What is the name of the Dashwood family estate in 'Sense and Sensibility'?

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The Dashwood family estate in Sense and Sensibility is called Norland Park. It is the Sussex estate where Henry Dashwood lives with his second wife and their daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, at the beginning of Jane Austen’s novel.

When Henry Dashwood dies, the inheritance passes to his son John, the child of his first marriage. John’s wife, Fanny, persuades him not to provide the financial help Henry had intended for his stepmother and half-sisters. As a result, Mrs Dashwood and her daughters must leave Norland Park and move to Barton Cottage in Devonshire, offered to them by their relative Sir John Middleton.

Norland Park is easy to confuse with the other estates in the novel. Barton Park belongs to Sir John Middleton, while Barton Cottage is the smaller home occupied by the Dashwoods. Allenham is associated with John Willoughby, and Combe Magna is his home in Somersetshire. Norland’s loss establishes the novel’s central concerns with inheritance, money, family duty and women’s financial insecurity.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026

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