An Anglo-Saxon multiple estate was a large landholding controlled from a central location with surrounding subsidiary settlements.
The concept of an Anglo-Saxon multiple estate was developed by Professor Glanville Jones of Leeds University.
[3] These estates typically contained various features:[4] The specialised settlements, dependent on the caput, often took their name from the crop they produced – Cheswick (cheese wick), Berwick (barley farm), etc.
[6] These estates may have been based around a royal vill and may have been coterminous with the parochia of an early minster church.
[10] In the late Anglo-Saxon period, many of these large estates fragmented into smaller units which eventually became independent parishes.