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I am going to assume you mean a Medieval Manor, as apposed to medieval "manner" i.e. ways and customs.

A manor was the basic division of medieval land holding. It was held by a particular noble or knight, usually from a greater noble, who received military service or money in exchange for granting it as a fief.

Most of the time a manor was one village and its farmland, pasture, and other surrounding country. In a few cases a manor might include several villages if the individual villages were small, or in rare cases the lands of a village might be split between two manors.

The primary purpose of the manor, at least to the noble, was to produce income through agriculture. Some of the farmland of the manor was held directly by the lord, and worked by serfs who owned him labor, often supplemented with some hired labor as well. The lands held by the villagers where in theory rented from the lord, and their use of the land generated some cash rents, and small fees paid in goods at various times over the year.

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