The story of Great House Farm (Tŷ Mawr), Llandough, from the first surveys to the requests of 2026, told era by era. Every line carries one of four tags: Record (what a document shows, with its source), Deduction (what the records together imply, with the reasoning), Hypothesis (a theory, with a likelihood and what would confirm or break it) and Missing (a record that should exist, where it would be and who holds it). Event numbers (CH-…) open the central chronology; “CA 1987” links the Court of Appeal judgment.

Before 1824 · the estate and the house5112
  • Recordc. 650 St Dochdwy’s, beside the farm, is thought to be an early monastery site.CH-0001
  • Record1667 Mary (Nancy) Williams’s statement (c. 1974) dates the Williams family’s occupancy of the farm to 1667.CH-0003
  • MissingAny written record before 1824 naming a Williams at Tŷ Mawr (baptisms, burials, estate rentals).Where: Llandough parish registers (P35) and Herbert/Hurst estate papers. Held by: Glamorgan Archives.
  • Record1786–1832 Estate plans of lands in Cogan, Llandough-juxta-Penarth, Penarth, St Andrews Major and Sully (Herbert of White Friars / Hurst estate).CH-0004 · Media register MR-0223
  • Recordc. 1790 Plan of “Ty Mawr farm, Llandough”, then “Gedrych property” (Glamorgan Archives DMAT/279); a second plan c. 1800 (DXJF/61/12).CH-0005 CH-0006
  • Record1811 National Library of Wales deeds D153/1–2: “a dwelling house adjoining the churchyard” in Llandough (catalogue entry; deeds unread).qa: Glamorgan Archives 2026/4274
  • DeductionThe farm was in another ownership (“Gedrych property”) around 1790 and was a Bute estate farm by 1824.Reasoning: The 1790 plan names Gedrych; the 1824 survey is a survey of the Bute estates.
  • Hypothesispossible The ownership chain shown on the parcel graphic, Herbert → Vaughan → Bute, describes how Tŷ Mawr reached the Bute estate.Would confirm: the conveyance into Bute, or an abstract reciting it. Would break it: a deed showing Bute held Tŷ Mawr through a different line.
  • MissingThe conveyance by which the Bute estate acquired Tŷ Mawr.Where: Bute estate deeds (D153 and other D series; Bute X series). Held by: National Library of Wales; Cardiff Central Library.
1824–1874 · Bute’s farm and the Williams generations5232
  • Record1824 Stewart’s survey of the Bute estates, plan 19, “Cedfin or Ty Mawr Farm”: 139a 3r 8p, including 20a 2r 35p of wood. The occupier is read as John Gedrick. 10a 3r 39p of “late Thos. Williams” land is added (Glamorgan Archives DB/E/1; EV-0211).CH-0008 CH-0009
  • DeductionIn 1824 the Williams name is attached to an add-on of about 11 acres, not to the whole farm, and Thos. Williams was dead by then.Reasoning: The survey lists another occupier for the farm and calls the added land “late Thos. Williams” land.
  • Hypothesispossible The “late Thos. Williams” land had been a small Williams holding (perhaps freehold) taken into the Bute farm after his death. That would fit a family memory of once owning land there.Would confirm: a Bute purchase deed or rental entry for that land, c. 1800–1824. Would break it: a rental showing Thos. Williams paying Bute rent for it.
  • MissingThe Bute rentals for Llandough from 1824 (who paid for Tŷ Mawr, and from when).Where: Bute estate rentals. Held by: National Library of Wales; Glamorgan Archives (DB series).
  • Record1841–42 Tithe plan and apportionment for Llandough-juxta-Penarth (Glamorgan Archives P35, P35/10).CH-0011 CH-0012
  • MissingThe tithe apportionment lines for Tŷ Mawr (owner, occupier, acreage) and the 1841 and 1851 census entries for the farm.Where: Tithe apportionment P35/10; census HO 107. Held by: Glamorgan Archives; The National Archives.
  • Record1855 A John Williams “succeeded his father in the occupancy of the farm in 1855” (Cardiff Times, 16 Jul 1904; EV-0224).CH-0013
  • Record23 Dec 1864 Amy Williams, “relict of the late Mr. John Williams, Great House farm”, dies at Llandough aged 65 (EV-0246).CH-0014
  • Record1872–1875 John Williams is rated for glebe land (owner Rev. H. H. Rickards); Worrall’s Directory (1875) lists “Williams John, Great house”. Later directories list him there to 1901.CH-0018 CH-0019
  • DeductionThe record shows one Thomas, then at least three John Williamses: (1) the John who died before 1864, husband of Amy; (2) his son John, born c. 1827, occupier from 1855, who died in 1908 aged 81 and was Mary’s grandfather, the occupier at the 1877 split; (3) Mary’s father John, born about 1867 (“John Williams junior” in 1889), holder of the 1916 letting.Reasoning: The 1881 census age (53) and the 1908 death at 81 fit one man born c. 1827; the 1904 report has him succeeding his father in 1855; Mary’s statement has her grandfather dying in 1908; D/D XJF 64/30–31 (EV-0155) and EV-0279 for her father. Thos. Williams’s relationship to the Johns is unproven.
  • Hypothesisunlikely Two Thomas Williamses were followed by two John Williamses.Would confirm: a second Thomas in the parish registers or census between 1824 and 1855. Would break it: the record as it stands: one Thos. Williams (dead by 1824), then three Johns.
  • Hypothesisunlikely The Williams family owned the freehold before 1877.Would confirm: a pre-1877 conveyance to a Williams, or a rate or tithe entry naming a Williams as owner. Would break it: Mary’s own statement (“held the farm as tenant of the Bute Family Estates”), the 1876 rate naming Lord Bute owner, and the 1824 Bute survey.
1875–1878 · the limeworks and the split10542
  • Record1875–1876 Bute deeds at the National Library of Wales: “land (33 a.), formerly part of Great House Farm, for the Llandough Limeworks (33 a.), 1876-1912”, with plans engrossed on D153/3 (1875) and D153/4 (1876). The deeds, their parties and the parcel are unread (EV-0291).CH-0021 CH-0022
  • RecordOct 1876 Llandough poor rate: John Williams rated for a farm, owner Lord Bute, c. 76a; Lord Bute rated for woods in hand, 32a 3r 39p; Daniel Thomas & Son rated for a lime kiln and quarry (EV-0212).CH-0023
  • DeductionBy October 1876 the 1824 farm had become three pieces: the farm let to John Williams (c. 76a), woods kept by Bute (c. 33a) and the limeworks (33a). Together they come to about 142 acres, close to the 139¾ acres of 1824.Reasoning: 76 + 32.9 + 33 ≈ 142; the limeworks deed describes its 33 acres as “formerly part of Great House Farm”.
