"the UK land registry isn't a perfect system at all" No shit! I was an Army brat and lived in what was called West Germany. It may have been a state thing (N

"the UK land registry isn't a perfect system at all" No shit! I was an Army brat and lived in what was called West Germany. It may have been a state thing (Nord Rhein OP) rather than a federal thing but houses often had little markers, similar to surveying benchmarks to demarcate property boundaries. In little Britain we have err the Land Registry. It's not quite as bad as you say. Since around 2007-2010 (I can't remember exactly when) plans submitted to Planning had to have a lot more detail added. For example you have to include trees and hedges but not co-ords of the boundary to 5mm from the nearest OBM. I can personally survey better than that and I'm just a Civ Eng graduate who ended up pissing around with computers. My house came with its original and subsequent conveyancing docs. It was built in the 1920s, so quite modern. The farmer who flogged off a bit of land, near to a railway line also provided a mortgage/loan to the woman who bought it. Its been through a few hands since. One of the subsequent owners lives up the road. He and his wife (she passed away recently) divided the plot, another house was built and a double garage linking the houses was added. Anyway, the Land Registry is quite loose but it works. It seems that Little Britain is quite content on a microscopic scale. We somehow manage to not get too whizzed up over boundaries too often. The boundaries somehow manage to manage themselves.