The manor sits on the brow of the hill to the west of the main road that links Hughenden to High Wycombe.

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.

The name first appears as ryver of Hamose in 1588 and it originally most likely applied just to a creek of the estuary that led up to the manor of Ham, north of the present-day Devonport Dockyard.

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.

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.

His New York stage debut in 1931 immediately led to film offers and Laughton's first Hollywood film was The Old Dark House ( 1932 ) with Boris Karloff, in which he played a bluff Yorkshire businessman marooned during a storm with other travelers in a creepy remote Welsh manor.

At first, Valmont refuses her proposition ; he is busy trying to seduce the virtuous Madame de Tourvel ( Michelle Pfeiffer ), who is spending time at his aunt's manor house while her husband is abroad.

The first ' Bermondsey ' is that known as the location of an Anglo-Saxon monastery, and known from later charters to be the area around the post-Conquest Bermondsey Abbey and its manor, which was in turn part of the medieval parish.

The name is first recorded as Vinisbir ( 1231 ) and means " manor of a man called Finn.

A priest is first mentioned in the manor of Harefield in the Domesday Book ( 1086 ).

The lords of the manor of Swakeleys resided at Swakeleys House, though the house that stands today was not the first on the site.

* Lady Mary Abney ( 1676-1750 ), inherited the manor and commissioned the first map-based survey.

* 1241: The name " Gatwick " is first recorded, as Gatwik, the name of a manor, on the site of today's airport ( under the northmost edge of North Terminal's aircraft taxiing area ).

The manor of Matthias Nicoll who was an early mayor of New York City and among the first generation of the Nicoll family on Long Island, was a wood frame home built in the late 1600s, and one of the first homesteads on Cow Neck, the original name of the Manhasset Peninsula.

The name " Boxholm " is first to be found in the 16th century, as the name of a manor by Arvid Stenbock.

Belle Grove Plantation, about a mile southwest of Middletown, was first settled in about 1750 and its historic Federal-style manor house was completed in 1797.

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.

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.

The manor of Aylesford was first owned by William the Conqueror: the church of St Peter and St Paul is of Norman origin.

The lordship of Longdendale included the manors of Staley, Godley, Hattersley, Hollingworth, Matley, Mottram, Newton, Tintwistle and Werneth ; the manor of Staley was first mentioned between 1211 and 1225.

On the night of November 17, the group, gathered at Nestor de Barros's manor on Flamengo beach, founded the Flamengo Rowing Group (" Grupo de Regatas do Flamengo ", in Portuguese ) and elected its first board and president ( Domingos Marques de Azevedo ).

He married in 1487 the wealthy Ingeborg Philipsdatter ( Thott ) ( died 1495 ), his stepmother's first cousin, as his first wife and settled on her manor Ekholmen Castle in Uppland.

Colt purchased a large tract of land beside the Connecticut River, where he built his first factory in 1848, a larger factory called the Colt Armory in 1855, a manor that he called Armsmear in 1856, and employee tenement housing.

William the Conqueror gave the manor of ' Eslaforde ' to Remigius de Fécamp, the first Bishop of Lincoln, in around 1086.