A Manor is not a building, it's an area of land. A Manor House is a building. 

On 17 March 2018 19:40:31 CET, "José G Moya Y." <josem...@gmail.com> wrote:
>There are structures which are "manors" and I would't tag as a castle.
>As
>an example, a Spanish "cortijo" is the center of a big (originally,
>feudal)
>estate that is metonymically called "cortijo", too.
>
>The central building has a defensive purpose. Historians would say some
>walled villages are shaped  "in a 'cortijo' shape". But most people in
>Spain would't consider a "cortijo" as a castle.
>
>So I would left the assignment of a castle tag to "emic" local
>knowdledge.
>French manors (châteaux) are castles; from your words, it seems british
>manors are castles, but in some countries manors are definitely no
>castles.
>
>
>El 17/3/2018 13:45, "Christoph Hormann" <o...@imagico.de> escribió:
>
>> On Saturday 17 March 2018, Volker Schmidt wrote:
>> >
>> >   I would remove the part that requires a current administrative
>> > function.
>> >
>> >
>> > Please do not remove this. This is the wording that made me use the
>> > manor tag for the Venetian Villas, which have exactly this
>> > characteristic. I believe, but am not sure, that the same applies
>to
>> > the UK manor houses .
>>
>> I think Martin's point was that a historic manor house does not have
>to
>> fulfill a present day function as administrative centre of an
>> agricultural estate.
>>
>> --
>> Christoph Hormann
>> http://www.imagico.de/
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