Country houses during this era were often palatial, with expansive estates and architecturally designed gardens.

Following the growth of the monastic movement in the 6th century, abbots controlled not only individual monasteries, but also expansive estates and the secular communities that tended them.

Nonetheless, here it was in Bedford, a town known for its expansive estates and horse-country elegance.

Around the turn of the century the Morristown area was where as many as 100 millionaires from New York built their country houses and owned expansive estates.

The Enfield neighborhood was platted from the eastern pasture of Elisha M. Pease's expansive Woodlawn estate in 1914.

Baum grew up on his parents' expansive estate, Rose Lawn, which he always remembered fondly as a sort of paradise.

The increases would range from as little as $132 a year for a modest home in Roosevelt to $968 for an expansive estate in Brookville.

It is the site of Royal Dundee Liff Hospital, a large psychiatric institution situated in the grounds of an expansive estate.

Errol Flynn (1909-1959) - American film and screen star, made Portland his home with an expansive estate to the east of the parish.

Early settlement in the area consisted of expansive estates, later subdivided in response to the city's burgeoning population.