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 ).

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.

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

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.

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.

Joséphine de Beauharnais bought the manor house in April 1797 for herself and her husband, General Napoléon Bonaparte, the future Napoléon I of France, at that time away fighting the Egyptian Campaign.

The American Museum in Britain is based at Claverton Manor, near Bath, England, in a house, designed by Jeffry Wyatville and built in the 1820s on the site of a manor bought by Ralph Allen in 1758, replacing the manor house built by Ralph of Shrewsbury around 1340.

The Cecil family retained the manor for fifty years before it was bought by Charles I in 1638 for his Queen, Henrietta Maria.

In 1335 the manor was bought by William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury and in 1337 he founded Bisham Priory alongside.

Henry VIII granted the manor house to Anne of Cleves as part of her divorce settlement from him, and it was later bought by the Hoby family, who lived there until 1768.

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.

It was formerly known as St Andrewthorpe, but in the 13th century, Archbishop Walter de Grey bought the manor house and gave it to the Dean and Chapter of York Minster.

In the 13th century, Archbishop Grey bought the manor house at what was then St. Andrewthorpe and gave it to the Dean and Chapter of York Minster.

The farm was originally called Vettersjö, but was named by Swedish Count Lars Kagg ( 1595-1661 ) who bought the manor during 1647.

Twenty townspeople were ordered up to Westminster, where they declared under oath that successive abbots had bought up many burgage tenenments, and made the borough into an appendage of the manor, depriving it of its separate court.

* In 1918, Knut Hamsun bought Nørholm, an old and somewhat dilapidated manor house between Lillesand and Grimstad.

They bought the market rights from the lord of the manor and, by 1832, all properties on site had been purchased, with exception of two, whose owners demanded a higher price.

The current manor was originally built in 1678 by Sir William Pritchard on land bought from the Napier family on the site of an older medieval manor.

In 1984 / 85 Harry Maloney bought the manor and converted it into a residential recording studio.

In 1993 Pete Winkelman bought the manor, and continued using the property as a recording studio, but his priority was to go to overseeing the Milton Keynes Dons football team and the building of the Milton Keynes football stadium.

Film director Stanley Kubrick bought the manor in 1978.

Lady Ottoline and her husband, Philip Morrell, bought the manor house in 1914, at which time it was in a state of disrepair, having been in use as a farmhouse.

For himself he bought in 1655 the manor of Beckett near Shrivenham ( then in Berkshire, now Oxfordshire ), and other lands adjoining it, from his friend Henry Marten.

1 June 1658 married 2ndly Gothenburg countess Christina Catharine De la Gardie ( 1632 – 1704 ), daughter of Field Marshal and Count Jakob De la Gardie ( 1583 – 1652 ) and Countess Ebba Brahe ( 1596 – 1674 ) in Göteborg and bought one of the largest estate in the Baltic area ( Kolga manor, Kuusalu Parish ) in Estonia from De la Gardie family with a land of 500 km².

They bought the manor of Little Gidding and restored the abandoned little church for their use.

His son, John Tufton, 2nd Earl of Thanet, inherited Nicholas's property on his father's death in 1631 ; it was John Tufton who reunited possession of castle and manor when he bought Bodiam Castle in 1639.

It is remarkable that nothing is provided here to welcome the Queen, for whom Charles V bought the manor of Pleasure ( Plaisance ) in 1375.