New house boundaries

kite99

In the process of purchasing a new property and looking for someones thoughts on the land boundaries.

The land registry is not really to scale but we don't particularly want to pay the extra conveyancing costs to have this looked at in more detail. The boundary is shared with an old burial ground in which the chapel is no longer there and has been rebuilt on so we have no specific point of contact to discuss this with. The burial ground is mapped with a stone wall, and the house is mapped with a wooden fence. Between the stone wall and fence is around 2m in which is just pure waste land, no right of way or access to this at all. Now the current venders put up the fence and we're wondering who the waste land in the middle belongs to, as if its ours we want to claim it and move the fence further to the brick wall.

As we have no point of contact of the burial ground land would you just claim the land and move up to the brick wall they have set their boundary with and hope you heard nothing from it or pay the extra to get it all looked at officially?

Note: The length of the boundary is around 50m so its a really fair chuck of land we want to claim if it is ours!

Thanks in advance.

daveyjp

If it is where no one would really notice I'd just move the fence.

As you have found structures come and go and compulsory and registration is a relatively new concept so there are lots of plots of land with unknown owners.

National Library of Scotland has a really good resource for old maps if you want to look into why the 2m may have been left.

http://maps.nls.uk/

G_M

Is this Scotland?

If England, do a map enquiry at the Land Registry to see
* who owns the burial ground
* whether anyone is registered as owner of the waste land

Failing that, just remove your fence and start cultivating the waste land up to the stone wall.

If no one objects in the next 12 years, you can then make a claim for adverse possession.