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Pockets of farmland and what appear to be common green areas are among the sites under the ownership of the Crown Estate.
The areas under the ownership of the estate have been plotted on a map compiled by the blog Who Owns England following Freedom of Information requests.
Areas of south Cumbria make up the nearly 200,000 acres owned by the Crown Estate across Britain.
According to the map, the estate also owns section of land off Furness’s Coast Road.
That includes land that forms part of Moat Farm near Newbiggin, incorporating the listed Moat Hill motte and bailey castle.
According to the map, the Crown Estate also owns a section of the Coast Road running through Sea Wood between Baycliff and Bardsea as well as a section of the beach that runs alongside it.
Meanwhile, around Great Urswick, the estate owns farm land off Horse Close Land and a field to the east of Urswick Tarn.
In Little Urswick, the map says a section of green space adjacent to Church Road is also property of the estate.
Smaller pockets in the villages of Scales and Stainton are also among the assets of the Crown Estate.
It was revealed earlier this year how King Charles makes millions from his ownership of land around the Furness Coast.
The King owns the foreshore that runs around Barrow as part of his estate the Duchy of Lancaster.
According to an investigation by Channel 4 and the Sunday Times, the King’s estate profits from use of the wind farm off the coast of Walney.
It was reported that in 2011 the duchy struck a deal that will see it make £4.5 million over 50 years from the owner of the wind farm, Walney Offshore Windfarm Ltd, a subsidiary of Ørsted, to allow a single underground cable to run under the shore.
Another deal struck in 2020 with another Ørsted subsidiary is said to be worth £14 million to the duchy over 50 years to allow more Walney wind farm electricity to be brought onshore via cables under the King’s beach at Potts Corner in Lancashire, according to the Sunday Times.
The Crown Estate owns the land where the wind farm sits.
In 2023 King Charles asked for profits from the £1bn-a-year crown estate windfarm deal to be used for the ‘wider public good’ rather than as extra funding for the monarchy.
The estate says its £16 billion portfolio includes rural land, the seabed and urban centres and its mission is to ‘create lasting and shared prosperity for the nation’.
“Managing 185,000 acres across England and Wales, we aim to be a model of sustainable and environmental best practice,” a spokesman said.
Assets owned by the Crown Estate are held ‘in right of the Crown’, meaning they belong to the Sovereign for the duration of their reign, but cannot be sold by them, while revenues from the assets do not belong to them.
Profits from the estate are paid to the UK Treasury and are used to set the funding for the monarch in the form of the Sovereign Grant.
