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North of the old windmill is the Manor House in mid seventeenth-century brick, which retains its original cross windows.

Maidstone Museum occupies the former home of the Wyatts, Chillington Manor House, a splendid red brick Tudor house.

Built on the site of a 9th-century royal manor house, Leeds Castle became a royal fortress on the accession of Edward I.

On the right are the flint walls to the grounds of the Manor House. The road now swings round into a car park, passing along the side of the Old Bakery.

Is it taken from the notion that the lord of the manor once bred cranes or herons for his table? Or that cranberries once grew nearby? 'Leah' is, however, a Saxon name for a clearing in a wood.

The commons were largely enclosed in 1855, but the pond area was retained by the lord of the manor, Lord Sackville.

Horeham Manor is noted for making Merrydown vintage cider. The village sign is in the left foreground of the picture. Passengers board the route 91 Southdown bus, en route from Uckfield to Eastbourne.

The rebuilt Manor House is nearby. The locality is excellent for rambling over the Downs. In the picture three children are dressed up in their best clothes and keep still for the photographer.

The present Pendley Manor replaced a complex medieval and later house which burnt down in 1835.

Situated in the shadow of the grand church of St Helen's, the castle, now in the care of English Heritage, originated as a Norman manor house; it ultimately become the property of the Breton La Zouch family

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.

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

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

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'.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the manor of Little Askrigg we find this road junction - if we go right, we reach Carperby (4 miles) and Leyburn (12 miles). Behind Woodburn House, left, was the village brewery.

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.

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.

He acquired the estate from his brother in the 12th century and changed his name to that by which the manor was already known.