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These cottages are just a few of around forty built around a triangular village green for the Wroughton Estate; some are known to have housed the workers at Wilcot Manor House.

However, near here at his manor of Glyndyfrdwy, Owain Glyndwr proclaimed himself Prince of Wales on 16 September 1400, so beginning his 9-year rebellion against English rule.

The town of Woodstock was once a favourite manor and hunting lodge for English kings. The Black Prince was born here.

Dinas Powis Tennis Club was founded in 1901, thanks to the generosity of General Lee as Lord of the Manor. Premises were amicably shared with the Bowls Club.

Dating from the end of the 13th century, technically it is not a castle at all, but a moated manor house, and it would have been very open to attack.

The Guests, who made their fortune in the South Wales iron industry during the industrial revolution, sold Canford Manor in 1923, when it became a public school.

Before becoming engulfed in the sprawl of Sittingbourne, Milton was a royal manor in its own right.

Osmington was an ancient manor founded at the time of King Athelstan, though the church we see today is mostly Norman.

Evesham Abbey held the Manor of Ombersley for several centuries until the Dissolution, its abbots often residing there. In the early 17th century it came into the possession of the Sandys family.

During the Civil War, the old manor house was the headquarters of the Parliamentarian army.

Although the medieval manor house of the D'Eyncourt family was demolished in the 1920s for road widening, the fine parish church remains.

Until incorporated into Birmingham in 1911, Yardley had been a rural Worcestershire manor for nearly 1,000 years, but only the church and a couple of timber-framed buildings survive from those days

Manor Road would not win any architectural awards; in fact, the picture could have been taken in any one of a hundred or so towns where similar houses were built.

The central trees hide Wargrave Manor with its parkland; further along the bank there are now a number of larger Edwardian and later houses.

This beautiful Elizabethan manor house is now the home of the Bagot family.

Next to them is the drive to Medstead Manor House. It was built in 1905 by Edmund Purefoy Ellis Jervoise, but by 1915 Lady Bradford was living there.

The Lord of the Manor here paid for Slaugham's telephone wires to be concealed underground so as not to spoil the appearance of the village.

It was in February 1909 that proposals were made under the Greater Birmingham Plan to annex Aston Manor, Erdington, Handworth, King's Norton, Northfield and Yardley.

At the end of the street, with the tall chimney, is the 15th-century Doverhay Manor, now Porlock's museum.

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'.

Right of the Westminster Bank stands Manor Court, which was built as a merchant's house in 1550; in the upper rooms, some ceilings still retain their fine plasterwork decoration.

The houses behind them are often mistaken for the Manor House because they look so impressive. They are private residences.

Bondgate gets its name from the area of the town where the bishop of Durham's bond tenants once lived; it was once a separate manor from Darlington.

The old manor house of Frampton Court was demolished in 1939. In 1840 its then owner dismantled a large portion of the village to improve his view.