Director/PDMR Shareholding

British Land Co PLC
29 August 2007

Notification of Free Share purchase under the British Land Share Incentive Plan
('SIP')

Hill Samuel ESOP Trustees Limited (the 'Trustees'), Trustees of the British Land
SIP, notified the Company on 29th August 2007 that they purchased on 24th August
2007 a total of 52,382 ordinary 25p shares at a price of £12.612708 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 on 29th August 2007 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
S A M Hester                     238
R E Bowden                       238
G C Roberts                      238
T A Roberts                      238
A M Jones                        238

Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibilities
V T Beresford                    238
A Braine                         238
P C Clarke                       238
N M Webb                         238



29th August 2007.







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