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Originally Posted by HarryT
There's a hell of a lot of land in Britain that's been in the same family since 1512. It's only 500 years - that's not really a terribly long time as these things go.
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Well, I think that all depends... There is also an awful lot of land in Britain that does not belong to who it did 500 years ago. And if you go to Ireland, or to parts of Continental Europe, things are even more radically scrambled. And of course in the Americas, essentially none of the land is still in possession of whoever held it 500 years ago.
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Bill