Although the Right Honourable Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester, decided to move the village of Holkham to allow the building of his new stately home in the 1730s, it might have been an example of an earlier moved village, but not as many houses were destroyed as Lord Milton did in Milton Abbas. An interesting comparison of the empathy of the two lords of the manor can be gauged in the quality and style of the new houses that they built for their estate workers. This was shown very clearly in the BBC programme ‘Villages by the sea’, series 4, episode 4, Holkham, presented by Ben Robinson recently.