Since large parts of the line run towards the grand estates, this enabled the royal family to make its influence felt.

The next hotel he works at is a grand estate, but it is almost always empty.

By the end of her career, she had designed 200 gardens, many at grand estates.

Gone are the grand estates with their huge staffs of gardeners.

The house was called Maple Run, as if it were some grand estate with a staff and a social calendar.

One boy happily stayed with two dozen other children in the guest house of a grand estate.

Close by the river flows past the once grand estate of Ynysygerwn.

Nothing else suggests what it took in human labor to make this grand estate.

There are no grand estates nor million dollar homes in town - at least not yet.

Traditionally these grand estates were the nucleus of village life.