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Harrogate also had its complement of hydropathic establishments including the Harrogate, the Cairn, the Harlow Manor and the Imperial Spa.

The thatched cottages of one or one and a half storeys with dormer windows are more villagey in character: there are remarkably few thatched houses in towns, but in Alford even the Manor House is thatched

This extraordinary old manor house had been bereft of its famous author owner, Charles Dickens, for 24 years when this picture was taken. Dickens died here on 9 June 1870 at the age of 58.

Standing above the east bank of the river Stour, Wye was a royal manor before the Norman Conquest, and was given by William I to Battle Abbey in Susses.

When the Domesday Book was being compiled, Kenilworth came under the jurisdiction of the royal manor of Stoneleigh.

St Margaret's began as a leper hospital, possibly founded by Robert Fitz-Parnell, himself a leper, whose brother Robert, Earl of Leicester, held Kingston Manor from 1190 to 1204.

The parish church of St James stands inside a banked enclosure that was once the Bishop of Lincoln's manor. From here his estate of four nearby parishes was managed for more than five hundred years.

Court Lodge was the home of the lord of the manor.

The first radar research station was set up at the manor in 1936, and was used extensively to pick up raiding Luftwaffe aircraft during the Battle of Britain in 1940.

The original house on this headland, which was built by Philip Mansel, was demolished when Sir Rice Mansel built a comfortable manor house on the site in the 16th century.

The walls and buildings beyond belong to Welford Manor. Michael Ventris, the great archaeologist and decipherer of Minoan 'Linear B' script, is buried in the church yard at the end.

Next to the church is the old manor house, with gardens running down to the river.

Pirbright, in Hogscross Lane, is an ancient manor and is mentioned in Domesday Book as being held by Chertsey Abbey.

They are about to pass East Barsham Manor, a gloomy, Gothic house which is said to be haunted.

Cakeham Manor House is a medieval palace of the Bishop of Chichester. The shop is an estate agent's, a sign of the expansion in the housing market at this quiet coastal resort.

It was purchased by the town from the manor of Shirley in 1228 for ten silver marks - quite a bargain!

The fortified manor of the Wynn family, built at various stages from around 1490, is seen with carefully tended beds and wisteria and ivy-clad walls.

It was purchased by the town from the manor of Shirley in 1228 for ten silver marks—quite a bargain!

We are in a marshy area—Amberley Wild Brooks, beside the tidal and navigable River Arun.The castle was a fortified manor of the Bishops of Chichester; it was crenellated c1377 to defend the coastal

That said, the 18th-century Welford Manor, beyond the trees on the left, is built in stone.

The 15th-century tower of the church stands on Norman foundations, and houses the tomb of the last abbot of St Augustine's abbey at Canterbury who, at the time of the Dissolution, was given the manor

Henry VIII stayed at the Archbishop's Palace (the manor house) on his way to the Field of the Cloth of Gold. Around Ashford & Folkestone

The one-time manor is sited very close to the M1 motorway, and the whole area has undergone considerable development because of the demand for housing within reach of London.

Near to the Three Peaks, Clapham's old Manor House (1701) is now used by the National Parks Centre. The original pigeon holes can still be seen in the gable ends.