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Evesham Abbey held the Manor of Ombersley for several centuries until the Dissolution, its abbots often residing there.

King David I built the first manor house at Linlithgow, and the church of St Michael next to it.

Peasmarsh strings itself out along the main A268 road; its ancient centre of Norman church and Georgian manor house are isolated down a lane to the south.

This was the earliest English settlement of the Knights Templar, who were given the manor in 1135.

The Old Hall is on the site of the original manor house of the local Balguy family, from which it takes its name.

Clovelly's remarkable state of preservation is due to the philanthropic nature of the Hamlyn family, who acquired the manor in 1740.

A neatly manicured gravel driveway in front of the manor house in Fulbourn.

A neatly manicured gravel driveway in front of the manor house in Fulbourn.

Manor Road with its well-appointed suburban villas offered the Victorian and Edwardian idyll, an elegant and fashionable domicile for the early London commuter.

Here the village is seen from the churchyard, which adjoins a beautiful Jacobean manor house.

The stained glass window dates from that time as a memorial to the late lord of the manor and his wife.

Behind it is the old 17th-century manor house, now restored.

But the whole composition still sits comfortably on its more ancient foundations close by the old manor house.

Further up the hill from the manor is the very fine war memorial, designed by Lutyens in c1920.

The three-storey gabled Manor House dates from the 16th century and faces onto the bridge.

It was once a manor of the Bishops of Salisbury.

King Alfred had a royal manor here and King John granted the town a charter for a weekly market.

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

It boasts a fine barrel roof, a Norman font, the old stocks and a ruined effigy of the medieval lord of the manor, Sir Ralph de Blanchminster.

Much of England's social history can be explored by examining the manorial structure of villages such as Melcombe Bingham.

Opposite the well-known Miller of Mansfield hotel and pub, mainly Georgian with older parts, is the Goring Free Church, dated 1893, on the corner of Manor Road, still looking pretty fresh in this view

Inside the largely 15th-century building, beside memorials to the lords of the manor, the Leghs of Adlington, there are early 18th-century wall paintings in the spandrels between the

This ruinous Jacobean manor house, about half a mile north-west of Forest Row, was built in 1631 for Sir Henry Crompton, MP for East Grinstead.

the Rose and Crown Hotel is a landmark on the main road through Wensleydale in the village of Bainbridge, once the 'capital' of Upper Wensleydale, which was known in the 12th century as the Forest and Manor