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Why the sleepy old CoE is just a greedy, moneygrubbing property tycoon

20 January 2018

9:00 AM

20 January 2018

9:00 AM

Holy smoke! The sleepy old Church of England is a greedy, money-grubbing property tycoon. This month, it emerged that since 2010 the church has laid claim to minerals under 585,000 acres of land, including territory it doesn’t actually own. Its current holdings amount to only 105,000 acres, but it retains the underground mineral rights to vast areas that used to belong to the church.

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