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[[Image:Titles of Jacob Jan, Lord of Wassenaar (1765).JPG|thumb|260px|Titles of Jacob Jan, Lord of Wassenaar (1765)]]A typical ''heerlijkheid'' manor consisted of a village and the surrounding lands extending out for a kilometre or so. Taking 18th-century [[Wassenaar]] as an example of a large ''hoge heerlijkheid'', it was 3,612 [[morgen]]s in size and had 297 houses. Nearby [[Voorschoten]] was 1,538 morgens in size and had 201 houses. [[Nootdorp]] was an ''ambachtsheerlijkheid'' of 196 morgens and 58 houses.<ref>[http://www.herenvanholland.nl Heerlijkheden van Holland] (in Dutch only)</ref> There were 517 ''heerlijkheden'' in the province of Holland in the 18th century. All fell into the last three categories in the list below (except for a few for which this information is unknown).
Not all ''heerlijkheden'' were the same. They differed in size and composition.<ref name="Janse"/> Also, a ''heerlijkheid'' should not be confused with a larger territory, like a [[county]] (''graafschap'') or [[viscounty]] (''burggraafschap''), nor with administrative regions on par with an English [[shire]], Dutch ''gouw'', German ''[[Gau (country subdivision)|Gau]]'', or Roman or Carolingian ''[[pagus]]''. A Flemish [[castellany]] (''kasselrij'' or ''burggraafschap'') was larger and different from a ''heerlijkheid'', but they were similar in some ways.<ref name="Nicholas">{{Cite book|author=David Nicholas|title=Medieval Flanders}} pp. 47, 50, 88, 106, 159, 341</ref>
There were different kinds of ''heerlijkheid'':
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