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 Björkborn manor house, Nobel's residence on the property of the Bofors iron works at the time of his death.

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.

Walter de Coutances, Archbishop of Rouen, was reluctant to sell the manor as it was one of the diocese's most profitable, and other lands belonging to the diocese had recently been damaged by war.

One was written to the Corporation of London regarding injuries done to her tenants at the manor of Enfield, which comprised part of her dower lands.

The Inquisitio Eliensis is a record of the lands of Ely Abbey ; and the Exon Domesday ( so called from the preservation of the volume at Exeter ), which covers Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire ( however only one manor of Wiltshire is included and parts of Devon, Dorset and Somerset are also wanting ) also all contain the full details supplied by the original returns.

In 1792 French troops occupied the district and in 1793 the lands were annexed by France, which explains the linguistic switch of the Family of the House of Basel's name from " von Basel " to " de Bâle ", since Arlesheim holds their manor.

The previous month there had been a minor disturbance at the nearby town of Attleborough where fences, built by the lord of the manor to enclose common lands, were torn down.

The heads of many ancient English land-owning families have continued to be theoretical lords of the manor of lands they have inherited, but to attempt to use such title in a social situation would be incorrect usage.

The lands of the manor were given to the Cecil family in 1588 and a new manor house was constructed and gardens laid out in the formal Elizabethan style.

At this time the manor lands included Wimbledon Common ( then called a heath ) and the enclosed parkland around the manor house.

The Domesday Book records the manor of Greenwich as held by Bishop Odo of Bayeux ; his lands were seized by the crown in 1082.

Most of the Gildredge lands were carried by marriage into the Gilbert ( now Davies-Gilbert ) family of Eastbourne, who made the Gildredge manor house their own.

Lacock Abbey was founded on the manorial lands by Ela, Countess of Salisbury and established in 1232 ; and the village — with the manor — formed its endowment to " God and St Mary ".

The whole 6 leagues long and 6 leagues broad ... To this manor belongs the soke of these lands ... Kirkburton, 3 carucates ... in all, there are 30 carucates to the geld, which 20 ploughs could plough.

The charity originally consisted of a Master, Warden, four fellows, six poor brothers, six poor sisters and twelve poor scholars ( orphans admitted from the age of six years old ), who became the joint legal owners of Alleyn's endowment of the manor and lands of Dulwich, collectively known as the Members of the College.

They in turn sold the manor, while retaining rights to some of the lands, to Stanford University in 1965.

Jitō handled the taxation and administration of the manor to which they were appointed, and directly administrated the lands and the farmers of the manor.

For himself he bought in 1655 the manor of Beckett near Shrivenham ( then in Berkshire, now Oxfordshire ), and other lands adjoining it, from his friend Henry Marten.

Under the manorial system a bailiff of the manor represented the peasants to the lord, oversaw the lands and buildings of the manor, collected fines and rents, and managed the profits and expenses of the manor and farm ( see Walter of Henley ).

As concerns for privacy increased in the 18th century, manor houses were often located a farther distance from the village.

Between 1156 and 1162 Henry II granted the manor to his steward, Manasser Biset, and as the settlement grew a fair ( 1228 ) and later a market ( 1240 ) were established there.

Under the feudal system, most land in England was cultivated in common fields, where peasants were allocated strips of arable land that were used to support the needs of the local village or manor.

At the rich end of the scale the manor houses and palaces were awash with large, elaborately prepared meals, usually for many people and often accompanied by entertainment.

The substantive title of " Lord of the Manor " is not generally recognised today in the law of England and Wales, and the legal concept of the manor having been abolished when the manorial courts were abolished, the residents of a former manor owe no legal recognition to a person who holds such title.

The manor and castle were then sold by his father-in-law, Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, to Hewer Edgeley Hewer ( heir to William Hewer, Samuel Pepys ' onetime servant and later protégé in the Admiralty ).

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.

Tykenham and Herses were within the parish of Hillingdon, though Herses subsequently became part of the manor of Swalcliff.

Plumstead manor, together with the church of Plumstead and the chapel of Wickham annexed to it remained part of the possessions of the monastery until its final dissolution in 1539, the 30th year of the reign of Henry VIII, when the abbey and all its revenues were surrendered into the King's hands by the then abbot, John Essex and its thirty members.

By the time King's College took ownership of the manor, the woods were let for sport, with pheasants kept for shooting.

Subsequent monarchs were regular visitors, with Henry IV making his will here, and Henry V granting the manor ( for life ) to Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, who died at Greenwich in 1417.

There were substantial medieval moated manor houses in the area, principally at Canonbury and Highbury.

The manor became a popular resort for Londoners due to this rural aspect and many public houses were founded to serve the needs of both visitors and travellers on the turnpike.

In the Domesday Book three lords were associated with Swaffham: Walter Giffard, with the largest manor ; his tenant Hugh Bolebec, who held all of the Giffard land there ; and Aubrey de Vere I, who held a smaller manor at Swaffham which the Domesday jurors said Aubrey had seized without the king's permission.

The River Bure has been navigable for some as far as Horstead Mill, near Coltishall, since at least 1685, when cargoes of coal, corn and timber were carried to within of Meyton manor house.

At the start of the 11th century, the church and manor of Waltham were held by an Anglo-Danish Thegn called Tovi the Proud.

However, its existence within the manor of Ulvritone is evident from the massive rise in value of that manor at a time when most manors were worth less than in Saxon times.