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Interesting finding, makes sense. However, 69% of Britain’s land is owned by only 0.3% of our population apparently & we’ve managed to avoid revolutionary Communist ferment but still, interesting. https://twitter.com/HansGruener/status/1351163627433324546
The Duke of Buccleuch owns a lot of it.
Half of England is owned by just 25,00 landowners.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/apr/17/who-owns-england-thousand-secret-landowners-author
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/apr/17/who-owns-england-thousand-secret-landowners-author
Source of stat in the original tweet in this thread is an old Tom Holland tweet https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/980745750941495296?s=20
Who, in turn, got it from this book
Our Place: Can We Save Britain’s Wildlife Before It Is Too Late? https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B074MC2BPD/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_UcDbGb4ANN1PP
Our Place: Can We Save Britain’s Wildlife Before It Is Too Late? https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B074MC2BPD/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_UcDbGb4ANN1PP
We’ve never really fully left our Feudal past behind in truth have we?
From the intro of ‘Who Owns England’ by Guy Shrubsole (a book I need to finish reading)
‘According to the ONS, the value of land in the UK has increased fivefold since 1995. Landowners are laughing all the way to the bank: over half of the UK’s wealth is now locked up in land, dwarfing the amounts vested in savings.’
From ‘Who Owns England’ by Guy Shrubsole.
From ‘Who Owns England’ by Guy Shrubsole.
‘Sixty-six thousand people – 40 per cent of the county’s population – live in settlements that cover a mere 2.4 per cent of the land. Yet 44 per cent of the county is owned by just thirty individuals and organisations.’
From ‘Who Owns England’ by Guy Shrubsole.
From ‘Who Owns England’ by Guy Shrubsole.
‘Just 36,000 landowners – a mere 0.06 per cent of the population – own half of the rural land of England and Wales, according to the Country Land & Business Association, who represent the land lobby in Westminster.’
From ‘Who Owns England’ by Guy Shrubsole.
From ‘Who Owns England’ by Guy Shrubsole.
Its a wonder we havent had a Communist revolution tbh.
This land is your land and this land is my land eh?
Another interesting factoid from ‘Who Owns England,’ the Church of England have a property portfolio that is worth £8 billion apparently.
‘Between 1604 and 1914, some 6.8 million acres of common land were enclosed by Acts of Parliament – a fifth of all England.’
From ‘Who Owns England’ by Guy Shrubsole.
From ‘Who Owns England’ by Guy Shrubsole.
LOL
