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TitleLandholdings 1872 (Return)Landholdings 2001 (Cahill)CAP payments 2015Of which single area payments?Notes & sourcesDate of creationCurrent holderPeerage
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The Duke of Norfolk49,86646,000£449,166£259,605The famuly seat is Arundel Castle and estate in Sussex. Norfolk Estate Farms took in £449,166 in CAP in 2015, of which £259,605 was for single area payment.(1483 or 1514)Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of NorfolkEngland
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The Duke of Somerset25,3872,000N/aN/aThe family seat is Berry Pomeroy Estate, Devon; they also own Maiden Bradley Estate, Wiltshire. See http://www.duchyofsomerset.co.uk/1547John Seymour, 19th Duke of SomersetEngland
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The Duke of Richmond, Lennox, and Gordon
286,41112,000£379,085£253,038The family seat is Goodwood, West Sussex. Goodwood Estate Co Ltd are the registered landowners and CAP recipients (11,500 acres according to estate website, 9,751 according to Land Registry C&C dataset).1675Charles Gordon-Lennox, 10th Duke of RichmondEngland
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The Duke of Grafton25,77311,000£835,559£495,320The family seat is Euston Hall, nr Thetford, Suffolk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Grafton and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euston_Hall. The estate comprises some 6,260 acres according to http://www.eustonhall.co.uk/The-Farm_12699.html. On Defra CAP payments search website, Euston Farms in Thetford received £835,559 in CAP in 2015, £495,320 in single area payment. Euston Farms does not appear on Companies House, but it is referred to on the estate's website.1675Henry FitzRoy, 12th Duke of GraftonEngland
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The Duke of Beaufort51,08552,000£688,097£345,075The family seat is Badminton, Gloucestershire, where the Duke's company Swangrove Estates Ltd owns 20,502 acres. Swangrove Farms took in £401,877 in CAP 2015, of which £345,075 was single area payment. The Duke also owns land in Breconshire, for which he received £286,220 in CAP in 2015, all of which was for Environmental Stewardship.1682David Somerset, 11th Duke of BeaufortEngland
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The Duke of St Albans8,9984,000N/aN/aAccording to Wikipedia, recent Dukes of St Albans have not possessed land: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_St_Albans1684Murray Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St AlbansEngland
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The Duke of Bedford86,33523,020£543,233£431,163Woburn Estate (21,474 acres, according to Land Registry C&C database). See also http://www.woburn.co.uk/. Woburn Farming Partnership (£400,570 in CAP in 2015, of which £332,115 was single area payment). Additionally, Bedford Estates took in £10,735 in ES payments in 2015, whilst the Trustees of Bedford Estates took in £131,928, of which £99,048 was single area payment.1694Andrew Russell, 15th Duke of BedfordEngland
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The Duke of Devonshire198,57273,000£768,623£218,856Chatsworth Estates in Derbyshire (Chatsworth House, Staveley and Scarcliffe estates), and grouse moors at Bolton Abbey. Chatsworth Settlement Trustees took in £768,623 in CAP in 2015, of which £218,856 was single area payment1694Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of DevonshireEngland
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The Duke of Marlborough23,51111,500£526,549£284,468Blenheim - Vanbrugh Trustees Ltd (8,775 acres). Blenheim Farm Partnership, which farms land around Blenheim Palace (shown by ES payments map by Natural England), took in £508,342 in CAP in 2015, of which £284,468 was single area payment. Companies House entry for Blenheim Farm Partnership: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/LP004258/filing-history. Separately, Blenheim Estates took in £18,207 in 2015 for ES payments.1702
Jamie Spencer-Churchill, 12th Duke of Marlborough
England
