How to find out who owns the field. Help?

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There's a field near my house that is lovely, its got loads of natural shelter and right near mine, literally up a big hill and im there. Its got brill fencing as well as tall hedges all round so you can't see what in it from the road. In the last 5 years i've lived here, i haven't seen anyone go in there at all, or any animals. It's not even used for hay as has ragwort growing everywhere. I've been trying to find out who owns but no one knows? How do i find out who own certain fields? Any ideas?
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Have you tried ringing up the Parish Clerk and ask her if she knows or can find out. There are quite a few farmers on our PC and they generally know who owns what.
 

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I door knocked to find the owner of the one I wanted to rent, eventually found someone who knew who the owner was
 

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You could always try pinning a note to the field gate?

If all else fails the land registry may be able to help, although you will have to pay for the search and not all land is registered.

Try popping into your local chartered surveyors office too on the off chance they may be able to help.

Good luck :)
 

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I had the same issue which our field. Land registery were useless (very nice but totally unable to help) as unless it's been sold in the last 15yrs it's quite poss still on handwritten deeds only!

Either go and ask local farmers or go and knock on doors.
 

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I've done the knocking on doors part, i ended up with a list of 10 possible names of owners because a lot of the people thought it was this or that person but weren't sure, and everyone gave me a different name, so i rang all of the people on my list and non of them own the field and have no idea who does. I might try pinning note to gate, but i honestly haven't seen anyone up there for years but it wont hurt to try this. I'm gonna go take the dog for a walk up that way now and see if there are any farmers working on nearby fields, see if i can get another name hopefully the right one this time :)
 

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Tinseltoes, please can you do something about your sig, it is a whole one and a half times taller than my screen - max size is recommended 700 x 200px. Yours is 764 x 1028!
 

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You can do it yourself much cheaper than that - about £12.00. You'll need a plan of the field in question which you can submit to the Land Registry with a SIM search which costs £5.00. That will tell you if the field is registered or unregistered. if its registered then you can get Official copies of the title which will cost you £8.00. I think its cheaper still if you do it online but I'm not sure if you need to be a registered user to do it that way.
 

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Stick a horse or 2 in there! you will soon find out then! :-D

This plus pull up the ragwort. It could belong to some one who is dead thus no one knows about the field !
The Gypos get away with it :rolleyes: oops am I allowed to say that.
 

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So my walkies with the dog brought a great result! We caught some farmers next to that field, just packing up stuff etc, and i asked them about field, i got a definite name and a number, they were 100% that its the person too so i shall be ringing them this week and see what we can do about the field :D I've also been to check it out closer, and oh my god, the ragwort is awful! I'm 5ft11 and most of it was up to my waist and some even to my shoulders, so it would mean a lot of hours pulling that up! But we'll see :)
 

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Good luck hope you get a good result. We have a field near to our old house would have been great for horses or sheep but the owner had brought it specifically to stop anyone using it when it came up for sale paid well over the odds for it as it was originally part of a shoot. Sad really all that lovely land going to waste hop you have more luck than we did.

If it turns out to be the wrong people try your local church they usually have records of land ownership and a search of the local papers or maps might also give you a bit of an indicator some stay in the hands of the same families for generations.
 

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Well it turns out that actualy the world is very small, because the field belongs to my PE teachers husband :) I will ring him up this week and see if we can sort something out. Like i said, its not been used for years and its full of ragwort. Hopefully we may be able to sort something out :)
 
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