Manor house
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For the London district, see Manor House, London. For the PBS reality TV series, see The Edwardian Country House.
A manor house or fortified manor-house is a country house, which has historically formed the centre of a manor (see Manorialism). The term is sometimes applied to relatively small country houses which belonged to gentry families, as well as to grand stately homes, particularly as a technical term for minor late medieval castles more intended for show than for defence.
In modern usage, the term manor or manor house is often used, especially outside Europe, to mean simply either a country house or indeed any other house considered to resemble one, without any reference to age or to the historical sense of the term.
[edit] Manor houses in the United Kingdom
- Alford Manor House
- Avebury Manor
- Aydon Castle, Northumberland
- Baddesley Clinton
- Bettiscombe Manor
- Birtsmorton Court
- Bitterne Manor
- Bradninch
- Bramall Hall
- Boarstall Tower
- Bodysgallen Hall
- Brodie Castle
- Burghley House
- Calcot Manor
- Chambercombe Manor
- Chavenage House
- Cheddington
- Chenies Manor House
- Clevedon Court
- Corpsewood Manor
- Cranborne
- The Dagenams
- Edlingham Castle
- Grimshaw Hall
- Hatfield House
- Hinxworth Place
- Huis Doorn
- East Riddlesden Hall
- Gainsborough Old Hall
- Garsington Manor
- Gidea Hall
- Great Chalfield Manor
- Halltorps
- Harlaxton Manor
- Hartham Park, Corsham
- House of Dun
- Hughenden Manor
- Ightham Mote
- Kelmscott Manor
- Kirby Muxloe Castle
- Knole House
- Lambton Castle
- Les Augres Manor
- Lesingham House
- Levens Hall
- Linford Manor
- Little Barford
- Llanrwst
- Monboddo House
- Northborough, Cambridgeshire
- Oxon Hoath
- Owlpen Manor
- Raasay
- Snowshill Manor
- Stanford Hall
- Stokesay Castle
- Stourhead
- Sturminster Newton
- Sulgrave
- The Manor House Bishop Bridge
- Theobalds
- Thorndon Hall
- Ufton Court
- Waddesdon Manor
- Walton Hall, Milton Keynes
- Washington Old Hall, ancestral home of George Washington
- Wightwick Manor
- Wingfield Manor — deserted
- Woodstock Manor
- Woolsthorpe Manor
[edit] See also
- Country house
- There is a short list of Normandy manoirs in Pays de Caux.
- Reality tv show recreating life in an Edwardian manor house.
- Halliwell Manor
