Paper deeds are no longer relevant to property ownership in the UK. The HM Land Registry records are authoritative (subject to legal challenges). See for exampl

Paper deeds are no longer relevant to property ownership in the UK. The HM Land Registry records are authoritative (subject to legal challenges). See for example: https://hmlandregistry.blog.gov.uk/2018/02/19/title-deeds/ https://hmlandregistry.blog.gov.uk/2018/02/19/title-deeds/ Edit: technically they are still relevant if the property has not been sold since the records were digitised in the 1990s