Half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population

Research by author reveals corporations and aristocrats are the biggest landowners

Rob Evans
Wed 17 Apr 2019 20.29 BST Last modified on Thu 18 Apr 2019 00.50 BST

Half of England is owned by less than 1% of its population, according to new data shared with the Guardian that seeks to penetrate the secrecy that has traditionally surrounded land ownership.

The findings, described as “astonishingly unequal”, suggest that about 25,000 landowners – typically members of the aristocracy and corporations – have control of half of the country.

The figures show that if the land were distributed evenly across the entire population, each person would have almost an acre – an area roughly the size of Parliament Square in central London.

Major owners include the Duke of Buccleuch, the Queen, several large grouse moor estates, and the entrepreneur James Dyson.

While land has long been concentrated in the hands of a small number of owners, precise information about property ownership has been notoriously hard to access. But a combination of the development of digital maps and data as well as pressure from campaigners has made it possible to assemble the shocking statistics.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/apr/17/who-owns-england-thousand-secret-landowners-author

[keithbvadu2]

1. list of the 7 social classes in 1841 England

list of the 7 social classes in 1841 England

Notice how large the Seventh Class is… over half?

http://bp3.blogger.com/_LCVZWFAEodk/R5OsiseYUUI/AAAAAAAAJ9c/VSnpsWczN5Q/s1600-h/1814+society.JPG

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. That table has mistakes in - the figures it has for the final class are actually the total

for all civilians.

It came up earlier this year, and I managed to work out what it should read - see https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211706539#post9

[keithbvadu2]

3. Yep. Shows the same principle of the top 1% or the elite.

Yep. Shows the same principle of the top 1% or the elite.