Estate

An comprises the houses, outbuildings, supporting farmland, and woods that surround the gardens and grounds of a very large property. It is an alternate term for a, but does not necessarily include a manor’s jurisdictional authority. It is an “estate” because the profits from its produce and rents are sufficient to support the household in the house at its center, formally known as the. Thus, “the estate” may refer to all other cottages and villages in the same ownership as the manor house itself, covering more than one former manor.

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