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The live loss question is now the land said to have been taken from Parcel A in 1955: the woodland and the green. Parcel B is no longer the substantive object of the claim; its agricultural possession was surrendered/lost and is not the present remedy target.

The surviving chronology records a High Court possession order in favour of Western Ground Rents and execution on 4 July 1955. The farmhouse and garden were left occupied, but the family position is that Parcel-A woodland and the green were taken at this event.

The new control point is therefore physical and juridical: what exact ground did the warrant/possession process authorise the enforcement officer or WGR to take, and what exact ground was actually taken? That question must be answered by the order, warrant, return, plan and contemporaneous evidence, not by the later use of the phrase “whole farm”.

The Council’s statutory commons information states that the Vale registers were compiled between 1967 and 1970 and that the registers record details of claims to ownership. The Council permits inspection of the statutory register and map by appointment and offers copies of entries/maps. citeturn982810search0

The Wiki records VG41 as registered on 16 June 1970. The complete VG41 file has not yet been obtained. That file is now a high-value target because it can potentially identify exactly what land was registered, who made the registration/ownership claim and what evidence accompanied it.

Welsh Government guidance provides procedures for correcting historical errors in commons and greens registers by adding or removing land where the statutory criteria are satisfied. That does not mean VG41 is wrongly registered; it means the registration record itself is capable of being independently tested if the primary file reveals a mistake. citeturn982810view0turn343265search6

Do not infer Council ownership merely because the Council maintains or administers the register. The project must identify the actual legal estate holder from the VG41 record and Land Registry/current title evidence. A private ownership claim and the public rights associated with a village green are separate questions.

Next human actions: obtain the VG41 file/map; identify the current title; connect the VG41 polygon back to the 1955 execution map; then have counsel assess title, registration and any present protective remedy.