Sense and Sensibility opens with the pivotal event of inheritance: Mr. Henry Dashwood is the legal inheritor of the Norland estate (located in Sussex). Norland Park is the house that Mrs. Dashwood must vacate after the death of her husband. The house is (as shown above) in a landscaped park at Plympton. 

"The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it" (41). Mr. Henry Dashwood leaves his estate to his son from a previous marriage, John Dashwood. Initially, John promises to help Mr. Henry Dashwood's wife and daughters, but after conversations with his wife, he goes back on his word to Mr. Henry Dashwood.

Edit in a update from ch.1 about Henry Dashwood's legal affairs and his uncle. 

Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility, edited by Kathleen James-Cavan, Broadview Press, 2001.