The title of the Lordship of Manton Manor in Rutland is up for sale with Manorial Services. 

For £8,500, the buyer will become the Lord or Ladyship of Manton, a title which dates back over 890 years ago. 

Situated just outside Oakham, Manton was one of seven portions of farmland that was created when the Royal Manor of Hambleton was divided up in the 1130s. 

Manton Manor was taken over by the crown in 1342 by the clerk of Edward III but was previously used intermittently used by Henry I and his successors while England was at war with France. 

In 1423, the manor was gifted to Lord Cromwell and, on his death in 1455, the property was transferred by his heirs Joan and Maud to the Holy Trinity Almshouses in Tattershall, Lincoln. 

From when the manor was transferred to Charles, Duke of Suffolk in 1545, the manor changed hands in quite rapid succession for the next 80 years due to a series of early deaths and fallouts over inheritance and ownership. 

The seventeenth century was another troubled period for the manor, with the manor being passed to James Wright in 1682. Wright famously published the History of Rutland in 1684. After Wright's death, his heirs continued his legacy until it was passed bought by Kenelm Johnson, Sheriff of Rutland in 1741. 

There was, once again, a period of rapid transferral of the manor from 1740s to 1907 before the Manor was taken over by the Trustees of Benjamin Pulleyne of Headingly in Yorkshire. From him, it was passed to the Nicholson family who sold it to the family of the present owner in 1989. 

The title is now up for sale once again, through Manorial Services, for the price of £8,500.