They want to own a junior-grade castle, or a manor house, or some modest little place where Shakespeare might once have staged a pageant for Great Elizabeth and all her bearded courtiers.

The main manor house is available for functions and is licensed for ceremonies.

Anne further honoured Churchill, after his leadership in the victories against the French of 13 August 1704 near the village of Blenheim ( German Blindheim ) on the river Danube ( Battle of Blenheim ), by granting him the royal manor of Woodstock, and building him a house at her own expense to be called Blenheim.

Among his other works is The Grey Room, the plot of which is centered on a haunted room in an English manor house.

Despite its name, the building is not actually a castle at all, but rather was a manor house built in 1830 by a local businessman named Arend.

Its landmark is the Domäne Blumenrod, a former manor house that has been restored and remodelled by the Limburg Free Evangelical community.

* Musée de la reine Bérengère, a museum of Le Mans history located in a gothic manor house.

Then he won a scholarship to Stowe School, quartered in an 18th century manor house.

In this plan, the manor house is set slightly apart from the village, but equally often the village grew up around the forecourt of the manor, formerly walled, while the manor lands stretched away outside, as still may be seen at Petworth House.

For example, when a grand new house was required by the new owner of Harlaxton Manor, Lincolnshire, in the 1830s, the site of the existing manor house at the edge of its village was abandoned for a new one, isolated in its park, with the village out of view.

This description of a manor house at Chingford, Essex in England was recorded in a document for the Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral when it was granted to Robert Le Moyne in 1265:

As with peasant plots, the demesne was not a single territorial unit, but consisted rather of a central house with neighbouring land and estate buildings, plus strips dispersed through the manor alongside free and villein ones: in addition, the lord might lease free tenements belonging to neighbouring manors, as well as holding other manors some distance away to provide a greater range of produce.

Elliott locates the chapel (" two myle henne " v1078 ) from the old manor house at Swythamley Park at the bottom of a valley (" bothm of the brem valay " v2145 ) on a hillside (" loke a littel on the launde, on thi lyfte honde " v2147 ) in an enormous fissure (" an olde caue ,/ or a creuisse of an olde cragge " v2182-83 ).

Topelius died in his manor house of Koivuniemi, in Sipoo, Finland, where he wrote his greatest works.

Under Johan Björnsson Printz, governor from 1643 to 1653, the company expanded along the river from Fort Christina, establishing Fort Nya Elfsborg on the east bank of the Delaware near present-day Salem, New Jersey and Fort Nya Gothenborg on Tinicum Island ( to the immediate southwest of today's Philadelphia ), where he also built his manor house, The Printzhof.

To the south by the river Stour, dating from the 15th century, is a single surviving tower of Caldwall ( or Caldwell ) Castle, a fortified manor house.

One evening in the autumn of 1531, Anne was dining at a manor house on the river Thames and was almost seized by a crowd of angry women.

Instead Tollemache appointed Anthony Salvin, who had a greater reputation and more experience, and who had already carried out work on the Tollemache manor house, Helmingham Hall in Suffolk.

William Brewster, a former diplomatic assistant to the Netherlands, was living in the Scrooby manor house, serving as postmaster for the village and bailiff to the Archbishop of York.

At about the same time, Brewster arranged for a congregation to meet privately at the Scrooby manor house.

The novel, like the real-life case, featured a wicked stepmother ( and former governess who married a gentleman ), a mysterious and brutal murder in a country manor house, a body thrown down a well, and characters fascinated by madness.

Château ( plural châteaux ; ) or chateau is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor or a country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally — and still most frequently — in French-speaking regions.

The manor house was situated behind the church and was the residence of the Leigh family.

The crypt is now inaccessible, but the church is the burial place of a Lord Mayor of the City of London, the armigerous Leigh family who were Lords of the manor and five of the six Archbishops of Canterbury who spent time at their residence nearby Addington Palace.

The manor house of Kennington remained a royal palace until the time of Henry VIII of England ; Kennington was the occasional residence of Henry IV and Henry VI, and Henry VII was here before his coronation.

The Archbishops of York had a residence and were lords of the manor.

Harpsund, a manor house in Flen Municipality, Södermanland County, has served as a country residence for the Prime Minister since 1953.

The German emperor Wilhelm II acquired Cadinen manor in 1898 and made it his summer residence.

A commoner can also refer to someone who, by right of landholding or residence, holds a common right in a given manor.

It replaced the old manor house as Dalyngrigge's main residence and the administrative centre of the manor.

The original manor house, built in 1877, was the weekend retreat and summer residence of the Hobart family.

* Harpsund manor, another official residence of the Swedish prime minister

The bishop had a residence in Stockton Castle, which was just a fortified manor house.

Bishop Bek, who preferred the town as his main residence over Durham Castle due to its proximity to hunting grounds, later converted the manor house into a castle.

Work on Valençay began again about 1540 thanks to Jacques of Estampes, lord of the manor of the feudal residence which existed at this place.

He took up residence in the Crown Prince's manor at Skaugum.

The building was originally a part of the manor assembly ( called the Castle ), which in turn was the residence of the owners of Chrzanów.

The manor house, residence of the Lord of the Manor | lord, can be seen in the mid-southern part of the manor, near the parish church and parsonage

In 2009, SCARE for a CURE, now sponsored by Richard Garriott but still under the direction of Jarrett Crippen, was held in Garriott's unfinished manor about half mile from the original manor, which he has dubbed Britannia Manor Mark 3 ( Mark 1 being his original house in New Hampshire, and Mark 2 being his current residence ).

The archbishops used the manor house as an occasional place of residence: as lords of the manor they dominated the life of the town well into the early modern period, and as local patrons they continue to have an influence.

Fred wears top hat and tails to the manor born — I put them on and look like a truck driver.

Ploughing on a French ducal manor in March Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry | Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, c. 1410

The UMIST emblem as used in the late 20th century ( based on the arms of the Institute, derived from the coat of arms of the lords of the manor of Manchester )

They murdered him when he tried to get them to accompany him to the king's manor to pay a trading tax on their goods.

Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly died at Insterburg in 1818 on his way from his Livonian manor to Germany, where he wanted to renew his health.

While peasants of central Russia lived in a village around the lord's manor, a Cossack family often lived on its own farm, called khutor.

Altena lives in a manor not located on any map but is near the border of France and Spain.

The title of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors of the story.

Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract, set in 1694, shows pop art on the walls of the manor ; in the uncut version, it showed a cordless telephone.

Donington manor is also thought to have been passed from John de la Rye to Peter of Savoy about 1255, when a charter was granted for a market to be held at the manor on Saturdays.

In the same year, a similar grant was made for the holding of a fair on 15 August, also to be held at the manor.

To the tenants of a manor their lord was a man who commanded on occasion the power of exercising capital punishment over them.

He fell ill early in 1219, and died on 14 May at his manor of Caversham near Reading.

Sting owns several homes worldwide, including Elizabethan manor house Lake House and its 60 acre country estate near Salisbury, Wiltshire ; a country cottage in the Lake District ; a New York City apartment ; a beach house in Malibu ; a estate in Tuscany ; and two properties in London: an apartment on The Mall, and an 18th-century terrace house in Highgate.