How can a farmstead be situated in its paddock? In _The Markenmore Mystery_ (1922) by J. S. Fletcher, the author was describing Markenmore village: > Markenmore was a place of tiny thatched cottages, set in gardens and orchards, with here and there a substantial farmstead, set back from the road, in **its** paddock or home-garth; its main feature stood in its midst—a grey old church, whose tower and spire rose high above the elms and poplars that fenced in the churchyard. I think that the bolded "its" refers to the farmstead, but how can the farmstead, which is the larger thing, be situated in its paddock or home-garth, which is just a part from it?

I believe the _farmstead_ here refers to the buildings on the farm, while the _paddock_ refers to the fenced-in land associated with the farm. The definition in the OED is.

> A plot of farmland and the buildings upon it; a homestead; a farmhouse and its adjacent outbuildings.

The third of these possibilities seems to limit the definition of _farmstead_ to just the farm's building, while there could be a lot of additional fenced-in grazing land, which would be the _paddock_.