Dette er i alle fall forklaringen. Jeg skal si i fra hvis jeg kommer på en god oversettelse.

"There are many reasons why villages differ but one of the most important concerns the ownership of the land and houses. In the Victorian period writers called settlements where there were many owners occupying their own property open villages and those where the land and houses were largely in the hands of just one or two landowners, they called close or closed villages. There were, of course, many villages between these two extremes. Closed villages could be further subdivided between those where the main landowner was non-resident and those where the main landowner lived in the village or nearby. The latter are known as estate villages."