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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.

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

Going back to the beginning of the 19th century, Loakes Manor together with its park was sold in August 1798 to the Right Honourable Robert Smith, Lord Carrington, a prosperous banker and friend

Rothwell is an old town with a market charter from King John's reign.

Examples from west to east include Burton Park, Parham itself, Wiston Park, Firle Place and Folkington Manor. Some, including Parham, can be seen from the South Downs Way.

This beautiful view, seen from the path up the hill towards Miles Cross, looks north to the Manor House (top left) and its thatched 17th-century barn (right of centre).

Irby Hall was built on the site of the ancient manor house of St Werburgh's Abbey, Chester. The building dated from the early 17th century and was completely half-timbered.

On the edge of the village stands the black and white half-timbered Rufford Old Hall, owned now by the National Trust, but seat of the Hesketh family for about 600 years.

The photograph looks at the original village centre, with the Old House immediately behind the camera, and the parish pump out of shot to the right.

Built of honey-coloured sandstone, the old castle is in fact a 14th-century L-plan tower house built by the de Middleton family.

Without through traffic, this thousand-year-old village retains its rural traditions and sense of history. A century ago, West Burton was a lively farming village with a market and many shops.

This road formed the old parish boundary between Sutton and Cheam. At its southern extremity and the junction with Cheam Road was the site of East Cheam Manor and a dozen or so houses.

Old Place is a 15th- century manor house that was the home of the Apsley family. New Place is a stone farmhouse by the railway.

Here we see Warboys church, with the 17th-century Dutch-influenced manor house next door.

The old village of Ealing was south of the Broadway, with the parish church beyond Ealing Green.

Here we see a rural scene in a fold of the Downs - now much more wooded and obscured by trees. A stack yard is in the foreground, with round and rectangular corn ricks.

A medieval manor overlooked the deep valley; its porter's lodge and archway remain. All around here there were clay mines used for the steel furnaces.

On reaching the Old Mill, the footpath across the fields from Lyme becomes a double-hedged dirt track through a carpet of wild garlic into Uplyme village. 17th-century buildings and the wooden paddles

The Bookhams and Fetcham retain old cores amid the great suburban expansion which occurred after World War II; they are in effect western suburbs of Leatherhead across the River Mole.

It was known as the Crown until about 1810, when it was renamed in honour of the Goddard family, the lords of the manor of High Swindon.

greens; because it was all part of the Pudsay estate, there was no pressure to expand or to pull down and rebuild.The right-hand side of the building at the end of the path was at one time the old

The right-hand side of the building at the end of the path was at one time the old Court House.

Elizabeth gave one Chelmsfordian another cause to smile: in 1563, she sold the manor of Chelmsford to Thomas Mildmay. Three years later he was dead.

This fine old building houses a large water-mill, which like most of Norfolk's water-mills has a hidden undershot wheel.