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Windsor Great Park Adventure Play is situated next to The Savill Garden. Take a look at the Windsor Great Park map & guide.

Parking facilities are located the East of Adventure Play

6o minutes

We support groups of up to 12 people

No. The Crown Estate is not the private property of the King. Our assets are hereditary possessions of the Sovereign held ‘in right of the Crown’. This means they belong to the Sovereign for the duration of their reign, but cannot be sold by them, nor do revenues from the assets belong to them.

The UK government does not own The Crown Estate either.

Established by an Act of Parliament in 1961 (see next answer), subsequently amended by The Crown Estate Act 2025, we are an independent, commercial business, managed by a Board (also known as The Crown Estate Commissioners).

This independence is critical to enable us to fulfil our core duties, act commercially and deliver our strategy to create environmental, social and financial value both now and for the long term.

The Crown Estate was established by an Act of Parliament in 1961, subsequently amended by The Crown Estate Act 2025, with two core duties – to grow both the value of the portfolio into perpetuity and the income we return to HM Treasury, with due regard to ‘good management’. Today, we express that through our purpose 'to create lasting and shared prosperity for the nation'.

The history of The Crown Estate before that goes back to 1760 when George III handed over land and property to the Government - with the revenue going to HM Treasury. This was in return for a fixed salary, which before the Sovereign Grant was called the Civil List.

To this day, we continue to give all of our net profit to HM Treasury for the benefit of the nation's finances.

The Treasury is charged by Parliament with general oversight of The Crown Estate’s business and acts as its sponsoring department within government.

“Crown land” is a term people use in different ways, which can make it confusing.

It can refer to land owned by the Monarch in an official role, land that is part of the Monarch’s private estates, land owned by the Duchies, or land owned by the government.

None of these are the same as The Crown Estate. To avoid confusion, we always refer to the land and property we manage as The Crown Estate, not “Crown land”.

No, we do not manage any of the Royal Palaces.

Under our legal system, the Monarch (currently King Charles III), as head of state, owns the superior interest in all land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In most cases, this is usually irrelevant but it can become relevant if a freehold property becomes ownerless. If this happens, freehold land may, in some circumstances, fall to the monarch as the owner of the superior interest. This process is called 'escheat'.

The Crown Estate, by convention only, through its appointed legal advisors Burges Salmon LLP, deals with the vast majority of instances where property may be deemed subject to escheat throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Please note that where properties subject to escheat are located within the Duchy of Lancaster or the Duchy of Cornwall, they will fall to be dealt with by those bodies, respectively.