Director/PDMR Shareholding

British Land Co PLC
30 August 2005

Notification of monthly investment in the British Land Share Incentive Plan 
('SIP')



Hill Samuel ESOP Trustees Limited (the 'Trustees'), Trustees of the British Land
SIP, today notified the Company that they purchased on 26th August 2005 a total
of 72,779 ordinary 25p shares at a price of 862.5 pence per share under the 
'Free Share' element of the Company's SIP.   The SIP has been approved by the
Inland Revenue as a share incentive plan under Schedule 8 of the Finance Act
2000.



As participants in the SIP the executive directors and persons discharging
managerial responsibilities named below are deemed to have an interest in the
shares held by the Trustees.



The Company also received notification from the Trustees, that 'Free Shares'
awarded to the Company's directors and persons discharging managerial
responsibilities were as follows:


                                       Number of Free Shares acquired under 
                                       the SIP
Directors
J H Ritblat                            347
J H Weston Smith                       347
N S J Ritblat                          347
R E Bowden                             347
G C Roberts                            347
Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities
T A Roberts                            347

A Braine                               347








30th August 2005.








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