WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -manor house, during the European Middle Ages, the dwelling of the lord of the manor or his residential bailiff and administrative centre of the feudal estate.

Detailed explanation-2: -i. A lord had his own manor-house. He also controlled villages-some lords controlled hundreds of villages-where peasants lived. A small manorial estate could contain a dozen families, while larger estates might include fifty or sixty.

Detailed explanation-3: -The vast areas of land held by the lords were called manors. Every lord had his own manor. A manor was not just a piece of land, it had fields, meadows, mills, places of worship, huts of farmers and a manor house.

Detailed explanation-4: -A manor was usually comprised of tracts of agricultural land, a village whose inhabitants worked that land, and a manor house where the lord who owned or controlled the estate lived. Manors might also have had woods, orchards, gardens, and lakes or ponds where fish could be found.