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So mostly government/utility agencies and the royal family.

• cybert00th 6y ago
  Steady the buffs old chap, 4 out of 10 is hardly mostly
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• tialaramex 6y ago
  The answer is actually mostly "we don't know, a very large number of small landowners" but that's boring and the top line items are big landowners who collectively own about 20% of woodland. The two categories you mentioned are represented (e.g. the Duchy of Cornwall is the personal land holding of Prince Charles, the Forestry Commission is a government department for looking after this sort of thing) but there's also charities (the National Trust and Royal Society for the Protection of Birds are charities) and the Church (specifically the Church of England) in that top 10 list. And not so much royalty (only Charles is in that top list, and only his mother is in the second list of smaller personal estates, the Crown Estates do not actually belong to the monarch they belong to the country and so are effectively another government agency) as aristocrats: Dukes, Earls, Barons, these people aren't part of the royal family they've just inherited wealth and power.