How comes over 50% of the land in England is owned by less than 1% of the population?

Question

And what’s the history behind it?

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Answer 1

You’re gonna want to look into the whole of European feudalism… but farmers who own their own land aren’t serfs anymore, thankfully, and I believe they own a lot more land than the estates of barons and earls

But (at least in the US) there’s a lot of farms owned by absentee businessmen who aren’t that different from feudal lords