Land tenure in the British Isles

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Posted By:TubbaBlubba

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Originally Posted by Lothian (Post 12362481) They are not hers. She doesn't have the right to dispose of the assets. That means she is not the owner. She does have her own property, Balmoral. Come the revolution and when we get rid of the monarchy. She will keep Balmoral, the government will keep the crown estate.

The ownership of land in the British Isles is shrouded in secrecy privacy. Scotland only abolished feudalism in 2000.

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I now know that the Ministry of Defence owns 750,000 acres, that the aristocratic Grosvenor Estate has 140,000 acres, and that grouse moor estates cover an area of England the size of Greater London. It’s very clear that land ownership in England is concentrated in the hands of the wealthy few: the investigative journalist Kevin Cahill has estimated that just 36,000 individuals own half of the UK’s rural land. But no one seems to have the full picture.

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In 1872, in an effort to disprove radicals’ claims that only a tiny elite dominated the landed wealth of the nation, Lord Derby – a major landowner himself – asked the government to undertake a proper survey. The Return of Owners of Land – or “Modern Domesday”, as it became known – was the first comprehensive assessment of land ownership in Britain since William the Conqueror’s swag list after the Norman conquest. But far from dousing the demands of the radical land reformers, the survey lit a fire under the issue. The Return showed that just 710 aristocratic individuals owned a quarter of the entire country.

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The government’s recent housing white paper heralded some welcome steps in this direction – announcing that the Land Registry would soon make freely available its datasets on land owned by UK companies and offshore firms. But that’s only a fraction of the total. Aristocratic families, who almost certainly still own the great majority of England, will be exempt – since their huge estates are invariably registered in an individual’s name, if they’re registered at all.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...land-ownership

So, whoever said the Normans 'are now English and integrated' might think again as the baronies created by William the Conqueror for his knights, are likely the same plots of land owned by their descendants today.

Whilst the aristocracy own a quarter of the UK, the rest will be owned by the the Crown, the National Trust and large corporations.

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