Who owns what among top UK feudal types

Sun May 27 20:22:49 BST 2012

Minus the Queen - but a groovy graphic I think you'll agree

Emacs!

Look who owns Britain: A third of the country STILL belongs to the aristocracy
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1328270/A-Britain-STILL-belongs-aristocracy.html
By Tamara Cohen - 10 November 2010 - Daily Mail
More than a third of Britains land is still in 
the hands of a tiny group of aristocrats, 
according to the most extensive ownership survey in nearly 140 years.
In a shock to those who believed the landed 
gentry were a dying breed, blue-blooded owners 
still control vast swathes of the country within their inherited estates.
A group of 36,000 individuals  only 0.6 per cent 
of the population  own 50 per cent of rural land.
Their assets account for 20million out of 
Britains 60million acres of land, and the 
researchers estimate that the vast majority is 
actually owned by a wealthy core of just 1,200 aristocrats and their relatives.
The top ten individual biggest owners control a 
staggering total of more than a million acres between them.
These figures have been uncovered by the Who 
Owns Britain? report by Country Life Magazine, 
thought to be the most extensive survey of its type undertaken since 1872.
The top private landowner, not just in Britain 
but Europe, is the Duke of Buccleuch and 
Queensbury, whose four sumptuous estates cover 
240,000 acres in England and Scotland.
But while his land is the most vast, it is not 
the most valuable, as the net worth depends on 
how much is farmland, as well as the value of the 
property and sporting and heritage activities on it.
The most valuable land belongs to Number 4 on the 
list, the Duke of Westminster, whose Grosvenor 
Estate, worth a whopping £6billion, takes in the 
wealthiest areas of London, including Belgravia and Mayfair.
Second on the list of the most land owned is 
Scottish magnate the Duke of Atholl.
His 145,700 acres have pushed Prince Charles, who 
as Duke of Cornwall has 133,000 acres, into third 
place on the list of individual owners.
Yet all are dwarfed by the incredible reach of 
corporate land-ownership, which barely existed 100 years ago.
As the biggest 19th-century landowners such as 
the Church have been sidelined by economic and 
social changes, their land has been snapped up by 
the state, charities and the private sector.
More than 2.5million acres  4 per cent of the 
country  is in the hands of the Government-run 
Forestry Commission, which the Coalition plans to 
privatise. Second on the list is the 
fast-expanding National Trust, with 630,000 acres.

PS Three other big landowners you might not expect ...
PENSION FUNDS: 550,000 acres
Many of the UK's 2,800-plus funds have invested 
in land for centuries and snapped up struggling farms in the 1980s
THE RSPB: 321, 237 acres
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 
owns 200 reserves and its landholding has rocketed in the past ten years.
DEFENCE ESTATES: 592,000 acres
Over two-thirds of land owned by the MoD's 
property arm is used for training. It also owns 
50,000 service personnel homes, and 800 listed buildings
Catching up swiftly are foreign investors and even supermarkets.
Waitrose owns a 4,000-acre estate in Hampshire, 
which it runs as a farm, while Tescos 2,545 stores alone take up 770 acres.
Most of the reports information has been 
uncovered only in the past five years after a 
registration campaign targeting huge landowners 
who had previously avoided disclosing their assets.
The reports author, Kevin Cahill, who has been 
researching land ownership for ten years, told 
the Daily Mail: A small minority still own a 
huge amount of Britains land and what surprises 
many people is that over the last 100 years, not a lot has changed.
For the rich the pursuit of land is as important 
as its ever been. They receive subsidies and 
most of their assets are held in trust, avoiding inheritance tax.
The biggest change in land ownership in the past 
100 years is that people who live in cities now 
finance the countryside whereas it used to be the other way around. 
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