Why Does The Beaufort Estate Own So Much Land

[yansee]

Swansea city council have paid large amounts of money to the Duke of Beaufort estate for building on land said to be owned by him including the bed of the river Tawe,how can this be correct in the 21st century when these lands are nothing to to do with him & were probably stolen hundreds of years ago ?

[boxtops]

But if you have something built on your land you are entitled to payment - witness people who have an electricity pylon on their land, they get a fee for it.

[brionon]

Put an enormous tax on land that is over a certain acreage .QED.

[Zeuhl]

/how can an English / French baron lay claims to ownership of it /

because they have title deeds/ freehold

Same as many of us have for our properties

Where it is and what we do with it is our business surely - or are you against any ownership of property yansee?

Perhaps you favour Castro's approach; hey tenants! you now own the house you live in. Landlords! tough sh1t

Ultimately, large expanses of England and Wales are still owned by people descended from someone who hit the beaches with Guillame in 1066

[Hypognosis]

I'm no fan of Thatcher but part of her genius was positively anti-revolutionary.

She enabled the less well off to get their hands on property - or, more significantly, the land it sits on, leaseholds excepted - so that, all of a sudden, they empathise and agree with the laws governing the estates of the likes of Beaufort.

When you have something to lose, you have reasons not to revolt.

[Hypognosis]

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