[Recovered on 19 Oct 2026 from the original email in the family's Gmail, because this archive file was missing. Matched to this entry by its subject line; where several emails share a subject, the order within the group is not certain. Email addresses, phone numbers and private addresses are redacted.]

Subject: Great House Farm, Llandough
From: Sion Buckler
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2026 04:12 UTC
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Sirs/ Ma'ams,

I need to correct a date I have used in earlier correspondence about Great
House Farm / Tŷ Mawr, Llandough, titles WA231076 and WA240304.

I had treated 1983 as the year the two titles were merged. That was wrong.
HM Land Registry’s own letter of 23 March 2026 (Lisa Griffiths, ref
N610CGV) separates the two acts.
1982–83 was first registration of two live titles, not a merger.
30 November 1982: application to first-register WA231076. The Court of
Appeal later treated BP Properties Ltd as registered proprietors of “the
farm” from November 1982.
23 February 1983: application to first-register a second title, WA240304.
26 March 1983: Mary Williams died. On the family’s case, notice of those
applications did not reach us until after her death, while the family was
in mourning. She had no window in which to object. The family was not in a
position to use any window that arrived after that.
Those two titles remained separate through first instance.
24 July 1986: Hollis J. Both titles were still live. The judgment language
treats Great House Farm as one holding. It had not been one holding on the
register. On the family’s case it had not been one holding since the 1877
split: Parcel A (house, buildings, garden/yard and about 10 acres, the
Thomas/Williams line) and Parcel B (the eastern fields retained by Bute and
later WGR/BP).
2 February 1987: application to amalgamate the two titles. WA240304 was
then closed and registration continued under WA231076. That is the merge.
It was made after the 1986 ruling and before the Court of Appeal gave
judgment on 31 July 1987.
So 1983 is silent first registration of a second title while Mary was still
in Parcel A, or had only just died. 1987 is the administrative merger,
carried out while the appeal was still open.
This was not a dispute about a single land parcel that BP already owned.
Mary was on Parcel A, which the family says she owned, with occupation on
that house parcel running in the family from at least 1667. BP, and WGR
before it from 1949, were the neighbouring interest on Parcel B. From 1949
onwards the family’s case is that those neighbours ran a decades-long
series of tenancy offers, “whole farm” wording, possession orders and the
1974 letters to make her occupation of her own parcel look permissive, and
to make both parcels look like one estate they had acquired. They never
produced a conveyance of Parcel A. What they had was an unfounded claim
that her occupancy was permissive.
Please treat any earlier letter from me that said the titles merged in 1983
as corrected by this email. The dates that matter are:
1982/83 — first registration of two titles, without the occupier being
heard;
24 July 1986 — first-instance judgment describing one farm while two titles
still stood;
2 February 1987 — amalgamation, before the appeal ended;
31 July 1987 — Court of Appeal.
Yours faithfully,

Sion Buckler
Refs where relevant: N610CGV; 260919-6726246; titles WA231076 and WA240304.
Sion Buckler (Ret'd Sergeant)
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