We are under a misapprehension in England that land is scarce, that we should be building on brownfield land and sticking up Alsopian cities on stilts.
158,000 families own sixty nine percent of the land, or 41 million acres. 24 million families live on 4 million acres.
Isn't it time we formed an orderly plan to go and grab this land back? Most of it was stolen, taken, acquired by force. We want it back
The UK's top five landowners
(excluding the Crown Estate, the Ministry of Defence and the Forestry Commission)
Duke of Buccleuch
Acreage: 270,900
Value: £598m
Subsidy Entitlement: £20.4m
Estate of Atholl dukedom
Acreage: 147,000
Value: £200m
Subsidy Entitlement: £11.0m
Duchy of Cornwall
Acreage: 141,000
Value: £480m
Subsidy Entitlement: £10.6m
Duke of NorthumberlandAcreage: 132,000
Value: £463m
Subsidy Entitlement: £9.9m
Duke of Westminster(excl London) Acreage: 129,000
Value: £450m
Subsidy Entitlement: £9.2m
figures are based on: a) a price of £3,992 for a good arable acre in
the UK in the second quarter of 2004; b) a subsidy entitlement of 113
per acre, which a spokesman for the Department of Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs considered (August 2004) to be "perfectly reasonable to
assign" where an acreage is publicly known. Note, however, that
information about actual subsidies is not available.
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