By Joseph Curtis For Mailonline
Published: 11:00 BST, 18 April 2019 | Updated: 11:06 BST, 18 April 2019
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Half of England is owned by less than one per cent of the population including the aristocracy, City bankers and oligarchs, new research has revealed.
Figures show around 25,000 landowners have control over an 'astonishingly unequal' share of the country.
Around 30 per cent of land is owned by aristocrats while another 18 per cent belongs to corporations. City workers and oligarchs have another 17 per cent.
The research also shows that if the land was distributed equally across the entire population of 55million, each person would have around an acre of land.
Data has been collected through Freedom of Information requests and analysis of Land Registry details and maps for new book Who Owns England? By Guy Shrubsole.
This graph shows the division of land ownership around Britain with 30 per cent of the country still controlled by the aristocracy and another 18 per cent by corporations. Critics say it shows how the wealthy remain as powerful as always and said the share of land was 'astonishingly unequal'
Among the most prominent landowners in England are The Queen, left, and Royal Family, who own around 1.4 per cent, and businessman James Dyson, right, who owns thousands of acres of farmland in Lincolnshire. Business oligarchs and City bankers are believed to own around 17 per cent of land in England
It has been shared with The Guardian and shows major
