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The Mitford family also owned nearby Lennox Manor until 1920.

A 17th-century manor house completes the idyllic

The building on the far right, Manor Farm House, has a rendered front concealing a jettied timber-framed house of about 1600.

This particular inn is said to have been so called because bear baiting used to take place nearby, although the sign was also that of the crest of the Savage family, who were lords of the manor of Frodsham

Ockley Manor is an 18th-century brick house, with a dovecote. Oldland post windmill is being slowly restored to a good state of repair.

The monument was erected in 1823 by the local lord of the manor.

The Castle Courtyard 1896 Within the medieval walls of the castle (or fortified manor house cum bishop’s palace) are the living apartments of the bishop: these are complex and varied ranges, with

This timeless picture shows the quintessential English church and adjoining manor.

The latter commemorated the marriage of Miss Elinor Mary Triphine de Poher to the local landowner Frederick Joseph Weld of Chideock Manor. The row of council houses is at Broadmead (left foreground).

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Examples from west to east include Burton Park, Parham itself, Wiston Park, Firle Place and Folkington Manor. Some, including Parham, can be seen from the South Downs Way.

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.

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'.

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

Downham is another example of a village which was tightly controlled by the lords of the manor, who refused to let industry into the village.

The green was a more self-consciously contrived piece of villagescape at the gates of the manor house.