ABSTRACT
Originally published in 1982, and based on extensive research in estates’ archives, this book outlines the changing fate of the 500 largest estates in England over the centuries. It examines estates in their heyday and looks at their changing role as they declined in the twentieth century, showing how some estates have survived and describing the differing uses to which country houses have been put.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|102 pages
Landownership and the Estate in the Rural Landscape to Circa 1880
part Two|122 pages
A Century of Change 1880 to 1980