how to find out who owns a field.

[Chap]

Looking to find out who owns a specific 2 acre field on our boundary. tried the land registry website but all I can find is a property search. I know it only works on land that has been registered. says something about £57 for a title search and then £3 for a search on the government website.

Been going around in circles on the internet for a while any ideas?

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

Ask all the local farmers .

 

[7610 super q]

Start ploughing it up, first angry person to turn up will be the owner

 

[TheRanger]

Put some sheep on it

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

Pitch a tent in it with your phone number on it .

 

[Kevtherev]

Ask around

 

[haulmblower]

Not metal detect in it

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Start ploughing it up, first angry person to turn up will be the owner

Dad knocked a gateway into an old garden and ruin next door, been asking for years who owned it, had a phone call from Australia within 24 hours, ended up buying the dead title

 

[Dry Rot]

Local old folks home?

 

[RobFZS]

ask around, we fancied renting a field across the road from us and had to ring round to find out who's it was, turned out to be some random farmer 10 miles away

 

[Old Boar]

How do you farm randoms? Do they have to be quality assured?

 

[haulmblower]

How do you farm randoms? Do they have to be quality assured?

I thought that was a make of plough

 

[essexpete]

I wonder if you have picked up an independent company that will conduct a search on your behalf. The search fees with land reg are only a few quid. Did you find the site by google?

 

[Chap]

Yes by google it seems easy enough to find a property ownership but a parcel of land a different story

 

[Nearly]

Searching land registry is not easy to do if you don't know. I posted in a previous thread. You have to zoom in very close, then tick the on box, then click on the field again.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Looking to find out who owns a specific 2 acre field on our boundary. tried the land registry website but all I can find is a property search. I know it only works on land that has been registered. says something about £57 for a title search and then £3 for a search on the government website.

Been going around in circles on the internet for a while any ideas?

Is anyone farming it

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

It costs £6 for a land title search through Land Registry, I know this to be fact as have just done it for the exact same reason. My solicitor did it for me and didn't charge a fee, the £6 going to Land Registry.

 

[Nearly]

It costs £6 for a land title search through Land Registry, I know this to be fact as have just done it for the exact same reason. My solicitor did it for me and didn't charge a fee, the £6 going to Land Registry.

£3 for details, £3 for map.

 

[Nearly]

A land registry search could be a waste of money if the land has not changed hands since 1990 when registration became compulsory.
Occupying neglected land might flush out an owner, occupying farmed land just to find out who owns it, will not lead to a sensible relationship with the owner but could lead to a smack in the mouth!

If it's not registered then a search on the landregistry.gov.uk site will just come back as nothing found, nothing to pay.
Ignore the agents trying to extract money online and do it yourself, or message me.

edit - you have to register on LR site to do full search and pay afterwards.

 

[roscoe erf]

get the local pykies to move in someone will soon find out who owns it