Preindustrial class exclusivity operated in leisure spots, not residence.

Evidence

Here and there in the historical descriptions, however, are suggestions that if there was little. exclusiveness in where one lived, there might be some in where one played. … In the 1600s, London’s Hyde Park, for example, became the setting for aristocratic get-togethers. In an area known as the Ring-a dusty circle of land in the middle of the park-the assembled “beautiful people” took rides in their coaches, some of the coaches going in one direction, some in the other, so that all had the opportunity to see and be seen (Larwood, 1881:47-48). — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 270