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David I built a manor at Linlithgow, and next to it a church dedicated to St Michael. In 1301 Edward Longshanks set about rebuilding and heavily fortifying the palace.

Just along the road from Duntisbourne Abbots is the village of Duntisbourne Leer, named after the great Normandy Abbey at Lire which once owned the manor.

Inside the largely 15th-century building, beside memorials to the lords of the manor, the Leghs of Adlington, there are early 18th-century wall paintings in the spandrels between the

This lane leads from the main through road to the church and Manor House. The house on the left has been demolished, and the lane now has modern houses on both sides.

The lovely stone building on the extreme left is Manor Farm, which F C Beazley described in his book on Thurstaston as 'a little gem'; unfortunately, it has been demolished, and a rather incongruous-looking

In 1140 the Norman Lord of the Manor, Geoffrey of Limesey, built a church (probably on the site of a Saxon one) dedicated to St Leonard, patron saint of prisoners and, appropriately enough, of iron workers

This ruinous Jacobean manor house, about half a mile north-west of Forest Row, was built in 1631 for Sir Henry Crompton, MP for East Grinstead.

the Rose and Crown Hotel is a landmark on the main road through Wensleydale in the village of Bainbridge, once the 'capital' of Upper Wensleydale, which was known in the 12th century as the Forest and Manor

Opposite the well-known Miller of Mansfield hotel and pub, mainly Georgian with older parts, is the Goring Free Church, dated 1893, on the corner of Manor Road, still looking pretty fresh in this view

This was the earliest English settlement of the Knights Templar, who were given the manor in 1135. Cressing is known today for its medieval barns at nearby Cressing Temple.

Edward Gibbon, the historian who wrote 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', lived at the Manor House as a child.

The manor was granted to Robert Bannastre by Henry de Lacy in the 12th century.

The three-storey gabled Manor House dates from the 16th century and faces onto the bridge.

King Alfred had a royal manor here and King John granted the town a charter for a weekly market.

It was once a manor of the Bishops of Salisbury. This is the late 15th-century timber-framed Porch House, pictured about 20 years after its last restoration.

Further up the hill from the manor is the very fine war memorial, designed by Lutyens in c1920. The central column is crowned by the figure of St George and the Dragon.

The 17th-century mill at Harlow was part of the manor of Harlowbury. It was the main source of power to grind corn and other purposes for the parish at that time.

Bexhill's famous walnut tree began life within the manor grounds. Late in Victorian times the road was widened, and the tree became a prominent roadside landmark.

This village-like landscape is a reminder of the old centre of Kettering, which clustered around the Manor House and the church. There are now only a few gravestones left in the re-organised area.

In the cliff that was used for the mine there was a cave, Hob Holes: legend had it that a hob man, or goblin, lived there who could cure whooping cough.

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.

Old Swinford is a suburb of Stourbridge today, which represents a reversal of fortune: the Domesday Book (1086) recorded Stourbridge as part of the manor of 'Suineford'.

Torquay's inner harbour was built by Sir Lawrence Palk, son of Sir Robert Palk, who bought the manor of Torwood in 1768.

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