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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.

The present Pendley Manor replaced a complex medieval and later house which burnt down in 1835.

Much of the land here was once the grounds of the manor house - the park and the gardens.

Situated in the 270-acre grounds of Cobtree Manor, an Elizabethan house alleged to be the original of Mr Wardell's Dingley Dell in 'Pickwick Papers', this formerly popular family attraction was noted for

This now allows access to the car park behind the manor house, some doors along. The post office is four doors down on the left. It still has a date stone of 1901 beneath the roof.

At the eastern edge, Overstone Manor, an elegant classical style 1930s building, is now a pub, restaurant and hotel.

Many years before Wargrave grew in popularity as a riverside village, Edith, wife of Edward the Confessor, held the manor, and at that time it was known as 'Weregrave'.

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.

The archway, dating from 1870, is in memory of Admiral Robert Mitford, who lived in Hunmanby Hall with its 56-acre park. His will provided coal and clothing for the poor of the village.

The view is little changed since the 1950s, apart from more parked cars. Sturrick House on the far left, once a temperance hotel, is 16th-century, but the ground floor frontage is 18th-century.

From the slopes of Quarry Hill, above Park Farm (centre), we look south-westwards to Golden Cap (left of centre) and Langdon Hill.

Near to the Three Peaks, Clapham's old Manor House (1701) is now used by the National Parks Centre. The original pigeon holes can still be seen in the gable ends.

In the 1920s the lord of the manor, Charles Hoskins Master, laid out the road to the railway station and built spectacularly convincing timber-framed shops with flats over.

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.

On the right, just behind where the lorry is parked, there is now a shopping precinct. There are still a variety of shops to be found here.

Whitehall is on the extreme left of this photograph, taken at this junction of Park Lane and The Broadway; the widening of the Malden Road has yet to take place.

There are several 18th-century houses along the edges of the green, which tapers south from Pitshanger Manor.

The manor of Barden lay to the south-west of Tonbridge. Barden Park House and its estate was in the possession of the Abrey family during the latter part of the 19th century.

At its east end, down by the River Wey, is a superb brick manor house of the 1680s, which has been much altered subsequently and is now divided into apartments.

Cars fill a single line of parking on the waste of the manor. The pavement is up and men are busy in front of Burden's shop.

The manor of Barden lay to the south-west of Tonbridge. Barden Park House and its estate was in the possession of the Abrey family during the latter part of the 19th century.

Going back to the beginning of the 19th century, Loakes Manor together with its park was sold in August 1798 to the Right Honourable Robert Smith, Lord Carrington, a prosperous banker and friend

He succeeded Alderman Thomas Miller as lord of the manor in 1865, and lived at Singleton Park. He had a great interest in land drainage, and he owned valuable antiques.

There is a good range of timber-framed houses on both sides, and in the distance are the walled grounds, more of a small park, of Mill House on the Appleford Road.