Demesne Synonyms

Demesne Sentence Examples

• To the west of the town lies Woburn Park, the demesne of Woburn Abbey,.

• Land held in ancient demesne is sometimes also called customary freehold.

• In 1087 the king held the manor of Wendover, and therefore it belonged to the ancient demesne of the crown.

• But what the Third Crusade showed most clearly was that the crusading movement was being lost to the papacy, and becoming part of the demesne of the secular state - organized by the state on its own basis of taxation, and conducted by the state according to its own method of negotiation.

• The other most notable open spaces wholly or partly within the county are Hampstead Heath in the north-west, a wild, high-lying tract preserved to a great extent in its natural state, and in the south-west Wimbledon Common, Putney Heath and the royal demesne of Richmond Park, which from its higher parts commands a wonderful view up the rich valley of the Thames.