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

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

He is the mascot for Essendon in AFL mascot manor.

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.

By extension, the word manor is sometimes used in England to mean any home area or territory in which authority is held, often in a police or criminal context.

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.

When the manor is alerted to his presence, Magil throws Riddel over his shoulder and dashes off into the morning sun as her proud father Lynx tearily bids goodbye.

Also, while there are complaints of contemporaries regarding William II's personal behaviour, he was instrumental in assisting the foundation of Bermondsey Abbey, endowing it with the manor of Bermondsey ; and it is reported that his " customary oath " was " By the Face at Lucca!

* The first water closet, by Sir John Harington, is installed in a manor near Kelston in England.

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.

In the course of his visit to the Talboy's manor, Robert is entranced by George ’ s sister Clara, who looks startlingly like George.

The 17th century manor of Haute-Chalais, a granite chateau, is situated to the south of the city in Blosne Quarter ( Bréquigny ).

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.

After stating the assessment of the manor, the record sets forth the amount of arable land, and the number of plough teams ( each reckoned at eight oxen ) available for working it, with the additional number ( if any ) that might be employed ; then the river-meadows, woodland, pasture, fisheries ( i. e. fishing weirs ), water-mills, salt-pans ( if by the sea ) and other subsidiary sources of revenue ; the peasants are enumerated in their several classes ; and finally the annual value of the whole, past and present, is roughly estimated.

" Or, as the author of the eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica article noted, " To the topographer, as to the genealogist, its evidence is of primary importance, as it not only contains the earliest survey of each township or manor, but affords, in the majority of cases, a clue to its subsequent descent.

* Jimmy Page is filmed sitting by a lake next to his 18th century manor at Plumpton, East Sussex, playing a hurdy gurdy.

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

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

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

This had been the coach road when the house was occupied, as I understand, by a Major John BRITTON, who, according to the account of the old farmer, was said to have ruined himself by working the coal upon his own estate half brother, William JONES of Stowey, baled him out with a loan of £ 1, 200, in return for which BRITTON left JONES his High Littleton estates and lordship of the manor on his death in 1742.

* 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.

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.

' In many legends Robin Hood is said to have been a displaced son of the lord of Hallamshire, who at this period in history resided at his manor at Loxley.

One building, the main " manor ," is said to have been the model for the estate in which Anton Chekhov set The Cherry Orchard.

Grant by Thomas, earl of Ormond, to Reginald Bray, knight, of the lordships or manors of Shire and Vachary in Craneley parish, for his life, reserving the advowson of Shire church and the right of entry into Vachary park to hunt, with easement for the said earl, his servants and horses when staying within the lordship of Shire ; Reginald providing a chaplain called ' a chauntry prest ' to officiate in the chapel of Vachary manor ; with letter of attorney authorising John Westbroke to deliver seisin.

Apart from the manor which contained West Derby Castle, said to have been built by Roger of Poitou, there were several other manors which were owned by the Lord of the manor for his own use.

Walton's recorded history appears to have started with the death of Edward the Confessor, when it was said that " Winestan held the manor of WALTON ".

And he had a son, by name Sir Roger, who succeeded by inheritance to those manors, lands, and tenements, after the death of the said Sir Stephen his father, as in fact appears by the letters patent of the Lord Henry, late King of England, son of King John, the date whereof is 8 January, in the forty-first year of his reign, by which the said late King granted, that those tenements in Shepeye and Upcherche ( contained in the said letters patent ), which are now called North-wode Scepeye, which were formerly held of the said late King, as of his manor of Myddelton, 3 in Gavelkind, should henceforth be held, by the said Sir Roger, of the said late King and his heirs, by service of the twentieth part of one knight's-fee, and by certain services also annually to be rendered.

Sir John, the eldest son of Sir John Northwode and Joan Badlesmere, married Agnes, one of the daughters of Sir William de Grandisson and Sibilla his wife, and, with the consent of the said Sir John, his father, endowed the said Agnes with the manor of Northwode Chasteners at the door of the church.

Subsequently the overlordship of Hurstpierpoint came into the hands of the Lords Bergavenny, and the manor was said in 1602 to have been held of their manor of Ditchling.

" That whereas the said Ankarette on Saturday, 12 April, 17 Edward IV ( i. e. 1477 ), was in her manor at Cayford ( i. e. Keyford, Somerset ) and Richard Hyde late of Warwick, gentleman, and Roger Strugge late of Bekehampton, co. Somerset,

It was said to have been made for a local manor house in 1543, and transferred to the church after the house was demolished.

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.

It often covered the same geographic area as the manor, under the lay jurisdiction of the Lord of the Manor, which generally shared the same name and from the creation of which the parish may have derived its existence.

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.

Some villages have disappeared ( for example, deserted medieval villages ), sometimes leaving behind a church or manor house and sometimes nothing but bumps in the fields. Some show archaeological evidence of settlement at three or four different layers, each distinct from the previous one.

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.

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

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.

Pulaski was born on March 6, 1745 in the now-nonexistent Pulaski manor house, located near the present address 53 Nowy Świat St. near Warecka St. in Warsaw, Poland ( the date and place have been erroneously reported in some older sources ).

The suggested alternative dates have been 4 March of 1746 or 1747, and the alternative place of birth, Pułaski family manor at Winiary.

Jane Small continued to live in Paddington after her second husband's death, and her manor house was big enough to have been let to Sir John Popham, the attorney general, in the 1580s.

The site of the original manor house is not known, but it is likely to have been on or near the site of the building latterly on Church Road called the Manor House, parts of which dated from the early 16th century.

His manor house is believed to have been close by the church overlooking the river and the fields are known as Manor Yards.

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.

Many historians have identified the early modern period as the epoch in which individuals began to think of themselves as belonging to a national polity — a notable break from medieval modes of self-identification, which had been largely based upon religion ( belonging to a universal Christendom ), language, or feudal allegiance ( belonging to the manor or extended household of a particular magnate or lord ).

This little fortress was probably the work of William Revel, a knight of Bernard de Neufmarché who is usually referred to as Bernard Newmarch, and may later have been the seat for the manor or commote of Melinog.

Vanbrugh had wanted an obelisk to mark the site of the former royal manor, and the trysts of Henry II which had taken place there, causing the 1st Duchess to remark, " If there were obelisks to bee made of all what our Kings have done of that sort, the countrey would bee stuffed with very odd things " ( sic ).

The chapel was originally built by the Southworth family, to upgrade the house to a manor house, which had to have:

yeres paste, that there is almoste nother cape, nor bay, haven, creke or peere, river or confluence of rivers, breches, waschis, lakes, meres, fenny waters, montaynes, valleis, mores, hethes, forestes, wooddes, cities, burges, castelles, principale manor placis, monasteries, and colleges, but I have seene them ; and notid yn so doing a hole worlde of thinges very memorable.