On 08/11/2013 01:07, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote: > Land registration started in the north of Scotland and was only extended > to the whole of the south of England around 25 years ago. And the > electronic data is not held for before 1993. Electoral rolls might be a > better bet and the British Library holds those for 1885. According to http://data.gov.uk/publisher/land-registry: "Land Registry is the government agency created in 1862 to register the ownership of land and property in England and Wales. We keep and maintain the Land Register, where more than 23 million titles – the evidence of ownership – are documented." I recall there was some concern about the projected destruction of historical titles ie anything before a set date and also not keeping any except in electronic format. I don't know whether it went ahead or whether there was a degree of culling. I saw the title for a 19th century house in the late 1990s when I was trying to identify a particular house which I was later able to explore. It might still be worth checking with the local land registry to see if they still exist for The Den. The record office might hold something as well. The record office should have the Electoral Rolls from 1832 onwards. -- Connie http://oursalmons.wordpress.com/