<div dir="auto">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. <div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">El 17/3/2018 13:45, "Christoph Hormann" <<a href="mailto:osm@imagico.de">osm@imagico.de</a>> escribió:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Saturday 17 March 2018, Volker Schmidt wrote:<br>
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> I would remove the part that requires a current administrative<br>
> function.<br>
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> Please do not remove this. This is the wording that made me use the<br>
> manor tag for the Venetian Villas, which have exactly this<br>
> characteristic. I believe, but am not sure, that the same applies to<br>
> the UK manor houses .<br>
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I think Martin's point was that a historic manor house does not have to<br>
fulfill a present day function as administrative centre of an<br>
agricultural estate.<br>
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Christoph Hormann<br>
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