Talk:Manor house/Archive 1

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There appears to have been a fundamental misconception here. The feudal system died out in England in the 14th century, but at least one of the houses on the list wasn't built until hundreds of years later. I have marked the list, linked this page to the country house page and added a brief definition. I will come back and expand the article at some point.Philip 17:53, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * In England, things often don't happen in a clear-cut way. There were still manorial courts in England until, I think, 1934 (the copyhold article says the 1920s). It is true that most of their functions had been taken over by other institutions but they remained to deal with the form of property tenure known as copyhold. Copyhold, tithes and workhouses were all abolished in England, between the wars. However, something of the nature of manorial courts remains in places where land is worked cooperatively as in the New Forest and at Laxton, Nottinghamshire, where the farmers have to agree on what is to be done in the open fields.

Addition of two "Manorhouses"
I've added Lambton Castle, which is actually a manorhouse. It is not, technically, in the country; and although it is geographically and "politically" in Washington (Tyne & Wear) it is physically not in the town. I have also added Washington Old Hall. For clarification, and to check whether they qualify for this list (which I thought was merely a compilation of houses within manors (not feudalism)), I advise visiting their respective pages. SKC 00:18, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

PoV issue with this page
This page is way too UK-centric on the manor house topic. It would be nice to see some history and descriptions of manor houses from other areas of Western Europe (such as France!). Also, the long list of manors is annoying and distracting from the wikipedia definition of a "manor".BME 22:51, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Agree that article should not be clogged up with a great big long list. I'll split.  But if you think that the article can be improved by adding other manor houses, please go right ahead! --John Maynard Friedman 16:55, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * The list format has been fixed since I last looked and doesn't seem so overwhelming any more. No strong case to split. --John Maynard Friedman 16:58, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * The article is about the buildings not the manors (estates) on which they are situated. I have sub-sectioned the list which appeared to be a jumbled list of "manors" (of which there are as many if not more than there are English villages) into lists of each variant of suffix of manor houses. More examples may be welcome for the rarer varieties such as -Place, -Park, etc. It might be desirable to delete the items in the list which appear to refer to estates not houses.(Lobsterthermidor (talk) 17:58, 20 February 2014 (UTC))

Size of these places
I might've read through this article a little fast, but do we have any mention of how large these houses could be? And if not, can we get some info? PlaguedKiller

Dutch iw
There are two dutch interwikies.--Unai Fdz. de Betoño (talk) 14:50, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The reason why there are two links to the Dutch Wikipedia, both of them off the mark, is because there is no article in the Dutch Wikipedia that gives a Europe-wide overview of the subject like this one does. There are several articles relating to specific aspects of it, but no overall article like this one. There are certain irregularities regarding the Dutch treatment of this subject, but the best way to describe it is that the concept of manor house has been subsumed into the articles relating to "castles" and there is (oddly) little handling of the subject of manorialism. There are a few tangentially related articles, but none of these focus on the homes and none focus on Europe in general. Mnor houses are as common and as historically important in the Netherlands as anywhere else. Indeed, "buitenhuizen" is no. 21 in the Canon of the Netherlands (http://entoen.nu/buitenhuizen). However, there is no Dutch Wikipedia article on the subject. The closest I can find is "buitenplaats", which is the equivalent of "Stately homes". But just as "Stately homes" deals with only the UK, "Buitenplaats" deals with just the Netherlands. There is no article in the Dutch Wikipedia that looks at manor houses throughout Europe. For that reason, I would suggest that the best approach is to remove the link until someone does write that article. Someone else, I should say, because I don't participate in the Dutch Wikipedia -- I just criticise it! Schildewaert (talk) 11:32, 11 September 2011 (UTC)