The Noble Steward and Late-Feudal Lordship

Kelly, Catherine Lena

doi:10.2307/3817180

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“…The title of Estate Surveyor was sometimes used interchangeably with "Steward" -one responsible for upkeep on behalf of the aristocratic Lord. The idea of stewardship had an important place in feudal rural estate management as early as the twelfth century (Kelly 1986). A rural land steward's role, as described by John Lawrence (1806, 39-55), was to identify deficiencies or potentials for improvement, and to deal in a holistic way with matters of "insurance, dates of leases, rates, nuisances, trespasses, game, live and dead stock, timber, fencing, draining, paths and highways, culture and adjoining commons. "…”

Section: Developing the Grosvenor Estate In Mayfair And Belgravia: Frmentioning

confidence: 99%

The resilience of a London Great Estate: urban development, adaptive capacity and the politics of stewardship

Davis

2017

Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and

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This paper explores the concept of resilience through the planning, development and management history of one of London's Great Estates. The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair and Belgravia was developed incrementally from the 1720s and continues to be managed on behalf of the aristocratic Grosvenor family. The Great Estates have been described as exemplars of resiliently managed evolution in response to change in several publications and resilience acquired a strategic significance for Grosvenor in the early twenty-first century. This occurred in the context of the phenomenon of empty homes acquired by overseas investors which has steadily transformed the character of inner London areas, but also related to Grosvenor's management future. The paper argues that the Grosvenor Estate provides an intriguing case for testing academic ideas of "evolutionary resilience" while also raising issues of how resilience concepts are mobilised within the socio-political worlds of planning, development and real estate management practice.

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Section: Developing the Grosvenor Estate In Mayfair And Belgravia: Frmentioning

confidence: 99%