GHF-E158 — HM Land Registry schedule of first-registration documents, WA231076 and WA240304, 30 July 2026
Wiki catalogue reference: GHF-E158 · Custodian / source URL: Buckler family evidence repository
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1. Evidence object
Evidence ID: GHF-E158
Document: HM Land Registry schedule of first-registration documents, WA231076 and WA240304, 30 July 2026
Date shown by file title: 30 July 2026
Current object status: PDF upload linked below; content/provenance review remains to be completed.
Notes: Record every listed item number, form/document type and whether a copy was supplied, withheld, said to be absent, or still to be retrieved. The schedule alone is not a substitute for the items it lists.
Original/copy currently uploaded: Open the PDF source file.
Catalogue UID: GHF-E158 · Custodian/source copy: open source object. Preview and provenance status as at 10-10-2026.
Description
4. Checks and limitations
2. Description and provenance
Catalogue status — as at 10-10-2026: A dedicated catalogue record is maintained for this distinct source item. The media-library upload is linked below; its operative text has not been independently transcribed as part of this catalogue creation step. The file title is a discovery aid, not proof of the document’s contents.
Uploaded PDF titled “2026-07-30 HMLR schedule of first-registration documents WA231076 and WA240304”. It is a schedule/index and must be distinguished from each underlying registered document or application.
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Wiki assessment date: 10-10-2026. This date marks the present catalogue assessment, not the historical event.
Transcription
Open transcription
No verbatim transcription is included in this entry as at 10-10-2026. Where the source contains legible text, transcribe it faithfully and mark illegible or uncertain words rather than silently reconstructing them.
Interpretation and wider context
Record every listed item number, form/document type and whether a copy was supplied, withheld, said to be absent, or still to be retrieved. The schedule alone is not a substitute for the items it lists.
This item belongs in the documentary chain because a contemporaneous decision or letter may establish what the sender or decision-maker recorded, the timing of the administrative action, the material referred to, and the route offered for review or escalation. Its evidential weight depends on the complete text, context, attachments, date metadata and provenance. A letter title or upload filename alone does not prove the reasoning, legal correctness, underlying land title, or any person’s state of mind.
Interpretive assessment date: 10-10-2026.
Page version & change log
Current version: 1.0.0
| Version | Date (UTC) | Editor (human or agent name) | Change | Source / evidence |
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| 1.0.0 | 2026-10-18T15:41Z | Cedwyn editors | Footer standardised; earlier log rows carried into this table; no content change | Editing Protocol, 18 Oct 2026 |
| 2026-10-18 (rollout date; exact time not separately recorded) | OpenAI-assisted maintenance agent (GPT-6) | Installed the page-local append-only change log and agent instructions. Existing page content was not intentionally rewritten. | User-directed site-wide changelog standard. Saved via WordPress API; public rendering of this page not yet independently checked. |
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Interpretation: working hypotheses
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Why 1983
INFERENCE · W-03The farmhouse title was applied for on 23 Feb 1983, while she was alive and in occupation, and examined after her death (26 Mar 1983 in family records; "March 1983" in the judgment). HM Land Registry's 30 Jul 2026 schedule lists a D23 "inside exam" form with a Linklaters letter of 8 Apr 1983, correspondence of 12 Apr 1983, and Linklaters/Registry letters of 12 May 1983. The register edition carries the application date, 23 Feb 1983 (record). Working hypothesis: whatever the Registry asked about occupation was answered after the occupier had died, while the finished title speaks from a date when she was alive. The content of the three letters is not yet read.
Rests on: EV-0063 · EV-0066 · EV-0069 · EV-0070 · EV-0071 · EV-0161 · research log E133
Would be confirmed by: The 8 Apr, 12 Apr and 12 May 1983 letters (HM Land Registry subject access request, due 28 Oct 2026). If they described the house as vacant, or omitted her son in occupation, this reading is strengthened.
Would be refuted by: The same letters disclosing the occupation and BP's unresolved 1974 action to the Registry.
Status: Open; decisive input due 28 Oct 2026
The 1974 licence letters
THEORY · L-01Ground R1: the Court of Appeal answered the "wrong company" argument only from the letters' own words that BP Properties Ltd "had agreed to buy". Completion came on 23 May 1975, and HM Land Registry's schedule lists a plan to the sale dated 23 Feb 1975, almost four months after the letters. Working hypothesis: if no binding agreement existed on 31 Oct 1974, BP Properties had nothing to licence.
Rests on: EV-0050 · EV-0052 · EV-0080 · EV-0161 · ground R1
Would be confirmed by: BP Archive or Registry papers showing no agreement before Feb–May 1975.
Would be refuted by: A dated contract or board minute before 31 Oct 1974. Cuts against: an unwritten agreement is not void (E28); a press snippet suggests the two companies shared an officer in 1972, so a group decision recorded only internally is plausible (E124, not yet confirmed); the 23 Feb 1975 date may be a clerical carry-over in the Registry's letter (E81).
Status: Open (ground R1, scores a1 b3 c2 d1)