Tied cottage
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A tied cottage is a dwelling house typically owned by an employer that is only rented out to their employees, If the resident leave their job for any reason then they must move out of the house. Thus the employee is tied to that employer. This was a common practice in nineteen and twentieth century rural England, where the landowner, that is aristocracy or a farmer, had total say on who lived in these houses. There were tied cottages on the Sandringham estate
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It was justified by the landowner saying that there were a limited number of houses in the area and he couldn't manage the estate unless he provided the house for a worker.
This was easily abused by the landowner, who use the threat of eviction to prevent workers leaving his employ, or sack and evict workers who were not of his political persuasion, for instance during the Burston school strike
. Thomas Hardy
uses this as a plot feature in his novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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Sandringham House
Sandringham House is a country house on of land near the village of Sandringham in Norfolk, England. The house is privately owned by the British Royal Family and is located on the royal Sandringham Estate, which lies within the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.-History and current...
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It was justified by the landowner saying that there were a limited number of houses in the area and he couldn't manage the estate unless he provided the house for a worker.
This was easily abused by the landowner, who use the threat of eviction to prevent workers leaving his employ, or sack and evict workers who were not of his political persuasion, for instance during the Burston school strike
Burston Strike School
The Burston Strike School was at the centre of the longest running strike in British history, between 1914 and 1939. Now a museum, it is in the village of Burston in Norfolk, England....
. Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. While his works typically belong to the Naturalism movement, several poems display elements of the previous Romantic and Enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural.While he regarded himself primarily as a...
uses this as a plot feature in his novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, also known as Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Tess of the d'Urbervilles or just Tess, is a novel by Thomas Hardy, first published in 1891. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British...
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