![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Guy Shrubsole: Activist, writer, troublemaker. Taking advantage of the great strides made in digital mapping over the past fifteen years, we want to build the most comprehensive public map of land ownership in England: a modern Domesday, if you like.Īlong the way, we’ll be throwing in a little history, some politics, photos from the odd site visit, tips on making Freedom of Information requests, thoughts on data rights (without getting too nerdy, we promise), and maybe even a smattering of psychogeography… ![]() Where Cahill simply lists the owners of England, however, we hope to map them. Our quest follows in the footsteps of much greater adventurers, such as Kevin Cahill’s Who Owns Britain? (2001), a colossal work that re-opened the question of land ownership in the UK. Where we build our homes, how we grow our food, how we protect ourselves from flooding, how much space we set aside for wildlife – all this is hugely affected by who owns land. It matters because who owns land gets to choose how it’s used and that has big implications for almost everything. It matters because land is a scarce resource – as Mark Twain put it, ‘they aren’t making it any more’ – and because ownership of it often confers wealth, power and influence. Who owns England? This blog is an attempt to answer that question – one of the most closely-guarded secrets in the thousand-year-old history of this country. ![]()
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