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A Brief, Incomplete, and Rather Stopgap Article about European Household and Other Group Names Before 1600:
England - Manors

by Sharon L. Krossa
Last updated 14 Mar 2007 (this section), 3 Oct 2008 (article as a whole)  

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England - Manors

As defined in the Middle English Dictionary (MED), in the late Middle Ages a manor was "1. (a) A manorial estate, consisting of a manor house, service buildings, lands, etc. ..." (MED, s.v. maner (n.(1)) ). The earliest examples of use of the word in the MED date to circa 1300. Spellings listed in the header of the MED are: "maner ... Also manar, manir & manour, manor, manoir, manair".

One pattern for the identification of manors used in England (in English) was:

manor of <place name>

Historical examples include:

Another pattern was:

<place name?> manor
or
<place name?>manor

Historical examples include:

Another pattern was:

<place name> hall
or
<place name>hall

Historical examples include:


Bibliography

MED Middle English Dictionary. Electronic edition. WWW: University of Michigan, 2001 (last updated 18 Dec 2001). URL: <http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/m/med/>. Cited 14 Mar 2007.

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