A: Disputes about who owns what land arise regularly. When trying to understand where boundaries lie, a landowner frequently starts with the Land Registry plan. Yet such plans are usually not determinative of the precise legal location of a boundary.
Instead, should this dispute require legal action, the court would look at the deeds, and in particular the first transaction that split up a plot. These often give quite detailed descriptions of what was being conveyed, either in words or by reference to a plan with detailed measurements on it. Particular features might be referred to.