  • DeductionIn 1876 Lord Bute, not a Williams, was the owner of the farm John Williams occupied.Reasoning: The rate book names Lord Bute as owner against John Williams’s farm.
  • Record1877 Mary (Nancy) Williams’s statement, c. 1974 (GHF-E196-01): “Prior to 1877 my Grandfather held the farm as tenant of the Bute Family Estates and in that year he received notice to quit from the Bute Estate Office”. The freehold of the farmhouse, buildings and about 10 acres “was sold by the Bute Estate to Daniel Thomas”; Bute kept about 9 acres. Under the arrangement with Thomas the rent “should progressively decrease as land was taken for quarrying”, and “when the quarrying ceased the freehold should belong to my grandfather”. The deed and plan are missing.CH-0024 CH-0025 · The 1877 Agreement
  • Record6 Nov 1877 Mary’s account dates a lease to John Williams to 6 Nov 1877. No Llandough instrument has been found: DBDT/79/1 (2 May 1877) is a Pembroke Terrace, Cardiff lease to a John Williams of Newport (Glamorgan Archives 2026/3893).CH-0026
  • Record2026 Glamorgan Archives holds no deeds for an 1877 Daniel Thomas transaction and points to Bute X.6(12), the Bute trustees’ 1877 abstract of payments and receipts, at Cardiff Library (2026/4097b).qa: cq-1877
  • Record2026 Amgueddfa Cymru: the MS 3360/3 page once tied to a “Great House” relates to a holding in Llanfair parish, not to Great House Farm, Llandough (near Penarth); no records for the Great House Farm near Cowbridge were catalogued as this farm (FOI 2026-032, 2026-036).qa: Amgueddfa Cymru FOI 2026-036
  • DeductionThe 1876–78 papers belong to this Great House (Tŷ Mawr, Llandough-juxta-Penarth), not the farm near Cowbridge.Reasoning: The rate book, the limeworks deeds and the Daniel Thomas obituary all place the transaction at Llandough near Penarth; the one Cowbridge-type mix-up traced so far (MS 3360/3) was a different parish.
  • Record15 Jun – 11 Jul 1878 A memorandum of agreement “made the 15th day of June 1878 Between Thomas Williams of Ynysawdre Farm near Bridgend … Farmer … and the Ynysawdre Coal Company”, for “losses and damages done to his Crops by smoke soot and other combustion” after the company took possession of parts of that farm for works and tips. An umpire’s award of 11 Jul 1878 fixes about £339 “in full satisfaction”; it is signed for the Ynysawdre Coal Coke & Brick Co (EV-0234, Glamorgan Archives photographs 91–95).EV-0234 · Glamorgan Archives (reference to be read from the searchroom slip)
  • DeductionThe 1878 “brick, coke and coal” payment to a Thomas Williams belongs to Ynysawdre, near Bridgend: a crop-damage award to a yearly occupier, not a sale, not compulsory purchase and not a buy-back. It is not a Great House Farm document.Reasoning: The memorandum names Ynysawdre Farm near Bridgend and the Ynysawdre company at Tondu; the Cowbridge Great House (Llanfair parish) papers in the same visit were also set aside as a different farm.
  • Record1875 D153/3: “land (19 a.) for a brick and tile works at Cogan Pill, 1875”, the Bute deed whose plan also serves the limeworks deeds.EV-0291 · NLW D153/3
  • Record1876–1878 The Penarth Extension Railway Act 1876; the line, Penarth Dock to Penarth town, opens 20 Feb 1878. Nothing on the record ties it to Great House Farm.1878 test notes · statute
  • Hypothesisunlikely The 1876–78 split was a forced taking, like compulsory purchase, with the family paid out and given an option to buy back; the payments to 1928 were that buy-back.Would confirm: a statutory power over this land in 1876–78 (a deposited plan or book of reference naming the farm), or a pre-emption clause in the 1877 deed. Would break it: the 1876 rate (Lord Bute owner, John Williams occupier), Mary’s account of a Bute sale to a private contractor, her word “rent” for the payments, and the 1878 award being a Bridgend farm’s.
  • Hypothesispossible Mary’s “freehold should belong to my grandfather” term was a private reverter or option in the Thomas arrangement, taking effect when quarrying stopped (by November 1925; 1928 in Mary’s recollection).Would confirm: the 1877 deed, or Bute X.6(12) showing the terms. Would break it: a Thomas deed with no such clause.
  • MissingThe deposited plans and book of reference for the Penarth Extension Railway (1876).Where: Deposited plans. Held by: Glamorgan Archives; Parliamentary Archives.
  • Hypothesislikely The 1877 arrangement with Daniel Thomas in Mary’s statement is recorded in the Bute limeworks deeds D153/4–8 (1876–1912).Would confirm: reading D153/4 and its plan: Daniel Thomas as party and the house group inside or beside the parcel. Would break it: D153/4–8 naming another grantee, or a parcel away from the house.
  • DeductionMary’s “about 10 acres” sold to Daniel Thomas and the deeds’ 33 acres for the limeworks are different measures: the house parcel was either one part of the 33 acres or a separate plot beside it.Reasoning: The statement and the NLW catalogue give different acreages for what both describe as land taken from the farm for Thomas.
  • Hypothesispossible Daniel Thomas held the limeworks and house parcel by lease or licence for the quarrying term, not by outright purchase.Would confirm: Bute X.6(12): a rent or royalty from Daniel Thomas points to a lease; a capital sum points to a sale. Would break it: a conveyance to Daniel Thomas in fee.
  • Record1878–79 Ordnance Survey surveys Glamorgan sheet XLVII (published 1885), covering Llandough.CH-0027 CH-0028
  • MissingThe 1877 Bute–Thomas deed and plan.Where: NLW D153/4–8; Cardiff Library Bute X.6(12); Bute accounts 1875–80 at Mount Stuart. A library copy was reported missing in 1984.. Held by: National Library of Wales; Cardiff Central Library; Mount Stuart.
1879–1915 · the quarry years1132
  • Recordc. 1880 “Armour” is found under the floor of the rear wing of Great House, thought to be the medieval ironwork from Llandough now at the National Museum.Heneb HER 02038s · CH-0029
  • Record3 Apr 1881 The census records John Williams, 53, farmer, with his wife Mary and children at “Llandough Home Farm” (RG11/5288 p. 2).CH-0030
  • Record15 Dec 1887 Obituary of Daniel Thomas of Penylan (Tarian y Gweithiwr): a contractor under Lord Bute and owner of “valuable lime kilns at Llandough” (EV-0280).CH-0033
  • DeductionBy 1887 Daniel Thomas held the Llandough limeworks as his own asset.Reasoning: An obituary’s “owner” fits a freehold or a long lease; it does not settle which.
