Woodland is relatively cheap in the UK. Certainly for what you pay, you can get an unmanageably large amount of land. You can get a few acres for 10-20k, up to

Woodland is relatively cheap in the UK. Certainly for what you pay, you can get an unmanageably large amount of land. You can get a few acres for 10-20k, up to hundreds of acres for < 200k. Prices have gone up quite a lot recently. You pay more for things like ancient/hardwoods, features like river frontage/streams (which may have fishing rights) and occasionally some come with outbuildings. For example: https://www.woods4sale.co.uk/woodlands/scotland/1488.htm https://www.woods4sale.co.uk/woodlands/scotland/1488.htm The catch is that you are extremely unlikely to get planning permission (hence cheap) for a building and you can legally only stay there for a certain period of time each year. On the other hand, you can put up a small cabin if it's for "forestry activities" and if appropriate you can make a profit out of the land (e.g. lumber, forest crops, charcoal). There's also a reasonable chance there will be public access routes through your land. Big benefits though. It's yours, freehold, and it's convenient for tax purposes (no inheritance tax). You can camp on it, or have a caravan, and it's essentially your playground. You are liable for some maintenance like boundary fencing, but aside from that its' really up to you what you do with it. In Scotland it's a bit different, you can build a hut (technical term) and the only real constraint is that it must be removable without leaving a trace - so you can't put in permanent plumbing, for example. It also can't be your main residence. See: https://072b35b7-8c60-4122-84b1-63e1d24587e4.filesusr.com/ugd/0a87b6_b3d6d3c282be407a9f0a16b037e7573f.pdf?index=true https://072b35b7-8c60-4122-84b1-63e1d24587e4.filesusr.com/ug... https://www.thousandhuts.org/ https://www.thousandhuts.org/