Please find below assorted facts and figures about The Crown Estate in Scotland.

Financial

• The total capital value of The Crown Estate in Scotland in 2007/08 was £237.0 million.
• Total turnover in Scotland for 2007/08 was £13.9 million.
• Net revenue surplus (profit) in Scotland for 2007/08 was £10.0 million, representing 5% of The Crown Estate’s total net revenue surplus.
• The total property value of The Crown Estate in Scotland represents 4% of The Crown Estate across the UK.

Marine

• Over £1.4 million has been spent by The Crown Estate’s programme of marine stewardship in Scotland.
• The Crown Estate owns and manages around half of the foreshore and almost all of the seabed out to the 12 nautical mile territorial limit.
• Many of the private boat moorings owned by The Crown Estate around the Scottish coast cost less than 10p a day.
• In Scotland oysters and mussels are part of The Crown Estate and are not a public fishery.

Rural

• The Crown Estate owns and manage five rural estates in Scotland; Applegirth, Fochabers, Glenlivet, Stirling and Whitehill.
• In total, these estates extend to around 36,000 hectares (89,000 acres) and host nine Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
• There are almost 350 tenancies on our five rural estates, of which 180 are agricultural. There are also about 130 farms, and two of these are greater than 1,000 acres in size.
• The Crown Estate has commenced a programme to introduce Limited Duration Tenancies (LDTs) and Short Limited Duration Tenancies (SLDTs) under the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 2003.
• Scottish salmon fishings form part of the regalia minora, with the presumption of ownership remaining with the Crown; the exceptions to this being the licences associated with our Applegirth, Fochabers and Glenlivet estates.
• We have approximately 140 tenancies of river fishings, about 50 of which are in favour of angling clubs or associations.
• Leases of headwaters fisheries have been granted in favour of the River Tweed Commissioners to enable them to protect valuable spawning stock from over-exploitation by anglers.
• The Crown Estate in Scotland directly manages over almost 5,000 hectares of forestry.
• The Crown Estate holds the right to all naturally occurring gold and silver in the UK, although in some limited areas of Scotland this right to ‘Mines Royal’ was transferred from the Crown by ancient charter.

For further information on our Scottish holdings, please visit our Scotland page.