  • Record1915 The six-inch Ordnance Survey map revised 1915 shows “Llandough Lime Works”, with an engine house and siding, just north-west of “Ty-mawr” and the church. Neighbouring brickworks: Billups (by 1899), then the Llandough Brick Co (by 1923).EV-0280 · OS six-inch, Glamorgan XLVII
  • DeductionThe quarry ground Daniel Thomas worked lies beside the farmhouse and the woods, so the 1876 split cut into the core of the farm.Reasoning: The 1915 map position, read with the 33 acres “formerly part of Great House Farm”.
  • Record1891–1892 Geese taken from “Mr. John Williams, Great House Farm, Llandough” (court report; South Wales Star, 10 Jun 1892).CH-0038 CH-0042
  • Record29 Nov 1902 Bute’s coppice woods, including “Cwm Cydfin Wood, Leckwith and Llandough”, offered at auction (Stephenson & Alexander).CH-0056
  • Record23 Feb 1905 Conveyance, John Marquis of Bute to Cardiff City Corporation, recorded on the woodland register WA735527 (Charges Register entry 1).CH-0060 CH-0061
  • DeductionCardiff City Corporation’s link to land now in the woodland title starts with a Bute conveyance in 1905, 56 years before the 1961 deed.Reasoning: The register recites the 1905 conveyance before the 1961 deed; what the 1905 deed covered is not known.
  • MissingThe 1905 Bute–Cardiff City Corporation conveyance and its plan.Where: HM Land Registry deeds-before-registration file (WA735527, WA231076); Cardiff Council deeds. Held by: HM Land Registry; Cardiff Council.
  • Record17 Jul 1908 “the death of Mr. John Williams, of Great House Farm, Llandough, which occurred on Friday, July 17th, and the burial on the 21st, aged 81” (Baptist Record, Oct 1908). The Bute court leet records sympathy with his family, “for many years a juror of the court” (23 Oct 1908).CH-0066 CH-0067
  • Record1908 Mary’s statement: her grandfather died in 1908 and John Williams (her father) took over both occupancies.CH-0064
  • Record1910 Valuation Office survey map, OS Glamorgan XLVII.6 (TNA IR 131/4/96). John Williams sits on the Bute court leet grand jury, which had “no presentments to make of the deaths of freeholders” (Barry Dock News, 14 Oct 1910).CH-0070 CH-0071
  • MissingThe 1910 Valuation Office field book entry for the farm (owner, occupier, tenure, value).Where: IR 58 field books. Held by: The National Archives.
  • Record10 Aug 1913 Mary (Nancy) Williams is born at Great House Farm.CH-0072
1916–1937 · the 1916 letting and the end of quarrying6322
  • RecordFeb 1916 “in February 1916 the Marquis granted a yearly agricultural tenancy of the whole of the farm to a Mr John Williams, who was Mr Buckler junior’s maternal grandfather.”CA 1987 para 4 · CH-0073 CH-0074
  • DeductionThe 1916 letting and the 1877 account cannot both be right in full: if Daniel Thomas owned the house parcel from 1877, Bute could not let “the whole of the farm” in 1916.Reasoning: Either the 1877 transfer was a lease or licence, or the court’s summary of the 1916 letting is wider than the document. The document itself is not held.
  • MissingThe 1916 letting agreement.Where: Bute rentals 1916 (R series); Western Ground Rents rentals c. 1938–44 (D696/1–3). Held by: National Library of Wales; Glamorgan Archives.
  • Record1923 An Esther Williams signs the Llandough sheet of the Welsh Women’s Peace Petition with the address “Llandough” (line 1.08 of 36 signatures). The other addresses on the sheet (Llwyn-yr-Eryr, Lewis Road, Cogan, Llandough Brickworks, the Toll House, “Llandough Near Cardiff”) place it in Llandough-juxta-Penarth. 1923 is the NLW catalogue date; the sheet carries no date (EV-0294).National Library of Wales, Petition 1/92 (wayback WB-0039) · EV-0294
  • DeductionThe Esther Williams of the 1923 sheet is most likely Mrs Esther Williams, wife of John Williams and mother of Mary (Nancy) Williams, whom the Court of Appeal records living at the farm in 1955. The petition is a peace petition, not a land document, and names no farm; the link to Great House Farm is our inference.Reasoning: CA 1987 para 7: “Mr Williams and his wife Mrs Esther Williams had also been living there in 1955”; the sheet gives “Llandough” with no house name. The 1921 census and the 1923–24 register of electors for Llandough would settle it.
  • Record15 May 1924 A drain agreement, recorded on the woodland register WA735527 and among the deeds on the WA231076 file; its contents are unknown.CH-0077 CH-0078
  • Record10 Nov 1925 Quarrying at Llandough has ended by November 1925: a “Catalogue of loose plant, tramlines etc for sale at Llandough Quarry” is issued, with the plant and kiln yard at “Llandough Lime Works”.Glamorgan Archives DSA/12/4888 (Stephenson & Alexander client file, 1925–27; catalogue entry)
  • Record14 Dec 1927 Alfred Thomas, Lord Pontypridd, son of Daniel Thomas of the Llandough lime works, dies unmarried; a report of 27 Dec 1927 states “the bulk of his property” was left “unconditionally to the corporation” of Cardiff (EV-0284).CH-0081
  • Record1928 Mary’s recollection (her statement, c. 1974): the last quarry machinery leaves and a final rent of about £4 is paid to Alfred Thomas; she saw the receipt, which is missing.CH-0082
  • DeductionThe 1928 payment went to Alfred Thomas’s estate, and Mary’s own word for it is “rent”.Reasoning: Alfred Thomas died on 14 Dec 1927; “final rent” describes a letting, not instalments on a purchase.
  • Hypothesisunlikely The Thomas interest at Llandough passed with Lord Pontypridd’s 1927 bequest to Cardiff Corporation, which would explain the Corporation as a party to the 1961 deed.Weighed against it: his will (proved 8 Mar 1928; London Gazette 30 Mar 1928 p.2387) shows an estate almost entirely personalty, so little or no freehold land passed; the 23 Feb 1905 Bute–Cardiff City Corporation conveyance is the better explanation. Would confirm: Cardiff Corporation’s deeds register showing Llandough land from the Thomas estate. Would break it: a sale of the limeworks by the Thomas estate to another buyer before 1961.
  • Hypothesispossible Once quarrying ended (by November 1925; 1928 in Mary’s recollection), the house parcel reverted to the Williams family as Mary’s statement describes.Would confirm: the 1877 deed’s reverter clause or the 1928 receipt. Would break it: the 1939 Western Ground Rents letting covering the house parcel; the 1949 letting of the whole farm, with rent paid until 1953 (CA 1987 paras 5, 6).
  • MissingThe 1928 receipt and the 1924 agreement.Where: Family papers (receipt); HM Land Registry first-registration file (subject access request due 28 Oct 2026). Held by: the family; HM Land Registry.
