clothiers, and many others connected with the woollen cloth trade.

School Lane is just beyond the pub and the lane opposite leads to the Manor House (now the Thring Centre).

Upstream is Flint Mill (operational from 1772 to 1954, now converted to a house); this is the larger Thorp Arch Manor Mill, recorded in the Doomsday Book.