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The Duke of Rutland70,13726,000£358,430£314,531The current 11th Duke of Rutland is David Manners, a prominent supporter of UKIP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Manners,_11th_Duke_of_Rutland. The seat of the Duke of Rutland is Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire (another scion of the Manners family also own Haddon Hall, Derbyshire). The Belvoir Estate comprises some 16,000 acres: https://www.belvoircastle.com/the-estate/farming-and-woodland/. Terrace Hills Farm LLP farm the Belvoir Estate and the Duke of Rutland is one of the directors: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/OC359105/officers. Terrace Hills Farm took in £353,135 in CAP in 2015, of which £314,531 was single area payment. Additionally, the Belvoir Estate took in £5,295 in ES payments in 2015. It's unclear whether the Duke owns additional lands elsewhere.1703David Manners, 11th Duke of RutlandEngland
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The Duke of Hamilton157,36812,000N/aN/aThe seat of the Duke of Hamilton is Lennoxlove House, East Lothian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennoxlove_House and http://lennoxlove.com/. It seems likely that the estate is farmed by the Lennoxlove Farming Company, but no records exist for it in the public domain: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/SL000380. Nor is it listed on Defra's CAP payments register.1643
Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 16th Duke of Hamilton
Scotland
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The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry
460,108270,700£1,643,510£707,036Boughton Estate (25,516 acres), B Q Farms Ltd. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/SC062810/officers. Buccleuch Estates Ltd, Buccleuch Woodlands, the 9th Duke of Buccleuch's Property Trust and the 10th Duke of Buccleuch together took in £655,050 in CAP in 2015. Additionally, B Q Farms Ltd, owned by the Duke of Buccleuch, took in £983,777 in CAP in 2015. Lastly, the Boughton Estates Ltd took in £4,683 in CAP in 2015.
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Richard Scott, 10th Duke of BuccleuchScotland
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The Duke of Argyll175,11460,800£120,097£0The family seat of the Dukes of Argyll is Inveraray Castle on the west coast of Scotland: http://www.inveraray-castle.com/. Torquhil Ian Campbell 13th Duke of Argyll took in £120,097 in CAP in 2015. Companies House lists the Duke of Argyll as being director of Aray Trading Ltd, but this company doesn't show up on the Defra CAP payments register: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/kBEzJkgbvtITcpjBoxasHKHk2_s/appointments1701Torquhil Campbell, 13th Duke of ArgyllScotland
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The Duke of Atholl201,640148,000£172,436£60,287The Duke of Atholl's family seat is Blair Castle, with an estate currently stated to be 145,000 acres: http://atholl-estates.co.uk/. Blair Charitable Trust Ltd took in £9,728 in CAP in 2015, all for ES payments. Blair Castle Estate Ltd took in £162,708 in CAP in 2015, £60,287 in single area payments.1703Bruce Murray, 12th Duke of AthollScotland
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The Duke of Montrose103,4478,800N/aN/aFamily seat is Auchmar house, a 'modest estate' near Loch Lomond. James Graham, 8th Duke of Montrose, is a Conservative party politician.1707James Graham, 8th Duke of MontroseScotland
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The Duke of Roxburghe60,41865,600£361,919£175,938The family seat is Floors Castle in Scotland, and the Roxburghe Estates currently cover 52,000 acres on the Scottish-English borders: http://www.floorscastle.com/. Duke of Roxburghe on Companies House: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/SR4suUG1fSPFwJ7pgw4bRhtMdK0/appointments. Roxburghe Estates Woodlands took in £65,437 in CAP in 2015, all as ES payments. Floors Farming received £296,482 in CAP in 2015, of which £175,938 were single farm payments.1707Guy Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of RoxburgheScotland
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The Duke of Manchester27,312NilN/aN/aAssume none.1719Alexander Montagu, 13th Duke of ManchesterGB
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The Duke of Northumberland186,397132,200£327,403£133,553The family seat is Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, and the Duke also owns Syon House in London. The Duke's companies include Hotspur Forestry Ltd (5,741 acres), and Percy Northern Estates Ltd (13,193 acres). Burncastle Farming Ltd took in £196,508 in CAP in 2015. Northumberland Estates took in £101,252 in CAP in 2015. Earl Percy's Syon Estate took in £10,228 in CAP in 2015. The Trustees of the Tenth Duke of Northumberland received £19,415 in CAP in 2015, all as single area payment.1766Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of NorthumberlandGB
