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.

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

Manors varied similarly in their geographical arrangement: most did not coincide with a single village, but rather consisted of parts of two or more villages, most of the latter containing also parts of at least one other manor.

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.

Visitors to the website are able to look up a place name and see the index entry made for the manor, town, city or village.

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.

Separated from the manor by mountains, there is a village which belongs to Altena, and their ancient task is to guard her manor.

However, rare modern legal cases have been won by persons claiming rights as lords of the manor over village greens.

The Château de Chenonceau () is a manor house near the small village of Chenonceaux, in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France.

In 1512 Hanworth came to the Crown, and Henry VIII, who enjoyed hunting on the heath surrounding the village, gave the manor to Anne Boleyn for life.

The manor and village remained abbey property until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Henry VIII's reign when the manor was sold to Lionel Ducket and Edward Whitchurch.

* Willow Cottages on the village green are said to have been built of bricks from the old manor house, which once stood behind the parish church.

Edward's " manor " according to a sign in the village was on the site of the present village firehouse.

In 1333, Sir Philip de Burgh was granted a licence to ' crenelate ' his manor house at Walton.

The manor house in Walton was called Walton Court, and was a wattle and daub structure that was stockaded and moated and situated across the road of what is now Walton Terrace.

The manor should not to be confused with Walton Court, the modern housing estate of the same name, which is in a completely different location.

Walton Hall manor house located on the Open University campus. Walton Hall is a district in Milton Keynes, in the English county of Buckinghamshire, and is the location of the campus and offices of The Open University.

The manor house ( Walton Hall ) that gives the district its name and the ancient parish church of St Michael, now deconsecrated, are in the University's grounds.

After the Dissolution of the monasteries the manor passed to Thomas Walton and then to the Rolle family.

A wealthy local landowner, Petre was a discreet Catholic who maintained two local manor houses, Ingatestone Hall and Thorndon Hall, the first of which still survives in a much-altered state.

It is thought that the couple lived at his ancestral manor house, Barlow Woodseats Hall, before his death in 1544.

Near the site of van der Donck's mill is Philipse Manor Hall, a Colonial-era manor house which today serves as a museum and archive, offering many glimpses into life before the American Revolution.

The dovecote, which had nesting space for 250 birds, belonged to Pimp Hall ( originally Pympe's Hall ), one of three manor houses around Chingford.

The Garth family owned the land and maintained their connection with the parish for the next four centuries, living at Morden Hall Park until the manor was sold by another Sir Richard Garth in 1872.

The places named by Standish, with the exception of the Isle of Man, are all in Lancashire, England, leading some to conclude that Standish was born in Lancashire — possibly in the vicinity of Chorley where a branch of the Standish family owned a manor known as Duxbury Hall.

The Curzon family have owned the estate at Kedleston since at least 1297 and have lived in a succession of manor houses near to or on the site of the present Kedleston Hall.

Robert's son, also called Robert de Gernon, of Grimston Hall, Suffolk, married the heiress of John Potton of Cavendish and obtained a landed estate in the lordship and manor of Cavendish.

* Agecroft Hall, late 15th century, Lancashire, England -- English Tudor manor house transplanted to Richmond and reconstructed by Thomas C. Williams, Jr. in 1925

There are also the old manor house of Rayne Hall, and Old Hall ; a previous Rectory.

The original manor house, Esholt Old Hall at Upper Esholt is medieval in origin, probably 16th century, and possibly once moated.

The couple settled at the manor of Huntingfield, described as " enchanting, with a legend for every turret ... A splendid gallery ran the length of the house, the Great Hall was built around six massive oaks which supported the roof as they grew ".

Edward died young, Robert became a Knight Bachelor and married Theophile, daughter of Thomas Berkeley, Arthur married Elizabeth, heir of Sir George Walgrave, John married Meriel, daughter of Anthony Wheately, through which Holkham Hall came into the Coke family, Henry married Margaret, daughter of Richard Lovelace, and inherited the manor at Holkham from his brother John ( who had seven daughters but no son ), Clement married Sarah, heiress of Alesxander Redich, and Thomas died as an infant.

Older buildings include two 18th-century pubs ; Todmorden Old Hall, a Grade II * listed manor house ( Elizabethan ) in the centre of town and currently in use as a restaurant ; and St. Mary's Church which dates from 1476.

The manor remained in the hands of the Tempest family, who resisted the expansion and industrialisation of the village, for some four hundred years before selling the Hall and estate in 1941, to E. W. Towler director of Redpath Dorman and Long.

Next on the left, is Tong Hall, a 17th-century manor house built in the late 17th century, and is part of the historic part of the area, replacing a much older building ( A capital messuage ( manor house ) is recorded in 1343 as part of the holdings of the Tong family, but destroyed by fire around 1700 )

In this way, Asolf ’ s son Richard de Tang ( c. 1130-c. 1195 ) was the first in a line of Lords of Tong who would inhabit Tong Hall and oversee the running of the manor until 1941.

Baildon had two manor houses ; one on Hall Cliffe, the other, in lower Baildon.

The first Bretby Hall was built in 1630 after Thomas Stanhope bought the manor of Bretby from the family of Stephen de Segrave, to whom it had been granted by Ranulph de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester.

In 1585, Thomas Stanhope bought the manor house which was known as Bretby Hall and from then on was the home of the Earls of Chesterfield.