An English manor house built in the 12th century was named yesterday as the oldest continuously occupied home in Britain. Saltford Manor House in Saltford, Somerset, boasts a Norman window in the ...

“Manorbier is a magical place, the most romantic castle in the world,” she says of this picturesque 12th-century manor on the rugged coast of Wales, which she inherited three years ago.

Llanthony Secunda Manor, in the picturesque Wye Valley of Wales, dates back to the 12th century and can sleep up to 16 guests and was seized by Henry VIII between 1536 and 1541.

Tim Soar stood in the oak-paneled drawing room of his 12th-century English manor house, known as Long Crendon Manor, fretting as the heat from the crackling fire escaped out of a door left ajar.

Unlike the 600 or so other ancestral piles in Wales, this 12th-century manor is also privately owned — which in this case means that legions of tourists don't trudge through the grounds every day.

12th-century manor near Corfe Castle seeks new owners to honour its legacy (Image: DOMVS) Multiple wells and water pumps are found across the grounds and the property sources its water from ...

The brilliantly renovated Astley Castle is a combination of a 12th century fortified manor and a modern hotel.