1938–1954 · Western Ground Rents and the 1949 letting8112
  • Record1938 The Bute (Mountjoy) sale of Cardiff ground rents to Western Ground Rents Ltd: announced 17 May, completed 23 Dec, press 24 Dec; the Llandough conveyance is dated 25 Dec 1938 and is the root of title in a 1965 contract (condition F). “In 1938 the reversion on that tenancy was conveyed to a company called Western Ground Rents Ltd.”CA 1987 para 4 · CH-0088 CH-0089 CH-0090
  • MissingThe 25 Dec 1938 conveyance, and any earlier Mountjoy Ltd dealing at Llandough (no 1926 Mountjoy record is held; The National Archives found nothing on Mountjoy Ltd).Where: Western Ground Rents volumes D696/1–3 (free in the searchroom); Bute and Mountjoy holdings; Companies House 00342092. Held by: Glamorgan Archives; Companies House.
  • RecordMay 1939 A revised letting from Western Ground Rents to John Williams; its plan shows the fields east of the house (Parcel B).CH-0094 · 1938–39 page
  • Hypothesisunlikely No rent was paid on the house parcel after 1928, so 12 years’ rent-free possession was complete by about 1940.Would confirm: the 1939 plan showing the house parcel left out of the letting, and no payment for the house after 1928. Would break it: the 1949 letting of the whole farm to Frederick and his rent payments until 1953 (CA 1987 paras 3, 5, 6); rent receipts from John Williams covering the house.
  • Record1940–42 Western Ground Rents gives about 109 acres of Leckwith Woods to Cardiff council (offered 1940, completed Apr 1942; secondary source). A 1955 press report places Leckwith Woods outside Llandough (EV-0259).CH-0097 CH-0110
  • Record1944 Mary’s statement: the War Agricultural Executive Committee was dissatisfied and Frederick ran the farm as manager for John Williams.CH-0099
  • Record25 Aug 1948 William (Billy) Buckler is born at the farm.CA 1987 para 7 · CH-0101
  • Record2 Feb 1949 “agreement was reached for Mr Williams’ tenancy to be surrendered and for a new yearly agricultural tenancy commencing at February 2 1949 to be granted to Mr Williams’ son-in-law, Mr Frederick Buckler”. A written agreement was intended but never made.CA 1987 para 5 · CH-0104
  • MissingAny 1949 offer to Mary concerning Parcel A, and her reply. None has been found. The judgment records two later offers to Mary: the undated farmhouse-and-garden offer after 1955 (para 7) and a tenancy offered to Mrs Buckler by Western Ground Rents’ agents in March 1965 (para 22).Where: The landlords’ agents’ 1949–52 file (before the court in 1986); Western Ground Rents volumes D696. Held by: the BP side’s solicitors; Glamorgan Archives.
  • Record10 Oct 1952 A letter from the landlords’ agents to their solicitors “stating that they did not propose to proceed with the letting to Mr Frederick Buckler”.CA 1987 para 5 · CH-0106
  • Record1953 Frederick’s last payment, “in fact a payment under a judgment for arrears of rent”.CA 1987 paras 3, 6 · CH-0107
  • DeductionUntil 1953 the family’s occupation was acknowledged occupation under Western Ground Rents, paid (if late) as rent.Reasoning: The court records rent arrears in the 1930s and 1940s, a judgment for arrears, and payments to 1953.
1955–1962 · the possession orders and the 1961 deed8523
  • Record2 Feb – 4 Jul 1955 The notice to quit expires on 2 Feb 1955; Western Ground Rents obtains a High Court possession order under Order 14 “in respect of the whole of the farm”. On 4 Jul 1955 “possession was taken in respect of all parts of the farm except the farmhouse and garden”, because Mary “had recently come out of hospital after having had a leg amputated”.CA 1987 para 6 · CH-0108 CH-0109 CH-0111
  • MissingThe 1955 possession order itself (EV-0032).Where: High Court (Queen’s Bench) records. Held by: HM Courts & Tribunals Service; The National Archives.
  • Record7 May 1958 At the Leckwith Common compulsory purchase inquiry Mary tells the inquiry that Lord Bute had allowed her family “a slice of land” now part of Leckwith Common (Western Mail, EV-0035).1878 test notes · EV-0035
  • Record8 Sep 1958 The City of Cardiff (Leckwith Common) Compulsory Purchase Order 1957 is confirmed (London Gazette, 31 Oct 1958, p. 6652; EV-0287).CH-0118
  • Record20 Nov 1958 Western Mail, p. 7: “‘This is a Welsh case of Crichel Down,’ said Mrs. Buckler. ‘The Glamorgan County Council, Penarth Urban and Cardiff Rural Councils and Western Ground Rents have walked in and taken …’” The same report has the water “cut off from her house and grounds for nearly 10 years by order of Western Ground Rents” (EV-0037, snippet).CH-0119 CH-0120
  • Deduction“Crichel Down” is Mary’s 1958 comparison for the 1950s takings and the Leckwith Common order, not a description of 1877.Reasoning: Crichel Down (1954) was land taken by the state and not offered back; her words name the councils and Western Ground Rents, in the year the 1957 order was confirmed.
  • MissingThe full Western Mail page of 20 Nov 1958 (only a snippet is held).Where: Western Mail, 20 Nov 1958, p. 7. Held by: British Library newspaper collections; Cardiff Central Library.
  • RecordBy 1959 Mary “had conceived the notion that she had a title to the ownership of Great House Farm through her own grandfather and that there were documents in existence which proved her title. No such documents were, however, ever produced.”CA 1987 para 7 · CH-0123 CH-0124
  • RecordAfter 1955 (undated) “She was offered a tenancy of the farmhouse and garden by Western Ground Rents but refused to accept it. She was also later offered, and refused, alternative accommodation.”CA 1987 para 7
  • DeductionThe title Mary asserted ran through the grandfather who died in 1908 (John Williams, born c. 1827), the generation alive at the 1876–77 split.Reasoning: The judgment’s “through her own grandfather”, read with the 1908 death record.
  • Record29 Mar 1961 A deed with plan between Western Ground Rents, South Western Brick & Tile Co Ltd and Cardiff City Corporation, recited on the woodland register WA735527 (Charges Register entry 3). The deed and plan have not been inspected (EV-0040), so its terms and precise extent are unknown.CH-0127 CH-0128
  • DeductionThe 1961 deed does not show that Cardiff City Corporation received the freehold, and it is not a link in the woodland’s chain to Forest of Cardiff.Reasoning: Its terms are uninspected; Forest of Cardiff’s 1994 title comes by transfer from Ideal Homes (WA735527).
