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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.

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

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.

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'.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

At the end of the street is Manor Farm.

The house dates from 1591, and stands on the site of a pre-Norman manor held by Dodo, a royal forester under Edward the Confessor and from whom the village takes its name.

During the period of 'Fence Month' - fifteen days either side of midsummer - the lord of the manor was instructed by to keep a watch on the bridge and challenge anyone entering or leaving the New Forest

This view looks in the opposite direction, east past the Manor House on the left with cottages and the former Ebenezer United Methodist Chapel of 1869 beside the raised and railinged pavement.

Buried in the graveyard now is Monsignor Ronald Knox, who lived for a time at the Manor. Siegfried Sassoon and Lady Violet Bonham Carter are also buried here.

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.

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.

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

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.

The old manor house on the site was replaced by the present building in 1853. Converted first of all into a country club, it became a hotel in 1964.

The college is built on land that once formed part of the ancient manor of Beckett. The War Office acquired the land in 1938 and set up an Artillery School here.

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.There is a large amount of wonderful medieval