Welcome to The Crown Estate
What we do
Enhancing the value of our rural estate through active management, stewardship, and community participation.
We are one of the country's largest rural landowners, holding around 144,000 hectares (356,000 acres) of agricultural land and forests, together with minerals and residential and commercial property.
We combine a commercial approach with The Crown Estate's other core values - integrity and stewardship. Our principal aim is to ensure long-term sustainable performance from active asset management, whilst also looking to take opportunities to co-invest with our tenants and stakeholders, to deliver mutual benefit. Every year we reinvest over £10 million into the rural estate.
Some of the country's best wildlife and geological sites are also in our care. We are engaging with tenants and other partners to develop a wide range of initiatives to enhance the environment, and are guardians of a significant amount of cultural heritage, supporting local tourism, recreation and economic development.
In most cases our local managing agents are our face in the community. Their responsibilities include maintaining our ongoing relationships with farm tenants, supporting their businesses, managing property and providing advice on new initiatives.
Get in touch
Useful documents
- Rural bulletin winter 2011 (PDF, 1.6 MB)
- The business deal (PDF, 137 KB)
- Sustainable housing joint agreement with HCA (PDF, 100 KB)
- The management deal (PDF, 374 KB)
- The design guide (PDF, 1.0 MB)
- Environmental legislation and The Crown Estate (PDF, 70 KB)
- Burnhill Green (PDF, 964 KB)
- Rural tenants' handbook (PDF, 2.1 MB)
- Building in partnership (PDF, 8.7 MB)
Local focus
- 05 February 2014 Dunster woodland activity centre gets go ahead
- 15 January 2014 Work commences on Lecht road junction project
- 12 December 2013 Early Christmas present for West Somerset Community College
- 26 November 2013 Exe Estuary Trail complete
- 21 November 2013 Delamere regeneration plans open for public consultation