  • Hypothesisunlikely South Western Brick & Tile Co Ltd was a Bute or state company, the same interest that paid out in 1878.Would confirm: the company’s file linking it to Bute or a public body. Would break it: the 1878 award being a Bridgend company’s; Bute had sold its ground rents to a private company in 1938; no record links the 1961 company to Bute (a company of that name was struck off in 1972–74, not confirmed as the same).
  • DeductionSouth Western Brick & Tile Co Ltd was a Penarth brickmaker active 1951–64, not a Bute or state company.Reasoning: press notices show brickyard jobs advertised in 1951, the company in haulage licensing lists in 1962 and a Penarth court case in 1964; none links it to Bute or a public body.
  • Hypothesispossible Second “synthetic” Parcel A (1961–62): the woodland third of Parcel A was dealt with separately by the 1961 deed, while the 1962 order narrowed the family’s occupation to the house group.Would confirm: the 1961 deed plan laid over the 1877 split and the tithe map. Would break it: the 1961 deed plan lying outside Parcel A, or granting rights only (drainage, access).
  • MissingThe 29 Mar 1961 deed and plan.Where: A copy is filed under WA231076; Cardiff Council deeds. Held by: HM Land Registry; Cardiff Council.
  • Record11 Dec 1962 Cardiff County Court possession order for the farmhouse and garden, with mesne profits since 1955; not enforced before 1974.CA 1987 para 9 · CH-0131 CH-0132
  • DeductionThe 1962 order is why 1974 mattered: it gave the landlord 12 years from 11 Dec 1962 to enforce, so time would run out in December 1974.Reasoning: The Court of Appeal held that a judgment for possession can be enforced for 12 years from its date. (CA 1987 paras 25, 26, 27, 28)
1963–1974 · Frederick’s death, BP, VG41, the letters14132
  • RecordJun 1963 “a suspended committal order against Mr Frederick Buckler in June 1963” over the mesne profits.CA 1987 para 9 · CH-0137
  • RecordMar 1965 “at one stage in March 1965 when Western Ground Rents’ agents offered Mrs Buckler a tenancy Mr Frederick Buckler was complaining that Western Ground Rents had refused to let him the land”. The wiki’s Master Timeline (CH-0140) adds that a weekly letting of the farmhouse was offered to “Mrs Williams” on 2 Mar and not signed.CA 1987 para 22 · CH-0140
  • Record11 Jun 1965 Conveyance, Lakeside & Llandough Development Co and Western Ground Rents to Glamorgan County Council (school site; Vale FOI 00211027, EV-0042).CH-0141
  • Record1967 Frederick dies aged 58 (GRO death index, East Glamorgan 8b 364). The judgment: he “died at some time in the period 1965-67”; BP admitted that Mary “was in adverse possession from her husband’s death in 1965-67 until October 31 1974”.CA 1987 paras 9, 19 · CH-0142
  • Hypothesisunlikely The eldest son sold “our land parcel” in 1964–67.Would confirm: any deed or register entry naming him as a party. Would break it: the register chain, which runs Western Ground Rents → BP with no family transfer.
  • Record15 Feb 1969 British Petroleum makes an agreed bid for the whole of Western Ground Rents Ltd, wanting its property “for their pension fund” (EV-0288).CH-0146 CH-0147
  • RecordDec 1969 “in December 1969 Great House Farm, including the farmhouse and garden, was sold by Western Ground Rents to BP Pension Trust Ltd.” The 31 Dec 1969 conveyance is the recited root of title on WA231076 and WA240304.CA 1987 para 9 · CH-0148 CH-0150
  • MissingThe 31 Dec 1969 conveyance to BP Pension Trust (missing from the Land Registry files).Where: BP’s deeds; Linklaters’ 1982 lodgement. Held by: BP; HM Land Registry.
  • Record16 Jun 1970 Village green VG41 provisionally registered under the Commons Registration Act 1965 (registration authority stamp “16 JUN 1970”). Its boundary against Parcel A is still to be confirmed. The second objection period ends 31 Jul 1972 (public notice only, EV-0263).CH-0152 CH-0157
  • Hypothesispossible Third “synthetic” Parcel A (1970): the VG41 registration took a strip of Parcel A by Leckwith Road out of the farm while Mary was in possession, with no notice to her.Would confirm: the VG41 register map overlaid on the 1877/1939 plans; the registration authority’s file and any notice served. Would break it: VG41 lying wholly outside Parcel A, or an objection or notice on the file naming her.
  • Record1971 An abstract of title “lodged with the application for first registration” (WA231076); HM Land Registry “had sight of a copy of a 1971 abstract of title” (WA240304).CH-0154
  • MissingThe 1971 abstract of title.Where: HM Land Registry first-registration files (30 items WA231076, 13 items WA240304). Held by: HM Land Registry.
  • Record15 Apr 1974 Mary opens the farmhouse to the public “to show what the nation is losing”; a petition of about 1,000.CH-0159
  • Record3 Jul 1974 BP Pension Trust’s action against Mrs Buckler is “adjourned part heard on July 3 1974 for a formal defence”; the defence then pleads the Limitation Act 1939.CA 1987 para 11 · CH-0163
  • Record17–19 Sep 1974 BP Pension Trust applies for leave to enforce the 1962 order; on 19 Sep the judge gives leave, the warrant “be not enforced until October 31 1974”. Notice of appeal follows on 30 Oct.CA 1987 paras 11, 12 · CH-0164
  • Record31 Oct – 4 Nov 1974 Two letters “dated October 31 1974”, from BP Pension Trust and BP Properties, sent to Mary’s solicitor, “who seems to have received them on the morning of November 4”. BP Properties offers her the house and garden “rent free for as long as you may wish and for the rest of your life”.CA 1987 paras 13, 14, 15 · CH-0165 CH-0166
  • Record4 – before 25 Nov 1974 On 4 Nov the judge stays execution. Before Mary gave instructions, “the landlords’ solicitors themselves wrote to the county court, at some date prior to November 25 1974 and withdrew the warrant for possession.” The exact day is not recorded.CA 1987 para 16 · CH-0167
  • DeductionThe letters came six weeks before the 1962 order’s 12 years ran out (11 Dec 1974). On advice, Mary did nothing “while the 12-year period from the date of the possession order of December 11 1962 expired”, and the court held the unilateral letters made her a licensee, ending her adverse possession.Reasoning: Read with the timetable in the 1962 entry. (CA 1987 paras 34, 37)
  • Hypothesispossible First “synthetic” Parcel A (1974–83): BP made the occupation look permissive with the 1974 letters, then took the farm to the Land Registry as owner without telling the registry the occupier asserted ownership, and without notice to her.Would confirm: the 1982–83 application papers: what Form 1 and any statutory declaration said about persons in occupation (LRA 1925 s70(1)(g)). Would break it: application papers disclosing Mary’s occupation and her assertion of ownership, or a notice served on her.
