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In the Roman world the term 'villa' denoted a farm and it's outbuildings (in other words a farmhouse); it is used now to describe Roman houses built in the country, of all kinds and sizes from small farms no bigger than a small piece of land to large country mansions, but it is more appropriate to the latter (as at Chedworth). Some villas were the headquarters of industrial enterprises such as pottery making or quarrying. Such houses with outbuildings for beasts, barns for storage, and places for the labourers and slaves, were enclosed within an estates wall, fence or ditch while their fields lay beyond. Many produced harvest and yield for sale, while several additionally had gardens, orchards and woods and would mostly be profitable, self-supporting businesses. The household would house members of the extended family, as well as slaves and labourers. The houses were well built and handsomely decorated...

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