In reply to The Pylon King:
Definitely interesting. Is it possible for common land to be in private ownership? From what I understand from a quick google... it is. But curiously there is nothing about common land on the register accompanying the title. Makes me think Magic Map isn't correct.
I've copy and pasted below. I redacted owner name and address. Anyone deeply interested can get hold of the document for £3 on the land registry site.
Title Number : ST7523 This title is dealt with by HM Land Registry, Plymouth Office. The following extract contains information taken from the register of the above title number. A full copy of the register accompanies this document and you should read that in order to be sure that these brief details are complete. Neither this extract nor the full copy is an 'Official Copy' of the register. An official copy of the register is admissible in evidence in a court to the same extent as the original. A person is entitled to be indemnified by the registrar if he or she suffers loss by reason of a mistake in an official copy. This extract shows information current on 9 FEB 2022 at 14:26:10 and so does not take account of any application made after that time even if pending in HM Land Registry when this extract was issued.
REGISTER EXTRACT Title Number : ST7523 Address of Property : Land at Gully Wood, Warleigh, Bath Price Stated : £65,000 Registered Owner(s) : XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. Lender(s) : None
This is a copy of the register of the title number set out immediately below, showing the entries in the register on 9 FEB 2022 at 14:26:10. This copy does not take account of any application made after that time even if still pending in HM Land Registry when this copy was issued. This copy is not an 'Official Copy' of the register. An official copy of the register is admissible in evidence in a court to the same extent as the original. A person is entitled to be indemnified by the registrar if he or she suffers loss by reason of a mistake in an official copy. If you want to obtain an official copy, the HM Land Registry web site explains how to do this.
A: Property Register This register describes the land and estate comprised in the title. BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET 1 (02.09.1964) The Freehold land shown edged with red on the plan of the above Title filed at the Registry and being Land at Gully Wood, Warleigh, Bath. 2 The Conveyance dated 1 October 1957 referred to in the Charges Register is expressed to grant the following right:- "TOGETHER with a right of way for the Company and its successors in title at all times and for all purposes over and along the road or track between the points marked V and W on the said plan" NOTE: The points V and W on the Conveyance plan are similarly shown on the filed plan.
B: Proprietorship Register This register specifies the class of title and identifies the owner. It contains any entries that affect the right of disposal. Title possessory 1 (23.05.2019) PROPRIETOR: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. 2 (23.05.2019) The value stated as at 23 May 2019 was £65,000.
C: Charges Register This register contains any charges and other matters that affect the land. 1 An Agreement under seal dated 1 August 1938 made between (1) Anna Dorothea Mary Skrine (2) Ferdinande Anna Josephine De Lagarenne, Christopher Bevan Thring, Charles Paston Crane and Francis Osmond Joseph Huntley (3) Mary Alice Caroline Crane, Margaret Cecely Mowll, Frances Ethel Rosamund Staveley and Alexander Duncan Skrine (4) Ferdinande Anna Josephine De Lagarenne (5) The Rural District Council of Bathavon and (6) The County Council of the Administrative County of Somerset contains restrictive covenants. NOTE: Copy filed under ST6752. 2 A Conveyance of the land in this title and other land dated 1 October 1957 made between (1) The Right Reverend Edward Worsfold Mowll, Walter Vivian Douglas Skrine and Ralph Lambert Duncan Skrine (Vendors) and (2) Forge Valley Woodlands Limited (Company) contains the following covenants:- "THE Company for itself and its successors in title hereby covenants with the Vendors as follows:-
C: Charges Register continued For the benefit and protection of the said Warleigh Estate Water Supply not to impede polute or interfere with or knowingly permit to be impeded polluted or interfered with such springs and apparatus or the catchment area connected with such supply as are situate in or upon Gully Wood aforesaid but the Company shall be under no liability in respect of this covenant after it shall have parted with all interest in Gully Wood aforesaid." 3 By the Conveyance dated 1 October 1957 referred to above the land was conveyed subject to the following rights:- "To all such rights privileges and advantages whether as regards way support water drainage sewerage electricity light or of laying and maintaining cables water or other pipes or mains of any nature whatsoever for the benefit of any property now or formerly forming part of the Claverton and Warleigh Estates as the owners tenants or occupiers of such property are now or have been accustomed to enjoy by way of easements quasi-easements profits a prendre or otherwise." 4 A Conveyance of the land in this title and other land dated 31 December 1959 made between (1) Forge Valley Woodlands Limited (Vendor) and (2) Gladys Couper Fraser, William Harold Thomson and Derek Ballance Thomson (Purchasers) contains the following covenants:- "FOR the benefit of the adjoining or neighbouring property known as Warleigh Manor and in the interests of the amenity the Purchasers hereby jointly and severally covenant with the Vendor that the Purchasers and the persons deriving title under them will cultivate and manage the property hereby conveyed in accordance with the practice of good forestry and a plan of restocking to be agreed with the Forestry Commission and will not sell the said property or any part thereof without including in the Conveyance or transfer a similar covenant by the then purchaser." 5 (20.02.2006) The land is subject to the following profit a prendre in gross reserved by the Conveyance dated 1 October 1957 referred to above:- "EXCEPT AND RESERVED unto the Vendors and their successors in title in fee simple First out of the properties Thirdly and Fourthly described all game wild fowl woodcock and hares upon such last-mentioned properties together with the exclusive rights of preserving shooting and taking the same and of authorising others to do so". NOTE: The land in this title comprised the land 'Fourthly' described in the said Conveyance. The profit a prendre in gross title is registered under ST242822. End of register
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