  • Record19 Nov 1974 or 1977 Western Mail letter “Grievous loss”, from a Penarth reader, against demolition. The last digit of the year cannot be read on the copy held (EV-0051).CH-0168 CH-0151
1975–1983 · conveyance and first registration841
  • Record23 May 1975 Conveyance, The British Petroleum Pension Trust Limited and BP Trustees Limited to B.P. Properties Limited, recorded on WA735527. “the actual conveyance of the farmhouse and garden by BP Pension Trust Ltd to BP Properties Ltd did not take place until May 1975.”CA 1987 para 20 · CH-0169 CH-0170
  • Record1 Dec 1975 Compulsory registration of title begins in the Vale of Glamorgan (SI 1975/160; EV-0265).CH-0171
  • DeductionThe May 1975 conveyance came six months before compulsory registration, so it did not have to be registered; a conveyance on sale after 1 Dec 1975 would.Reasoning: Dates of the conveyance and the order.
  • Record22 May 1980 In the Commons, the local MP criticises Western Ground Rents and the BP pension fund (Hansard, vol. 985; EV-0057).CH-0178 CH-0179
  • RecordOct 1982 The Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust recommends investigation before development.CH-0183
  • Record19 Nov 1982 A second conveyance, BP Pension Trust Ltd and BP Trustees Ltd to B.P. Properties Ltd, recorded on WA735527.CH-0184
  • Record30 Nov 1982 Application for first registration, WA231076, by BP Properties Ltd, lodged by Linklaters & Paines. BP Properties “since November 1982 … have been the registered proprietors of it”.CA 1987 paras 2, 17 · CH-0185 CH-0186
  • DeductionTwo conveyances between the same BP companies appear on the register (1975 and 1982); the second, eleven days before the application, looks like the instrument that triggered compulsory first registration, or one covering land the 1975 deed did not.Reasoning: Compulsory registration applied from 1 Dec 1975; the 1982 conveyance and the application are 11 days apart. Which reading is right needs the two deeds.
  • DeductionFrom the letters (31 Oct 1974) to the application (30 Nov 1982) is 8 years and one month; the gap is not 12 years.Reasoning: Dates as recorded.
  • Record23 Feb 1983 First registration of the farmhouse and garden as its own title, WA240304 (HM Land Registry schedule of 30 Jul 2026, items 10–13).CH-0187 CH-0188
  • DeductionThe registry dealt with the farmhouse and garden as a separate unit, three months after the rest, while Mary was living in it.Reasoning: WA240304 is a separate application covering only the house group.
  • MissingThe WA231076 and WA240304 application papers, including what was declared about persons in occupation.Where: First-registration files (copies on form OC2; subject access request N610CGV / D260928, due 28 Oct 2026). Held by: HM Land Registry.
  • Record26 Mar 1983 Mary dies at the farmhouse; William’s case runs through her estate. No grant of representation to her estate had been obtained by 1987.CA 1987 paras 16, 17 · CH-0191
1984–1989 · the action, the appeal, the eviction1521
  • Record1984 A library copy of the Bute–Thomas deed is reported missing.CH-0195
  • Record22 May 1984 BP’s writ for possession.CH-0196 CH-0197
  • Record10–24 Jul 1986 High Court hearing at Cardiff; Hollis J gives judgment for BP on 24 Jul 1986, possession suspended six months.CA 1987 para 1 · CH-0199 CH-0200
  • Record2 Feb 1987 Application to amalgamate the two titles, WA231076 and WA240304, during the appeal.CH-0204 CH-0205
  • Record31 Jul 1987 The Court of Appeal dismisses the appeal: Frederick and Mary were in adverse possession from 1955, but the 1962 order kept the landlord’s title alive to 1974, and from the 1974 letters Mary held “by the licence of BP Properties Ltd”.CA 1987 paras 23, 28, 37, 38 · CH-0208 CH-0209 CH-0214
  • DeductionThe court never decided the 1877 title question.Reasoning: It records that Mary’s title documents were “never produced” and decides the case on limitation and the 1974 licence.
  • Record3 Mar 1988 The House of Lords refuses leave to appeal.CH-0226 CH-0227
  • Record29 Apr 1988 An eviction attempt.CH-0228 · ledger
  • Record3 May 1988 William applies to the European Commission of Human Rights (14464/88).CH-0234
  • Record9 Jul 1988 Estates Gazette, “BP signal Welsh sales”: BP disposing of its Welsh property interests.CH-0237
  • Record29 Jul 1988 Cadw listing inspection of the farmhouse; two exterior photographs.CH-0240
  • Record29–30 Nov 1988 Possession obtained; bailiffs force entry; William is taken to Llandough Hospital. The exact day is unresolved between 29 and 30 November.CH-0244
  • Record5–6 Dec 1988 Cadw: the farmhouse is not listed (5 Dec). The house is demolished on 6 Dec.CH-0255 CH-0228
  • DeductionThe decision not to list came the day before the demolition.Reasoning: 5 Dec and 6 Dec 1988.
  • MissingCadw’s July–December 1988 listing file (only two photographs survive).Where: Cadw / Welsh Government (FOI refused 19 Oct 2026 as similar to ATISN 27021); Welsh Office files. Held by: Cadw; The National Archives.
  • Record14 Apr 1989 The European Commission declares the application inadmissible.CH-0286 CH-0288
  • Record10 Oct 1989 Transfer, B P Properties Limited to private buyers (WA513690).CH-0289 CH-0290
  • RecordOct – 8 Nov 1989 Outline application 89/01396/OUT (form dated October, received 8 Nov 1989); outline permission granted 13 Mar 1990 with 18 conditions.CH-0291 CH-0300
1990–1994 · after the house611
  • Record1990 William (Billy) Buckler dies; the date is unresolved (a probate entry of 29 Apr 1990 is probably his; a press report implies late May).CH-0303 · ledger
  • MissingWilliam’s death register entry.Where: GRO death index and certificate. Held by: General Register Office.
  • Record1990–1992 Old Barry Road stopping-up order (proposed 30 Oct 1990, made 18 Mar 1992); reserved-matters drawings 92/00671/RES approved 3 Sep 1992.CH-0309 CH-0315
  • Record3 Dec 1993 Transfer, BP Properties Ltd to Ideal Homes, registered on WA231076.CH-0319 CH-0320
  • Record1994 Ideal Homes Wales’ village green planting plan (12 Jan); human remains from “Great House Farm, Llandough” donated to the National Museum with Ideal Homes Wales as donor (28 Jul).CH-0327 CH-0337
  • Record10–25 Nov 1994 Transfer, Ideal Homes Wales Limited to Forest of Cardiff, recorded on WA735527; proprietorship entry 25 Nov 1994.CH-0343 CH-0344 CH-0345
  • DeductionThe woodland now in WA735527 passed BP → Ideal Homes (1993) → Forest of Cardiff (1994), so it was within the land BP held and sold, not land that came to Forest of Cardiff from Cardiff Corporation.Reasoning: Forest of Cardiff’s title starts with the Ideal Homes transfer; nothing on the register runs from the 1961 deed to Forest of Cardiff.
