Abstract:

In England, private ownership of land was established in the 17th century, and land rights had continued to be established in the subsequent practice afterwards. By the late 19th century, the public hindered real estate owners within the landscape area from developing land on the grounds of protecting the landscape. The landscape protection was actually protection of the public interest, while real estate owners had private property rights to use land legally, and the contradiction between the two often led to conflicts. In the process of exploring fundamental solutions, the National Trust constructed the landscape land ownership model by trust to achieve the coordinated development between landscape protection and private land ownership. Subsequently, relevant laws and policies were continuously introduced, which not only gradually institutionalized the model, but also effectively resolved the landscape protection within the framework of private ownership, and the private land ownership system had been developed and improved.

Published on Economic and Social History Review, Issue 2, 2024.