EV-0065 — HM Land Registry first-registration file WA240304 (farmhouse), Items 4, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 11
| EV ID | EV-0065 |
|---|---|
| Title | HM Land Registry first-registration file WA240304 (farmhouse), Items 4, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 11 |
| Date of document | undated |
| Type | land registry record |
| Evidence label | PRIMARY DOCUMENT — NOT PUBLISHED HERE |
| Repository / reference | HM Land Registry historic/title file; Title number WA240304 (Items 4, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 11) |
| Status | PENDING — Held by HM Land Registry (title WA240304). Status: Open — obtain. Requests complete copies/transcription: register, title class, application form, notices, service evidence, requisitions, responses, D23 material, correspondence, plans, acreage, parcel references. |
| Provenance | No copy held. As of 10 October 2026 no evidence image or source-file link identified. Custodian: Buckler family evidence repository; Original held by HM Land Registry. |
| Wiki catalogue page | FC-002 |
| Claims that rely on this | 1983 First Registration: Parcel A Title Basis and Alleged HMLR Mistake, Claim: Parcel A and Parcel B had distinct histories; the 1987 amalgamation requi, Forensic Evidence Capture — Decisive Document Schedule & Dedicated Placeholders , Great House Farm (Tŷ Mawr): The Williams–Buckler Dispute, Great House Farm: Case Overview and Key Records, HM Land Registry — Forensic Assessment, October 2026 Highlight Report — Forensic Reframe & Control-Point Baseline, PRINCE2 Control Registers, ReOrg, GHF-E135 — 3 July 1974 Mary (Nancy) Williams’s plea of ownership and the pleadings in BP, GHF-E138 — 23 May 1975 BP Pension Trust to BP Properties conveyance and plan (WA |
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Proves: Nothing yet, as the file has not been obtained or examined. WA240304 is identified only as the farmhouse first-registration file/strand.
Does not prove: WA240304 is not synonymous with full Parcel A, which also included the forest north of the house and south-east ground later registered as VG41. Post-death dates do not show improper motive; Missing or contradictory records do not themselves prove fraud or concealment.
Interpretation: working hypotheses
Working hypotheses, kept apart from the record above. The record text on this page is unchanged. None of these is a finding: each line is labelled as inference, theory, a reading that cuts against the case, or a discarded theory, and names the evidence it rests on and what would confirm or refute it, so the reader can test it. Updated 25 Oct 2026 (v2: ingredients wording).
The 1962 → 1974 → 1983 sequence
THEORY · I-01Working hypothesis on the sequence, set out as dated steps for the reader to test. 11 Dec 1962: possession order in Cardiff County Court (EV-0041); the 12-year period from that order ran to 11 Dec 1974. In the 1974 County Court action she pleaded that the claim was barred (EV-0049). 17–19 Sep 1974: BP Pension Trust sought and obtained leave to enforce the 1962 order (EV-0080). 31 Oct 1974: letters permitting her to stay rent-free for life (EV-0050); the Court of Appeal later held that from then on her possession was by licence and no longer adverse (EV-0080). 30 Nov 1982 and 23 Feb 1983: first-registration applications for the fields and for the farmhouse (EV-0059, EV-0065). The hypothesis is that these steps were connected, each taking occupation the family treated as ownership closer to a registered title. No document read so far shows them planned together; W-04 and the discarded entries below set out readings that cut against it.
Rests on: EV-0041 · EV-0049 · EV-0050 · EV-0080 · EV-0059 · EV-0065 (this page)
Would be confirmed by: The 1974 County Court file and leave application (HMCTS reply due 2 Nov 2026) and the 1983 application papers (HM Land Registry subject access request, due 28 Oct 2026) showing the steps were planned as one course of action.
Would be refuted by: Records showing each step was a separate routine act with its own cause (for example, the 1982 internal BP conveyance arising from a group restructuring unrelated to the farm).
Status: Open
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
Three versions of Parcel A
THEORY · P-01Working hypothesis (the family's frame): three versions of Parcel A, the house parcel, which the family calls "synthetic", were created without the occupier as a party — A1, the Forest of Cardiff woodland title WA735527 (1994); A2, BP Properties' farmhouse title WA240304 (1983); A3, the village green VG41 registered by Glamorgan County Council (1970). Each turned land the family regarded as theirs into a registered or statutory parcel held by someone else.
Rests on: EV-0136 · EV-0166 · EV-0169 · EV-0065 (this page) · EV-0066 · EV-0044 · EV-0023
Would be confirmed by: Side-by-side plans showing each parcel overlapping the house parcel on the 1939 tenancy plan, and application papers silent about the person in occupation (LRA 1925 s.70(1)(g)).
Would be refuted by: Plans showing no overlap with the house parcel.
Status: Open (family hypothesis)
Title chain and registration
THEORY · R-02Ground R3: the farmhouse was registered separately (WA240304, Form 1C by Linklaters & Paines, edition 23 Feb 1983) while BP's own 1974 action "has never been finally heard"; the court was told the whole farm had been registered in November 1982. Working hypothesis: the farmhouse application, made with eight-plus years of admitted adverse possession behind her, is the point where the occupation and the unresolved action would have had to be declared.