  • Record1994–1996 Ideal Homes (Wales) build Churchview Close; the first recorded sale is in Jul 1995; Persimmon buys Ideal Homes in 1996.CH-0324 CH-0350
1995–2024 · later dealings21
  • Record16 May 1997 Final meetings for the winding-up of Western Ground Rents Ltd and other BP pension companies (London Gazette).CH-0358
  • Record2005 Forest of Cardiff transfers land to Goldsworthy Homes (2 Dec) and part of the woodland title is divided off (22 Dec).CH-0362 CH-0367
  • MissingWestern Ground Rents’ company file and records after the 1997 winding-up.Where: Companies House 00342092; TNA BT 31 (reference not confirmed). Held by: Companies House; The National Archives.
2025–2026 · the records requests81
  • Record2025–26 Records requests go to public bodies: the Cabinet Office, HM Land Registry, The National Archives, Cadw, the Vale of Glamorgan Council, Glamorgan Archives, the National Library of Wales, South Wales Police and others.CH-0390 · correspondence
  • Record23 Mar 2026 HM Land Registry: WA231076 received 30 Nov 1982 (Linklaters & Paines for BP Properties), WA240304 received 23 Feb 1983, titles amalgamated; “No evidence of a mistake in the register”.CH-0420 CH-0421
  • Record19 Apr – 25 May 2026 HM Land Registry complaint refused at stage one and in its “second and final response”.CH-0425 CH-0433
  • Record30 Jul 2026 HM Land Registry lists the first-registration files: 30 items for WA231076 (including the 2 Feb 1987 amalgamation application and the 3 Dec 1993 transfer to Ideal Homes) and 13 for WA240304; copies by form OC2.CH-0460 CH-0461
  • Record11 Jun 2026 Cadw: the 1988 listing file was assessed and “did not meet the listing criteria”; only two photographs survive (ATISN 27021).CH-0440
  • Record14 Sep 2026 The Vale of Glamorgan Council releases the 11 Jun 1965 conveyance and the 1965 contract (condition F: root of title 25 Dec 1938).CH-0486 CH-0487
  • Record28 Sep 2026 Subject access requests to HM Land Registry (D260928 / N610CGV) and the Vale of Glamorgan Council; HM Land Registry’s Independent Complaints Reviewer allocates ICR/090/26.CH-0507 CH-0508 CH-0511
  • Record10–15 Oct 2026 HM Land Registry opens internal application Z084NQV “to investigate and correct any error that may have been made” on WA231076; an application to alter the register (WA240304, WA231076) follows on 15 Oct.CH-0528 CH-0546
  • MissingThe answers still due: HM Land Registry subject access (28 Oct 2026), the first-registration copies (form OC2), the Independent Complaints Reviewer’s review, Cardiff Library’s Bute X.6(12), and the Glamorgan Archives D696 search.Where: As listed. Held by: HM Land Registry; Cardiff Central Library; Glamorgan Archives.
All hypotheses, by likelihood16
  • Hypothesislikely The 1877 arrangement with Daniel Thomas in Mary’s statement is recorded in the Bute limeworks deeds D153/4–8 (1876–1912).Would confirm: reading D153/4 and its plan: Daniel Thomas as party and the house group inside or beside the parcel. Would break it: D153/4–8 naming another grantee, or a parcel away from the house.
  • Hypothesispossible The ownership chain shown on the parcel graphic, Herbert → Vaughan → Bute, describes how Tŷ Mawr reached the Bute estate.Would confirm: the conveyance into Bute, or an abstract reciting it. Would break it: a deed showing Bute held Tŷ Mawr through a different line.
  • Hypothesispossible The “late Thos. Williams” land had been a small Williams holding (perhaps freehold) taken into the Bute farm after his death. That would fit a family memory of once owning land there.Would confirm: a Bute purchase deed or rental entry for that land, c. 1800–1824. Would break it: a rental showing Thos. Williams paying Bute rent for it.
  • Hypothesispossible Mary’s “freehold should belong to my grandfather” term was a private reverter or option in the Thomas arrangement, taking effect when quarrying stopped (by November 1925; 1928 in Mary’s recollection).Would confirm: the 1877 deed, or Bute X.6(12) showing the terms. Would break it: a Thomas deed with no such clause.
  • Hypothesispossible Daniel Thomas held the limeworks and house parcel by lease or licence for the quarrying term, not by outright purchase.Would confirm: Bute X.6(12): a rent or royalty from Daniel Thomas points to a lease; a capital sum points to a sale. Would break it: a conveyance to Daniel Thomas in fee.
  • Hypothesispossible Once quarrying ended (by November 1925; 1928 in Mary’s recollection), the house parcel reverted to the Williams family as Mary’s statement describes.Would confirm: the 1877 deed’s reverter clause or the 1928 receipt. Would break it: the 1939 Western Ground Rents letting covering the house parcel; the 1949 letting of the whole farm, with rent paid until 1953 (CA 1987 paras 5, 6).
  • Hypothesispossible Second “synthetic” Parcel A (1961–62): the woodland third of Parcel A was dealt with separately by the 1961 deed, while the 1962 order narrowed the family’s occupation to the house group.Would confirm: the 1961 deed plan laid over the 1877 split and the tithe map. Would break it: the 1961 deed plan lying outside Parcel A, or granting rights only (drainage, access).
  • Hypothesispossible Third “synthetic” Parcel A (1970): the VG41 registration took a strip of Parcel A by Leckwith Road out of the farm while Mary was in possession, with no notice to her.Would confirm: the VG41 register map overlaid on the 1877/1939 plans; the registration authority’s file and any notice served. Would break it: VG41 lying wholly outside Parcel A, or an objection or notice on the file naming her.
  • Hypothesispossible First “synthetic” Parcel A (1974–83): BP made the occupation look permissive with the 1974 letters, then took the farm to the Land Registry as owner without telling the registry the occupier asserted ownership, and without notice to her.Would confirm: the 1982–83 application papers: what Form 1 and any statutory declaration said about persons in occupation (LRA 1925 s70(1)(g)). Would break it: application papers disclosing Mary’s occupation and her assertion of ownership, or a notice served on her.
  • Hypothesisunlikely The Thomas interest at Llandough passed with Lord Pontypridd’s 1927 bequest to Cardiff Corporation, which would explain the Corporation as a party to the 1961 deed.Weighed against it: his will (proved 8 Mar 1928; London Gazette 30 Mar 1928 p.2387) shows an estate almost entirely personalty, so little or no freehold land passed; the 23 Feb 1905 Bute–Cardiff City Corporation conveyance is the better explanation. Would confirm: Cardiff Corporation’s deeds register showing Llandough land from the Thomas estate. Would break it: a sale of the limeworks by the Thomas estate to another buyer before 1961.
