Who Owns England’s Woods? (2020)
Something that always seems wild to me in England is that there is no exact record of property boundaries. Specifically, in England and Wales there&#x27;s usually no record of the exact boundary between two properties and who owns the hedge, wall, tree or fence between 2 properties[1].<p>There are only &quot;title plans&quot; held by HM Land Registry, that may or may not include information about who owns the wall and exactly what delineates the property line. If you want to see the &quot;title plan&quot;, you even have to pay a small fee each time for the privilege. I can&#x27;t understand why they would do that except to slow the flow of information.<p>I recently looked on US property websites and was surprised that the map showed the exact edge of the property as well as every other property around it. That just isn&#x27;t possible in England. No such map seems to exist unless I&#x27;ve understood things incorrectly.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;your-property-boundaries#legalboundaries" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;your-property-boundaries#legalboundaries</a>