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The 15th-century tower of the church stands on Norman foundations, and houses the tomb of the last abbot of St Augustine's abbey at Canterbury who, at the time of the Dissolution, was given the manor

Colaton dates from at least Saxon times, and it was a royal manor at the time of the Domesday Book.

Manor Farm, Barr Lane and the Anchor Inn are partly hidden by trees in the middle distance (left).

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.

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

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.

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.

There were two inns, the Manor and the Plough, where cock-fighting took place until it was outlawed.

As lords of the manor, the Heskeths influenced village building, and were instrumental in draining the mosslands.

Now owned by the National Trust, Waddesdon Manor is a massive French chateau deposited on a windswept hilltop for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, famed for its superb porcelain collection, fittings

One of the best-recognised beauty spots in Rickmansworth, the Splash (the town ditch), which is being crossed by the Austin A40, had originally been part of the drive to Bury Manor House, whose gates can

Market House was built in 1698 to house the local wool market by Philip Sheppard, whose ancestor Samuel had bought the manor of Minchinhampton in 1651.

A long-blocked-up archway was reopened and its connecting chapel rebuilt in memory of the Lord of the Manor, General Lee, who had been a highly respected and 'generous patron' of the village church.

Michelham Priory was founded in 1229 as a house for thirteen Augustinian canons, who took over a Norman moated manor house.

comparison to the more prosperous churches of Cley and Blakeney; the 14th-century rebuilding was completed to the instructions of Sir William de Nerford and his wife Petronilla, owners of one of the local manors

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.

This enclosed square contains the well-preserved original village built around the old Manor House.

No restrictions existed in 1775 when the manor was demolished; much of the stone was used to build Old Hall Farm.

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.

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.

By the early 13th century it stood at the heart of the medieval village of Warrington, and adjoining the lord of the manor's castle.