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An estate comprises the houses and outbuildings and supporting farmland and woods that surround the gardens and grounds of a very large property, such as a country house or mansion. It is an "estate" because the profits from its produce and rents are sufficient to support the household in the house at its center. Thus "the estate" may refer to all other cottages and villages in the same ownership as the mansion itself. An example of such an estate is Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, England. For the Blur single, see Country House (song). ...
Mansion near Almelo, The Netherlands A mansion is a large and stately dwelling house. ...
The layout of Woburn before partial demolition. ...
Bedfordshire is a county in England and forms part of the East of England region. ...
Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the British Isles Languages None official English de facto Capital None official London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001...
The "park" is specifically the inner part of an estate that is enclosed by walling, hedges or fencing. An Australian park A park is any of a number of geographic features. ...
The word hedge is used in three quite different contexts: In gardening and agriculture, a hedge or hedgerow is a boundary formed by growing plants so that their limbs intertwine. ...
"Estate", with its "stately" connotations, has been a natural candidate for inflationary usage during the 20th century, much as the "landscaping" that can be effected in a front or back yard. Landscaping can refer to more than one subject: Real estate on large scale, see Landscape architecture Gardening on a large or small scale, see Landscape gardening Artwork, see Landscape painting Maintenance, see Landscape maintenance This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share...
Common usage in the UK sometimes applies the term in a humorous fashion to the land attached to any property, such as a back garden.
In the US, which does not have a strong tradition of large agricultural estates, large houses on plots of just a few acres are commonly referred to as "estates". An acre is an English unit of area, which is also frequently used in the United States and some Commonwealth countries. ...
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