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Defining and categorizing Britain's landowners
Who actually owns Norfolk's land? Is it the state, communities, the aristocracy, or newly rich city grandees? As WON's project team has...
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How to define the British aristocracy
The English remain fascinated with the aristocratic class, with the popularity of Downton Abbey serving as an obvious example. But who...
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Earl of Verulam pockets £17 million from sale of Woodrising Norfolk estate
It's safe to say most Brits were not well prepared for the successive economic crises that have battered the country since the COVID-19...
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How much land is owned by Norfolk County Council?
Who Owns Norfolk's estimates that Norfolk County Council owns between 16,790 acres and 21,080 acres (6,780 hectares to 8,530 hectares)....
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Who Owns Norfolk - H1 2023 Update
It's now been almost two and a half years since Who Owns Norfolk (WON) launched at the start of 2021. The genesis of the project was...
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Sandringham Estate Map
The map below displays the full extent of Sandringham Estate. Sandringham Estate Map : Who Owns Norfolk produced this Sandringham Estate Map. To our knowledge this is the first map of the estate to be made publicly available, perhaps ever. Sandringham Estate is owned by King Charles III and is just over 20,000 acres in size. As a result it is Norfolk's second largest private estate, after Holkham Estate. The estate's area is larger than that of Norwich, a city of over 140,000
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30 by 30 in Norfolk: Rewilding, ecological restoration and conservation
Note, this analysis was updated in October 2025 - the most recent analysis can be found by following this link . On December 19 2022, 190...
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Meet the Birkbeck family of Norfolk - prominent landowners, Barclay founders and rewilders
Who Owns Norfolk's research recently identified that the bucolic and expansive ~9,000 acre West Acre Estate is one of the largest...
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Norwich Western Link interactive map - charting the destructive path of a new road
The proposed four lane Norwich Western Link (or Norwich Wensum Link) road will crash through: Picturesque and un-spoilt Norfolk...
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