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It was brought back from Italy by Sir Hubert Miller, the Lord of the Manor; similar statues adorn many of the buildings in Upper Froyle, giving it the name 'The Village of the Saints'.

Combe Martin (or Combmartin as it was known until the 1890s) takes its name from Robert FitzMartin, the first lord of the manor, whose family retained the title until the 14th century.

Combe Martin (or Combmartin as it was known until the 1890s) takes its name from Robert FitzMartin, the first lord of the manor, whose family retained the title until the 14th century.

Tickenhill Manor at Bewdley was given to the Mortimer family by William the Conqueror, coming back to the Crown at the time of Edward IV.

This later photograph shows Manor Farm after the plaster had been removed from the timber frame, and also those 18th-century mansard-roofed cottages more closely.

farm land began to be sold off for development, and the village supports a post office and general store, together with two pubs - The Dog and Duck and The Ferguson Fawsitt, named after the lord of the manor

Bayons Manor was built by the uncle of Lincolnshire's famous son, Alfred Lord Tennyson.

It was here that the ancestors of George Washington were lords of the manor between 1183 and 1376.

The lofty tower of the 14th-century All Saints church rises behind the Archbishop's Manor House and grounds.

The area round the medieval church is unspoilt; besides the church, which has a very recent eastern extension, there is a Victorian school and a fine 18th-century Manor House near the river.

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 villagers bought the green from the lord of the manor in 1969. In previous centuries West Burton was a busy industrial hamlet of hand knitters, dyers and wool combers.

Parts of the original castle were incorporated into the 17th-century manor house. The castle appears to have been rebuilt in the 18th century and repaired during the 19th century.

When this happened, bands of men were despatched to Loe Bar to dig a channel to drain off the floodwater, and the Corporation, in accordance with custom, presented the Lord of the Manor with a leather

With the manor, it formerly belonged to the abbey at Athelney, but it fell into disuse after the Dissolution until Sir Thomas Acland restored it in the 19th century.

Parts of the original castle were incorporated into the 17th-century manor house. The castle appears to have been rebuilt in the 18th century and repaired during the 19th century.

The building on the right is the Manor House.

Begun as a manor house, Bishop Auckland was castellated around 1300, though much of the building shown here dates from the extensive alterations carried out in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The chapel of St Nicholas was built in the 1480s adjacent to his manor house by Sir James Tyrell.

Broughton Castle was built as a fortified manor house by Sir John de Broughton in the 14th century. It was later acquired by William of Wykeham who converted the house into a castle.

In 1541 a large manor house was constructed within the remnants of the old castle. It even incorporated a part of the curtain wall, gatehouse and great tower.

The Street at Lancing was originally part of the main route through North Lancing, but it became an access road after the creation of the manor ground and a by-pass route in the early 19th century.

The cottage on the right houses the Manor Road Stores.

The castle was originally a manor house belonging to the Bishops of Chichester; a licence to crenellate was granted in 1377.