Rests on: EV-0063 · EV-0065 (this page) · EV-0066 · EV-0080 · EV-0078 · ground R3; research log E91, E98
Would be confirmed by: A Form 1C (Co.) statutory declaration silent about her occupation or claim (subject access request item 11).
Would be refuted by: A declaration that disclosed both. Cuts against: the court's words match the register as merged on 2 Feb 1987, and paper title was never in issue.
Status: Open (ground R3, scores a2 b1 c3 d2)
DISCARDED THEORY · R-04DISCARDED: the theory that a pending land action from the 1974 proceedings was registered and still in force at the Feb 1983 application. Reason: a pending action registration lapses after five years unless renewed, and is entered against the estate owner; any 1974 entry would have lapsed by late 1979.
Rests on: EV-0029 · research log E56
Would be confirmed by: Would be revived by a renewal entry at the Land Charges Department.
Would be refuted by: Refuted by the statute text unless a renewal is found.
Status: Discarded
Cited on
50 pages link here.
- EV-0023 — DBDT123/7 — 1939 agreement, Western Ground Rents to John Williams, with plan
- EV-0041 — Cardiff County Court possession order (farmhouse and garden) — not yet held
- EV-0043 — Conveyance with plan, WGR to BP Pension Trust (recited as root of BP title)
- EV-0044 — VG41 village-green registration: register entry, map and ownership section
- EV-0049 — Mary (Nancy) Williams’s plea of ownership in BP Pension Trust’s 1974 county-court action
- EV-0050 — Licence letters from BP Pension Trust and BP Properties to Mrs Buckler (Mrs Williams)
- EV-0052 — Conveyance and plan, BP Pension Trust to BP Properties (farmhouse and garden)
- EV-0059 — Form A13: documents lodged at first registration, title WA231076 (Item 17)
- EV-0063 — WA240304 item 11: Form 1C application & solicitor’s certificate of title
- EV-0066 — WA240304 file item 10: register / first-registration application, 23 February 1983
- EV-0078 — Amalgamation application and supporting plan (WA231076 item 14)
- EV-0080 — Court of Appeal judgment: BP Properties Ltd v Buckler [1987] EWCA Civ 2
- EV-0136 — Transfer of the woodland to Forest of Cardiff (title WA735527), with plan
- EV-0139 — Transfer, Forest of Cardiff to Goldsworthy Homes, excision from title WA735527
- EV-0158 — HM Land Registry letter ref. N610CGV concerning title WA231076
- EV-0166 — HM Land Registry title plan for WA735527 (current copy)
- EV-0167 — HM Land Registry title plan for title WA231076
- EV-0169 — HM Land Registry title register for WA735527, September 2026 copy
- EV-0170 — HM Land Registry title register for title WA231076
- EV-0263 — Commons Registration Act 1965 s.5 and SI 1968/989: registrations were publicised by public notice only; Glamorgan County Council’s London Gazette notices of 22 October 1968 and 24 October 1969; second objection period for VG41 ran 1 May 1970 – 31 July 1972
- Evidence Register
- Pending Evidence
- Wayback artifact index
- 1000 Cuts · a dated chronology of the Williams family at Great House Farm, 1870s–1988
- 1000 Cuts: a dated chronology of the Williams family at Great House Farm (1870s–1988) — Great House Farm Wiki
- DBDT123/7 — 1939 WGR–John Williams Tenancy Agreement + Plan
- El caso de la familia · Argentina
- EV-0065 — HM Land Registry first-registration file WA240304 (farmhouse), Items 4, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 11
- FC-001 — WA231076 Item 17: Form A13 Documents Lodged at First Registration
- FC-002 — WA240304 Items 4, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 11: Farmhouse First-Registration File
- FC-004 — 2 February 1987: Amalgamation Application and Supporting Plan
- GHF-E106-R27-A1 — HM Land Registry N610CGV letter for WA231076, 13 July 2026
- GHF-E130 — 11 December 1962 Cardiff County Court possession order (farmhouse and garden), with claim and plan
- GHF-E131 — 31 December 1969 WGR to BP Pension Trust conveyance (root of title), with plan
- GHF-E133 — 16 June 1970 VG41 village-green registration, map and ownership section
- GHF-E135 — 3 July 1974 Mary (Nancy) Williams’s plea of ownership and the pleadings in BP Pension Trust’s county-court action
- GHF-E136 — 31 October 1974 licence letters (BP Pension Trust and BP Properties)
- GHF-E138 — 23 May 1975 BP Pension Trust to BP Properties conveyance and plan (WA240304 items 1, 12, 13)
- GHF-E141 — 31 July 1987 Court of Appeal judgment: BP Properties Ltd v Buckler [1987] EWCA Civ 2
- GHF-E149 — 10 November 1994 transfer of the woodland to Forest of Cardiff (WA735527), with plan and consideration
- GHF-E150 — 2005 Forest of Cardiff to Goldsworthy Homes transfer and excision from WA735527
- GHF-E161 — WA231076 title register, September 2026
- GHF-E162 — WA231076 title plan, September 2026
- GHF-E163 — WA735527 title register, September 2026
- GHF-E164 — WA735527 title plan, September 2026
- Mary (Nancy) Williams
- MR-0020 HM Land Registry Form A13 (list of documents lodged), examiner's requi — Research Library
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