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.

Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.

The Grange, for example, a manor built in Toronto, was built in 1817.

Palin said, " This was Graham's manor and Graham was a lovely guy.

In 1530, Catherine was banished from court and spent the remainder of her life ( until her death in 1536 ) alone in an isolated manor home, barred from any contact with Mary ( although her ladies-in-waiting helped the two maintain a secret correspondence ).

This honour continued until Henry VIII resumed the manor, although it was later regranted it was without the royal service.

Manorialism was characterized by the vesting of legal and economic power in a Lord of the Manor, supported economically from his own direct landholding in a manor ( sometimes called a fief ), and from the obligatory contributions of a legally subject part of the peasant population under the jurisdiction of himself and his manorial court.

The hall was of central importance to every manor, being the place where the lord, surrounded by dependents, expressed his position of dominance

English resistance was reduced to a few isolated castles, walled towns and fortified manor houses.

At the time, the manor was in a very dilapidated condition.

A naturally defensible position was identified perched high above the River Seine, an important transport route, in the manor of Andeli.

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.

When Philip besieged Aumale in Normandy, Richard grew tired of waiting and seized the manor, although the act was opposed by the Church.

But this legend appears for the first time in only a much later account, " Tales of a Grandfather " by Sir Walter Scott, and may have originally been told about his companion-in-arms Sir James Douglas ( the " Black Douglas "), who had spent time hiding out in caves within his manor of Lintalee, which was then occupied by the English.

In the extreme south of the Lizard was the royal manor of Winnianton which was held by King William I at the time of Domesday Book ( 1086 ) and was also the head manor of the hundred of Kerrier.

In the 1860s, Kensal Green manor house, situated where Wakeman Road joins Harrow Road, was demolished.

The manor ( now demolished ) stood on the site of the Holloway Odeon.

Much of the stonework was plundered for building materials for the town and nearby manor house Berkhamsted Place ( demolished in 1967 ) but the impressive earthworks and two of the original three moats remain.

The manor was granted to Cirencester Abbey, founded by Henry I in 1117, and following half a century of building work during which the minster church was demolished, the great abbey church was finally dedicated in 1176.

Since being used as a private house, the manor was used by Canadian military in the second world war, and was also a school called Southey Hall, before being demolished for redevelopment.

The former owners were reproached with war crimes and involvement into the Nazi regime by the Soviet Military Administration, many of them were interned in NKVD special camps ( Speziallager ), while their property was plundered and the manor houses demolished.

The manor house was demolished in 1816 and the Hall Farm's farmhouse was erected on the site.

* Sir Hans Sloane ’ s manor house, demolished in 1760, stood at numbers 19 – 26.

Apart from a wing designed by George Dance, Soane demolished the house and rebuilt it to his own design and was occupied by 1804, Soane used the manor to entertain friends and used to go fishing in the local streams.

Around 1510, the manor house was demolished by an officer to the Crown, who sold the timbers for a profit to Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, who used them in the construction of Bradgate House in Leicestershire.

The gatehouse was built by John de Haudlo in 1312 and is all that remains of Boarstall House, a fortified manor house that was demolished in 1778.

Following the civil war, the manor was demolished, and the present Chicheley Hall built on the site.

The manor referred to in the below entry stood near the church, and was demolished in 1772.

The original manor house was demolished and a new house, one of the first of its kind, was designed by Colen Campbell and built by Nathaniel Ireson between 1721 and 1725.

In 1583 Roland Hynd built a new Tudor manor house at Hedsor which was badly damaged by fire in 1795 and eventually demolished in 1865.

It was later sold to George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham who remodelled the manor house, which is now demolished.

Next door to the church is a house built in 1729 which later became the vicarage ; the front door has stonework from the nearby, demolished manor house of the 16th century including the de Longueville family coat of arms, and pieces from the earlier church building.

The Birmingham manor house and its moat were demolished and removed in 1816.

The manor house, originally built in the mid-17th century before being rebuilt in the Georgian style in the 18th century was demolished after the sale of the estate by the French family to the Irish Land Commission in 1952.

All the buildings were demolished ; these included three manor houses ( two of which had been homes of the English Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812 ), 18 farms, a school and a church ( which was replaced with Nantgwyllt Church ).

The only remains of this once grand manor are stables and a fourteenth century Peel Tower, formerly part of a large house of later date which was demolished in 1979 following a fire.

In 1963, Belle Vue manor was demolished, but today a memorial plate with just that inscription has been erected at the site by the Austrian Sigmund Freud Society.

As part of Aktion 1005, the SS and police demolished the manor house and the open air ovens in the forest camp in early September, 1944.

He demolished the old castle, except for the keep and curtain walls, and had a renaissance country manor built.

Dashwood demolished the existing manor house and built a modern mansion on higher ground nearby.