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Download or read book A Great Estate At Work written by Susanna Wade Martins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-09-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the work of both Thomas William Coke and his son, their agents and their tenants at Holkham through the nineteenth century and into the early years of the twentieth. It shows how far even the most dynamic landlord needed a progressive tenantry and how far the tenantry relied on the landlord for the provision of good farm buildings and other capital expenditure.