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This view looks west along the High Street past the Manor House on the right, a good 17th-century house with a tall gabled three-storey chamber wing.

Here on the left is the estate office of the Manor House, further up the lane.

suggested that the remains of Herstmonceux Castle form part of the oldest brick mansion in Britain; it was built in 1441, following a grant from the king to Roger de Fiennes to 'embattle' his manor-house

The Bishops of Rochester, who owned the manor of Bromley from 862 until 1845, maintained a palace here from the 10th century.

By 1066 Spott's former lands around Wales had been divided into several manors with scattered blocks of land.

The manor house (known by locals as 'The Palace') was an E-shaped building facing north. The ground floor comprised a hall, a parlour, a buttery and a kitchen.

Its owes its name to a legend about a subterranean passage linking it with the monastery that stood on the site of Prideaux Place, the castellated mansion of the Lord of the Manor.

The setting of the 1664 Manor House is stunningly beautiful, as we can see here. The house was given a new wing in 1873, and is said to have been Victorianised.

In the early 18th century the manor passed to Thomas Pitt, an enterprising businessman who made a lot of money by selling a valuable diamond to the Regent of France.

At the end of the street is Manor Farm.

There was a castle here in the 12th century, and the family of Bruce were once lords of the manor.

Now in effect a suburb of Taunton, the village has a 1586 Elizabethan manor house. The church of St Peter and St Paul is unusual in having one of Somerset's octagonal towers.

By 1066 Spott's former lands around Wales had been divided into several manors with scattered blocks of land.

From the 13th century, the village was part of the huge 3000-acre manor estate of the de Bellerbys. Rievaulx Abbey also farmed some 43 acres of land near the village.

Canford Manor, not far from Wimborne, dates from the early years of the 19th century, though it stands on the site of an ancient house which once belonged to the Earls of Salisbury.

Witts was a 'Squarson' of the old sort, being both the Lord of the Manor and the rector of this lovely village in its exquisite pastoral setting.

The Domesday Book records that the manor of Fordingbridge possessed a church and two mills, and was rented at 14s 2d.

Sir Samuel Bignold, the man who made the Norwich Union a great insurance company, was lord of the manor here, but he did not live in the house.

Poynings is pronounced Punnings locally; the name comes from a family who held the manor here during the Middle Ages. Note the signs for Lyons Cakes outside Stephens' Stores.

Some of the earthworks of the medieval fishponds opposite the Manor House can be seen in the foreground.

Bexhill's ancient manor house was a retreat for the Bishops of Chichester in the Middle Ages, before passing into the ownership of several notable English families such as the Dorsets and Brooks

The palace was built by the 33rd Archbishop of York, Walter de Gray, in about 1250, using stone from a previous manor house that he had had demolished.

This grand manor house, now a hotel, was built during the Elizabethan period, but was considerably extended by its Victorian occupants.

Broughton is probably best known for its moated manor house, Broughton Castle, built in 1300 for Sir John de Broughton.