Best Grantham

Grantham is a small town in Lincolnshire, about one hundred miles (160 kilometers) from the area in Yorkshire where Downton, home of the earls of Grantham, stands. It was not unusual for titled families to live hundreds of miles from the town or county from which their title derived, however, for families frequently owned land—and houses—in many different counties. Land holdings were often consolidated in the twentieth century and estates sold off, leaving a number of anomalies like this. G