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This village-like landscape is a reminder of the old centre of Kettering, which clustered around the Manor House and the church.

This village-like landscape is a reminder of the old centre of Kettering, which clustered around the Manor House and the church.

Note the Jacobean pulpit and the two brass candelabra; the smaller one dates from 1707, and the larger one, of about 1850, was sold to Croscombe church by St Cuthbert's in Wells when gas was installed

The ugly Post Office (right) replaced the fine old granite building which was once the town house of the Trevenen family of Bonython Manor.

The V Richardson shop is still a shop, but the next but one beyond, dated 1886, is now a house, the Old Bakery.

Not far from Evesham, South Littleton is a lovely old village of pretty cottages, a manor house built in 1721, though attached to an even more ancient building, and a church that originally dated back

The castle was a fortified manor of the Bishops of Chichester; it was crenellated c1377 to defend the coastal area and the river estuary.

The old-fashioned telephone kiosk and the telegraph pole opposite speak of a vanished era.

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

Built in 1806 and known as Burton Hall, this gracious old building was considerably altered in the 1900s by the new owners of the Burton Estate, the Gladstone family, who also changed its name to Burton

The 'Cuckoo Trail' for cyclists, walkers and the disabled connects Horam to Heathfield and Polegate via the route of an old railway.

These old thatched cottages were still standing in 1903.

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.

Just below the moors is this rustic old well in Heber's Ghyll.

This is a fine example of an old farming village - in 1974 it was declared a conservation area.

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

In the 12th century, Sandsend was recorded as having 53 tenants' cottages belonging to the lord of the manor.

When this photograph was taken from the end of the quay, the bridge linking Poole town and Hamworthy was only four years old.

This view, looking north along what is now the main A34 towards Alderley Edge village, shows where Welsh Row crossed the old turnpike, connecting the old enclosed fields on the plain with the open

The Bishops of Rochester, who owned the manor of Bromley from 862 until 1845, maintained a palace here from the 10th century.

Horton, the hamlet to the north-west of Epsom, was a separate village until the 17th century, when the lords of the manor moved to Woodcote Park.

That great huntsman William I held the manor of Lyndhurst in his own hands after the land around was taken in as a hunting forest.

The ancient village of Castle Combe is now famous for its motor racing circuit, but it still retains its old-world charm.

The 'Cuckoo Trail' for cyclists, walkers and the disabled connects Horam to Heathfield and Polegate via the route of an old railway.