Broadlands and its Estates
The families that lived at Broadlands cannot be detached from their physical setting, the house, and the estates which supplied much of the income that underpinned their life-styles and careers. Extensive landed property, firstly in Ireland from the seventeenth century, and then in Hampshire from the eighteenth, was a major source of revenue. In the nineteenth century, there were some industrial investments, in slate mines in Wales. Broadlands was transformed into an impressive Palladian residence under the second Viscount, from 1767 onwards. The third Viscount consolidated the estate in a block of land mainly to the south of the house.
