The fundamental difference between a collection of farm buildings adjacent to each other, known as a grange, and that of a farmyard was the farmhouse. The church just as much as the aristocracy had considerable land holdings, much of this land was farmed as part of huge agrarian estates. The buildings required in the process of farming these lands were gathered together in what was known as a grange. The people who used these buildings did not live alongside them but sometimes some considerable distance away in a hamlet or village. Farms and smallholdings were parcels of land, usually tenanted rather than freeholding, that included the home of the person who worked the land within it's holding.