Editing National Trust (section)

===Coastline and countryside===
[[File:Worm's Head (Rhossili).jpg|thumb|Cliffs and Worm's Head at [[Rhossili]]]]
The National Trust is the largest private landowner in the United Kingdom.<ref name="Whyte">{{cite book|author=Ian D. Whyte|title=A Dictionary of Environmental History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CjjgfTcONZcC|date=2013|publisher=I.B. Tauris|isbn=978-1-84511-462-6|page=346}}</ref> The Trust's land holdings account for almost {{convert|250,000|ha|acre km2 sqmi}}, mostly of countryside.<ref name="Annual Report 2019/20"/> A large part of this consists of parks and agricultural estates attached to country houses, but there are many countryside properties which were acquired specifically for their scenic or scientific value. The Trust owns or has covenant over about a quarter of the [[Lake District]]; it has similar control over about 12% of the [[Peak District National Park]] (e.g. [[South Peak Estate]] and [[High Peak Estate]]).<ref name="Whyte"/>

Most National Trust land, about {{convert|200,000|ha|acre km2 sqmi}}, consists of tenant or in-hand farms, where public access is restricted to [[Rights of way in England and Wales|rights of way]] and sometimes additional routes.<ref name="Annual Report 2019/20"/><ref name=Coast>{{cite book|title=Coast and Countryside Handbook |date=2000 |publisher=The National Trust|location=London}}</ref>{{rp|5–6}} At [[Wimpole Estate]] in Cambridgeshire, the home farm is open to the public.{{r|Houses|p=344}} The Trust also owns forests, woods, downs, and moorland.{{r|Houses|p=4}} These areas are generally open to the public free of charge, as are some of the parks attached to country houses (others have an admission charge).{{r|Houses|p=6}}

The Trust owns or protects roughly one-fifth of the coastline in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland ({{convert|780|mi}}), and has a long-term campaign, [[Project Neptune (National Trust)|Project Neptune]], which seeks to acquire more.<ref name="Annual Report 2019/20"/>