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The Making of Downton Abbey

Brookfield Public Library, Neighbor

How did a few families come to own so much English property? Why did Robert's family need him to marry an heiress like Cora? Why do places like Downton Abbey look the way they do? Learn about the landscape designers, land ownership patterns, and inheritance laws that produced great estates like Downton, and why radical changes were inevitable.


 

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