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FOR LAND REGISTRY REP please
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The chances of what you want being available online are pretty well zilch. Go into a library and borrow a book on house history, read it carefully, then go to the archive centre, chat up the staff, and explore the catalogues and indexes. Be prepared to spend some time on it - treat the first visit as no more than a familiarisation exercise.
The bit of my garden concerned isn't big enough to build a house on if that's what is meant, but I can get quite a few extra plants on it. It's mine alright and Naughty Neighbour has admitted it, but my deeds plan is one of the "drawn on back of envelope" standard ones and hence my pleasure that text predominates.
I could explain the layout in detail...but you never know who is reading...
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When you say "archive centre" do you mean archive centre of the library here in my location? It is only a very small library, compared to what I am used to. I'm assuming maybe you mean the National Records Library (or whatever its called??) in Aberystwyth (ie as I am in Wales). Heartsink moment at the thought of just how difficult it would be for me to access that one, given my location and the Welsh bus service between them..
Re book on house history, I'm not quite sure I know what you mean? Do you have the title of a suitable book of the type you have in mind?0 -
I think I'm prepared to give a prize to anyone who can manage to refer to archives without using the D word.
You mean the "d*rn" word...well that's quite mild compared to what I envisage myself uttering at the thought of that:(. This is where I think "Now...if I'd gone to University back when...then I'd have some experience of just how to do this 'dusty old research'."
I think what I need is planning applications. I don't know what form they take, but I'm imagining they must have a plan of the sites concerned. I want to be careful just how many "tracks" I head down, as this research is taking a lot of time I'm supposed to have available for my life instead of "Deal with Blimmin' Troublesome Neighbour" stuff.
Goes off to remind myself of the fact that "If one of my role models can do it (ie Erin Brockovich) then so can I" (ie I don't have to hold down a job and am not dyslexic..so that's two plus points there). I've got the boobs to match hers (if you've seen the references to them in the film about her life!), but I'm too old for flaunting them round the place to do any good any more LOL. These days...its cover-up time....0 -
No dear. The D word in connection with archives is 'dusty'
Go to a library - not your little local lending library but a large one with a good reference section. Ask the librarians for advice. There are any number of books on house history. They are bound to have one or two. Search Amazon for other titles, if the library doesn't have them, they can get them in on inter library loan.
Read and digest. Then go to your county record office and ask about the sort of records they have that might be helpful (they will almost certainly have a leaflet pointing out the main sources since this is a bog standard question). Depending on the age of the house there might be all sorts of stuff. Then again there might be nothing. You don't know until you try.
National Library of Wales might be a possibility, but county records first.0
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