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The Duke of Leinster73,100NilN/aN/aAssume none.1766Maurice FitzGerald, 9th Duke of LeinsterIreland
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The Duke of Abercorn78,66215,000N/aN/aEstate is in Ireland, so won't be recorded in Land Registry nor on Defra's CAP register. Duke of Abercorn on Companies House: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/EDR-UqWySL2A-k-QP2nHqsj4ioM/appointments1868James Hamilton, 5th Duke of AbercornIreland
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The Duke of Wellington19,11631,700£80,878£66,486The family seat is Stratfield Saye, Hampshire. Arthur Charles Valarian Wellesley is the current Duke of Wellington: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/L0SM1KHv9vsUBlpd5WV1SRrqgXE/appointments. He is a director of the Stratfield Saye Estates Management Company, based near Reading. Stratfield Saye Farms took in £80,878 in CAP in 2015 (in 2014, it received £126,483). Stratfield Saye Estate on the Hampshire/ Berkshire border purportedly runs to around 7,000 acres. The family also own the Dalreoch Estate in Scotland, which boasts of 3,000 acres of hill shoots and 3,000 acres of farmland: http://www.dalreochestate.co.uk/ - so Wellington owns at least 13,000 acres nowadays.1814Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of WellingtonUK
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The Duke of Sutherland1,358,54512,000£191,802£170,419Family seat is Mertoun House, Perth, Scotland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mertoun_House. Duke of Sutherland took in £15,746 in CAP payments in 2015, all for rural development/ ES payments. His company, Mertoun Estate Farms Ltd, received £176,053 in CAP in 2015, of which £170,419 was single area payment. (See also Companies House: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/04030000/officers). 1833Francis Egerton, 7th Duke of SutherlandUK
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The Duke of Westminster19,749129,300£815,805£462,775The family seat is Eaton Hall, Cheshire. The Grosvenor Estate covers Mayfair, Belgravia, Cheshire farmland, Abbeystead grouse moor, and Scottish lands. Grosvenor Farms took in £637,709 in CAP in 2015, of which £424,001 was single area payment. Additionally, the 4th Duke of Westminster's 1964 Settlement took in £178,096 in CAP in 2015, of which £38,774 was single area payment.1874Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of WestminsterUK
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The Duke of Fife
Title didn't exist.
1,500£169,905£144,364David Charles Carnegie, the Duke of Fife, is director of Elsick Farms Ltd. The Duke of Fife is recorded in Defra's CAP register as taking in £169,905 in CAP in 2015, of which £144,364 was single area payments. According to Andy Wightman, the Duke of Fife's Elsick Estate is 1,600 acres: https://web.archive.org/web/20070927201157/http://www.whoownsscotland.org.uk/page_cache/kn/elsick.htm. But the Duke's other main property, Kinnaird Castle, has an estate of 7,000 acres, so this is missing from the maps & Cahill's statistic: https://kinnairdcastle.co.uk/estate/ 1900David Carnegie, 4th Duke of FifeUK
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The Duke of Cornwall
Blogged about here: https://whoownsengland.org/2017/03/15/what-land-does-the-duchy-of-cornwall-own/
1337HRH Prince WilliamEngland
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The Duke of Gloucester
Royal ceremonial title without lands
1928HRH Prince Richard, 2nd Duke of GloucesterUK
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The Duke of Kent
Royal ceremonial title without lands
1934HRH Prince Edward, 2nd Duke of KentUK
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The Duke of York
Royal ceremonial title without lands
1986HRH The Prince Andrew, 1st Duke of YorkUK
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The Duke of Edinburgh
Royal ceremonial title without lands
Following Prince Philip's death, and Charles' accession, title has reverted to Crown ie is not bestowed on anyone else1947UK
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The Duke of Cambridge
Royal ceremonial title without lands
Whilst Prince William is still the Duke of Cambridge, he is also the Duke of Cornwall (above) and Prince of Wales, so technically this isn't a separate person now2011HRH Prince William, 1st Duke of CambridgeUK
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