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GCSE History · key term
A landed estate controlled by a lord, including land cultivated by peasants.
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An estate controlled by a lord, including farmland and usually a village. Its peasants paid rents or provided services to the lord.
Revise: Economic and Social ChangesA village usually formed part of a manor, an estate controlled by a lord. The lord collected rents and services, while peasants depended on access to land to support their households. A reeve supervised daily agricultural work and helped ensure that obligations were fulfilled.
Paper 2
An estate controlled by a lord, containing land farmed for the lord and land held by tenants.
Revise: English SocietyA manor was an estate controlled by a lord, often a knight. Peasants held strips of land on which they grew food for their families, while also owing obligations to the lord.
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An agricultural estate where a lord’s land was worked by peasants who also cultivated land for their own support.
Revise: The Norman Conquest and the Feudal SystemOn a manor, an agricultural estate, peasants cultivated plots for their own households and worked the lord’s demesne, the land kept for his own use. In return, they received access to land, housing and protection. Many were tied to the lord and manor, although not all peasants had the same status or degree of freedom.
Paper 1
An estate controlled by a lord, where peasants lived and farmed.
Revise: Characteristic featuresAn estate under a lord's control was called a manor. Peasants worked the lord's fields and also grew food on land available for their own use. The lord benefited from their labour and the produce of the estate.
A landed estate controlled by a lord, including farmland and usually a village.
An estate comprising the lord’s land and land occupied by tenants, whose resources, inhabitants and value could be recorded in the Domesday survey.
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