The church sits at the west end of the street opposite a single large house, possibly a manor house.

The name " Fairmount " itself derives from the prominent hill on which the Philadelphia Museum of Art now sits, and where William Penn originally intended to build his own manor house.

Members of the Carroll family still own and live in the manor, which sits at the center of an-estate.

The parish church sits in the western portion of the village adjoining the manor, Chaddleworth House.

The name Pontrilas originally only belonged to the manor house, once one of the homes of the Baskerville family, which sits beside the bridge over the River Dore, near where it meets the Dulas brook and another smaller stream.

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

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.

Fred wears top hat and tails to the manor born — I put them on and look like a truck driver.

Ploughing on a French ducal manor in March Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry | Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, c. 1410

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 ).

The UMIST emblem as used in the late 20th century ( based on the arms of the Institute, derived from the coat of arms of the lords of the manor of Manchester )

They murdered him when he tried to get them to accompany him to the king's manor to pay a trading tax on their goods.

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.

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.

Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly died at Insterburg in 1818 on his way from his Livonian manor to Germany, where he wanted to renew his health.

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.

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

The title of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors of the story.

Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract, set in 1694, shows pop art on the walls of the manor ; in the uncut version, it showed a cordless telephone.

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.

In the same year, a similar grant was made for the holding of a fair on 15 August, also to be held at the manor.

To the tenants of a manor their lord was a man who commanded on occasion the power of exercising capital punishment over them.

He fell ill early in 1219, and died on 14 May at his manor of Caversham near Reading.

Sting owns several homes worldwide, including Elizabethan manor house Lake House and its 60 acre country estate near Salisbury, Wiltshire ; a country cottage in the Lake District ; a New York City apartment ; a beach house in Malibu ; a estate in Tuscany ; and two properties in London: an apartment on The Mall, and an 18th-century terrace house in Highgate.

The manor of Ormesby was extensive and stretched about four miles from the banks of the River Tees to the brow of the hill south of Ormesby village.

After the manor decayed, a new manor house was built in 1271 ( see below ) to the south-east ; to differentiate it from the original manor and because it was on a hill, it was called Highbury, from which the area takes its name.

Disney Legend Harper Goff developed a black-and-white sketch of a crooked street leading away from main street by a peaceful church and graveyard, with a run-down manor perched high on a hill that towered over main street.

Hidden on the hill above the bridge are the ruins of Sturminster Newton Castle, a manor house rather than a defensive building.

The name Ecclesall ( either from Heeksel-Hallr meaning the witches ' hill, or Eccles ( church ) halh ( hollow )) is not mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 — at that time Ecclesall was a part of the manor of Hallam.

Its may denote, Eastern or Ash tree Ridge, referring to the situation of the village on the ridge of a hill or could derive from previous associations with the manor of nearby Aston Clinton.

The hamlet name ' Kingshill ' means a hill in possession of the king, which local folklore suggests was King John ; there is certainly evidence of King John granting the manor at Kingshill to Hugh de Gournay in 1213, although this same document states that the land was previously possessed by Geoffrey fitzPeter.

The modern manor house was built in 1778, and stands on a hill in the village with a commanding view of the Thames and of Berkshire.

Around 1276 the manor was purchased by Queen Eleanor and a palace was built on the hill above the village to its west with a deer park extending to its south.

Throughout the Middle Ages, the manor of Chadderton constituted a township, centred on the hill by the banks of the River Irk, known as Chadderton Fold.

Ednyfed Fychan, 13th century seneschal to Llywelyn the Great and ancestor to the House of Tudor was granted the land and built a castle on the hill, of which all traces have disappeared, and a manor, Llys Euryn of which the ruins of its 15th century reconstruction can be seen today.

The towns market was located on a small hill overlooking the right bank of the river, near the original wooden manor.

Sites of particular interest include: Hakoinen fortress hill and manor house, the latter being privately owned ; St Lauri's ( Lawrence's ) mediaeval stone church ; the Torppari Museo ( authentic wooden village buildings and windmill ) and numerous Bronze Age sacrifice stones, all in Janakkala village.

Historians have assumed the location of the manor of the Herren von Reit ( Lords of Reit ), on a small hill above the church.

Between the 1780s and the 1810s Smith was responsible for replacing the existing Elizabethan house with one higher up the hill east of the village, landscaping the park, and moving the houses of the village to the current High Street, where he added picturesque estate cottages incorporating pieces of sculpture and architectural fragments from the old manor house.

Newington Barrow later became known as Highbury, after the manor house built on a hill.

“ Rawden ,” means in Old English, “ a dweller in the rough valley .” The manor, or tract of land, on the hill near the “ rough valley ” awarded to Paulyn was on the River Aire in the former Urban District of Aireborough in Yorkshire, England ’ s largest county.

The name ’’ Herstmonceux ’’ comes from Anglo-Saxon hyrst, " wooded hill ", plus the name of the Monceux family who were lords of the manor here in the 12th century.

The original park comprised the grounds of Wimbledon Park House, the seat of the manor of Wimbledon, situated on the hill to the south, near St Mary's Church, Wimbledon the old parish church of Wimbledon.

In 1133, the hill was part of a manor that Henry I gave to a baron called Richard de Balta.

Over time, plots of land in the manor were sold off for building, particularly in the early 19th century, though the hill remained mainly common land.

The town's history in watchmaking is documented at one of the world's premier horological museums, the Musée d ' Horlogerie du Locle, Monts Castle, located in a 19th century country manor on a hill north of the city Restored historic underground mills ( grainmill, oilmill, sawmill ) can be seen in a cave located about one kilometer west of the city center.