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Who Owns England? by Guy Shrubsole7/6/2023 ![]() What’s astonishing about his research is how little has changed in the last 1,000 years. ![]() Using complex datasets from the Land Registry, freedom of information requests, and other tools available thanks to EU environmental rules, he has managed to lift the veil of secrecy: “The long-term concealment of who owns England appears to me to be one of the clearest cases of a cover-up in English history.”įrom the Norman conquest, when William the Conqueror divided up the country among his barons, to the enclosure of 6.8 million acres of common land between 16 (“a land grab of criminal proportions”), Shrubsole shows how the land has been systematically stolen from ordinary people: “Today most of us are landless.” The aristocracy and landed gentry still own at least 30% of England and probably far more Guy Shrubsole, an activist for Friends of the Earth, has dedicated the last few years to uncovering who really owns the land. ![]() ![]() In England, land ownership is “our oldest, darkest, best-kept secret”. ![]()
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