Country Houses - What Kind of Impact Did They Have?

Country houses were often many communities in themselves. noble retinues could contain perhaps hundreds of people. In later centuries, dozens and dozens of staff were required to run them. And what kind of impact did country houses have on their local areas and local populations? Well, it must have been huge. Because they were completely er self contained, er entities. They must have given a lot of employment to the local population in the mediaeval period.