Oxbridge colleges own more land than the Church of England, including the O2 arena in London and the Rose Bowl cricket ground in Hampshire, it was revealed yesterday.
The colleges have a portfolio of properties worth £3.5bn, with land and buildings spread over 126,000 acres — about a third of the size of greater London, it was claimed.
The Church of England, said to be Britain’s largest landowner, owns 100,000 acres across 41 dioceses.
