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In 1936 the Air Ministry purchased Bawdsey Manor, and here Sir Robert Watson Watts led the team that developed radar - so crucial in the Battle of Britain.

To the left is a former manor house, once the Urban District Council offices.

Now owned by the National Trust, Waddesdon Manor is a massive French chateau deposited on a windswept hilltop for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, famed for its superb porcelain collection, fittings

East Barsham's manor house was built by Sir William Fermor during the reign of Henry VII. Henry VIII was a guest there, and walked 2 miles barefoot to the shrine at Walsingham.

It served the Sutton New Town development to the east of Manor Park up to the Carshalton parish boundary. The road is now St Barnabas Road.

The manor or honour of Tottington covered 15 square miles, and was awarded to General George Monck (1608-70) for services to the Crown.

Barnsley was founded by the monks of St John's Priory, Pontefract, after they had been granted the manor and rights to hold weekly markets and annual fairs.

Two miles south of Congleton stands Little Moreton Hall, a magnificent moated manor house, originally built in the mid-15th century by Sir Richard de Moreton and added to by successive generations of his

Compton Castle, near Marlton in Devonshire, is a 14th-century manor house built without a moat, though the gatehouse came complete with machicolations.

To the right, the private steps (now lost) from the Manor Hotel led to their own promenade.

The rebuilt Manor House is nearby. The locality is excellent for rambling over the Downs.

Situated in the 270-acre grounds of Cobtree Manor, an Elizabethan house alleged to be the original of Mr Wardell's Dingley Dell in 'Pickwick Papers', this formerly popular family attraction was noted for

Alford is a most attractive small market town on the eastern edge of The Wolds, noted for its thatched Manor House in West Street, a 16th-century hall house with crosswings, all encased in brick in 1661

He was born in Woolsthorpe Manor, an early 17th-century house, in 1643; Woolsthorpe is a hamlet immediately north-west of the village.

The most attractive manor house on the left dates from the 18th century, but it is thought to have medieval origins.

The cricket ground is to the left in the distance, the Manor House in the centre and Christchurch spire to its right. At the right is the old rectory of 1870, now replaced by a 1960s' one.

He was born in Woolsthorpe Manor, an early 17th-century house, in 1643; Woolsthorpe is a hamlet immediately north-west of the village.

The Star in the High Street, built in the early 16th century, was a hostelry and resting place for abbots and monks from surrounding priories and manors and also for pilgrims.

This fine gateway is 13th-century in style, but was rebuilt by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, who became Lord of the Manor in 1621.

Again a much-changed view, this time looking into The Turnpike from Manor Road.

Nearby there is a village school and a couple of hotels, Moorhill House Hotel and Burley Manor Hotel.

Hipswell Hall is a 15th-century fortified manor house built for the Fulthorpe family, whose coat of arms is carved on the bay window to the right.

Although belonging to the King, and known as the King's Manor, it was never used as a royal residence.

visitors come to the church to see the 13th-century tomb of Ralph Wysham, his feet resting on a dog - which is supposedlyhow his body was found, feet resting on a favorite hound, when the Lord of the Manor