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The Crown Estate is an estate in land only, apart from cash and gilts holdings necessary for the conduct of business. The Crown Estate Commissioners, who comprise the main board, are approved by the monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister. They are limited to eight persons. The board of commissioners have a duty to:
Crown Estate Scotland was established by The Crown Estate Scotland (Interim Management) Order 2017. Under the Crown Estate Transfer Scheme 2017, the existing functions of the Crown Estate Commissioners and the rights and liabilities set out in the transfer scheme transferred from the Crown Estate Commissioners to Crown Estate Scotland on 1 ...
From the City of London, via the Thames Conservancy, the PLA inherited the conservancy, management and control of the river instead of ownership of the bed of the river and foreshore (the Crown was prohibited from alienating any of its lands by section 5 of the Crown Lands Act 1702; the Crown was presumed to own the bed of Thames and 'as ...
The estuary is a ria and so is larger than would be the case given the size of the River Exe, the main river feeding into the estuary. On the east shore (from north to south) is the town of Topsham , the villages of Exton and Lympstone and at the estuary mouth, the seaside resort of Exmouth .
The southernmost portion of the very long and quite narrow, almost rectangular Crown Estate has been assigned to and converted to Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for Disabled People's Training College and its Dorincourt home for the disabled, Woodlands Park Golf Course, Leatherhead, and Tyrwhitt House, a combat stress centre.
"The archaeology of the intertidal wetlands of the Humber Estuary is of international importance, and includes prehistoric boats, trackways, fishtraps and platforms, Roman settlements and ports and Post-Medieval fishweirs." [2] The foreshore of North Ferriby, within the Humber Estuary, is the site of the earliest sewn plank boats known outside ...
Sunk Island is a Crown Estate village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.It lies 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (6 km) south of Ottringham and 1 mile (1.6 km) to the north of the Humber Estuary.
The Ribble Estuary, the largest SSSI in Merseyside. This is a list of the Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in Merseyside, which is part of North West England. Merseyside has a population of 1,353,600 making it one of the most densely populated areas of the United Kingdom. [1]