  • Hypothesisunlikely Two Thomas Williamses were followed by two John Williamses.Would confirm: a second Thomas in the parish registers or census between 1824 and 1855. Would break it: the record as it stands: one Thos. Williams (dead by 1824), then three Johns.
  • Hypothesisunlikely The Williams family owned the freehold before 1877.Would confirm: a pre-1877 conveyance to a Williams, or a rate or tithe entry naming a Williams as owner. Would break it: Mary’s own statement (“held the farm as tenant of the Bute Family Estates”), the 1876 rate naming Lord Bute owner, and the 1824 Bute survey.
  • Hypothesisunlikely The 1876–78 split was a forced taking, like compulsory purchase, with the family paid out and given an option to buy back; the payments to 1928 were that buy-back.Would confirm: a statutory power over this land in 1876–78 (a deposited plan or book of reference naming the farm), or a pre-emption clause in the 1877 deed. Would break it: the 1876 rate (Lord Bute owner, John Williams occupier), Mary’s account of a Bute sale to a private contractor, her word “rent” for the payments, and the 1878 award being a Bridgend farm’s.
  • Hypothesisunlikely No rent was paid on the house parcel after 1928, so 12 years’ rent-free possession was complete by about 1940.Would confirm: the 1939 plan showing the house parcel left out of the letting, and no payment for the house after 1928. Would break it: the 1949 letting of the whole farm to Frederick and his rent payments until 1953 (CA 1987 paras 3, 5, 6); rent receipts from John Williams covering the house.
  • Hypothesisunlikely South Western Brick & Tile Co Ltd was a Bute or state company, the same interest that paid out in 1878.Would confirm: the company’s file linking it to Bute or a public body. Would break it: the 1878 award being a Bridgend company’s; Bute had sold its ground rents to a private company in 1938; no record links the 1961 company to Bute (a company of that name was struck off in 1972–74, not confirmed as the same).
  • Hypothesisunlikely The eldest son sold “our land parcel” in 1964–67.Would confirm: any deed or register entry naming him as a party. Would break it: the register chain, which runs Western Ground Rents → BP with no family transfer.
All missing records, and who holds them22
  • MissingAny written record before 1824 naming a Williams at Tŷ Mawr (baptisms, burials, estate rentals).Where: Llandough parish registers (P35) and Herbert/Hurst estate papers. Held by: Glamorgan Archives.
  • MissingThe conveyance by which the Bute estate acquired Tŷ Mawr.Where: Bute estate deeds (D153 and other D series; Bute X series). Held by: National Library of Wales; Cardiff Central Library.
  • MissingThe Bute rentals for Llandough from 1824 (who paid for Tŷ Mawr, and from when).Where: Bute estate rentals. Held by: National Library of Wales; Glamorgan Archives (DB series).
  • MissingThe tithe apportionment lines for Tŷ Mawr (owner, occupier, acreage) and the 1841 and 1851 census entries for the farm.Where: Tithe apportionment P35/10; census HO 107. Held by: Glamorgan Archives; The National Archives.
  • MissingThe deposited plans and book of reference for the Penarth Extension Railway (1876).Where: Deposited plans. Held by: Glamorgan Archives; Parliamentary Archives.
  • MissingThe 1877 Bute–Thomas deed and plan.Where: NLW D153/4–8; Cardiff Library Bute X.6(12); Bute accounts 1875–80 at Mount Stuart. A library copy was reported missing in 1984.. Held by: National Library of Wales; Cardiff Central Library; Mount Stuart.
  • MissingThe 1905 Bute–Cardiff City Corporation conveyance and its plan.Where: HM Land Registry deeds-before-registration file (WA735527, WA231076); Cardiff Council deeds. Held by: HM Land Registry; Cardiff Council.
  • MissingThe 1910 Valuation Office field book entry for the farm (owner, occupier, tenure, value).Where: IR 58 field books. Held by: The National Archives.
  • MissingThe 1916 letting agreement.Where: Bute rentals 1916 (R series); Western Ground Rents rentals c. 1938–44 (D696/1–3). Held by: National Library of Wales; Glamorgan Archives.
  • MissingThe 1928 receipt and the 1924 agreement.Where: Family papers (receipt); HM Land Registry first-registration file (subject access request due 28 Oct 2026). Held by: the family; HM Land Registry.
  • MissingThe 25 Dec 1938 conveyance, and any earlier Mountjoy Ltd dealing at Llandough (no 1926 Mountjoy record is held; The National Archives found nothing on Mountjoy Ltd).Where: Western Ground Rents volumes D696/1–3 (free in the searchroom); Bute and Mountjoy holdings; Companies House 00342092. Held by: Glamorgan Archives; Companies House.
  • MissingAny 1949 offer to Mary concerning Parcel A, and her reply. None has been found. The judgment records two later offers to Mary: the undated farmhouse-and-garden offer after 1955 (para 7) and a tenancy offered to Mrs Buckler by Western Ground Rents’ agents in March 1965 (para 22).Where: The landlords’ agents’ 1949–52 file (before the court in 1986); Western Ground Rents volumes D696. Held by: the BP side’s solicitors; Glamorgan Archives.
  • MissingThe 1955 possession order itself (EV-0032).Where: High Court (Queen’s Bench) records. Held by: HM Courts & Tribunals Service; The National Archives.
  • MissingThe full Western Mail page of 20 Nov 1958 (only a snippet is held).Where: Western Mail, 20 Nov 1958, p. 7. Held by: British Library newspaper collections; Cardiff Central Library.
  • MissingThe 29 Mar 1961 deed and plan.Where: A copy is filed under WA231076; Cardiff Council deeds. Held by: HM Land Registry; Cardiff Council.
  • MissingThe 31 Dec 1969 conveyance to BP Pension Trust (missing from the Land Registry files).Where: BP’s deeds; Linklaters’ 1982 lodgement. Held by: BP; HM Land Registry.
  • MissingThe 1971 abstract of title.Where: HM Land Registry first-registration files (30 items WA231076, 13 items WA240304). Held by: HM Land Registry.
  • MissingThe WA231076 and WA240304 application papers, including what was declared about persons in occupation.Where: First-registration files (copies on form OC2; subject access request N610CGV / D260928, due 28 Oct 2026). Held by: HM Land Registry.
  • MissingCadw’s July–December 1988 listing file (only two photographs survive).Where: Cadw / Welsh Government (FOI refused 19 Oct 2026 as similar to ATISN 27021); Welsh Office files. Held by: Cadw; The National Archives.
  • MissingWilliam’s death register entry.Where: GRO death index and certificate. Held by: General Register Office.
  • MissingWestern Ground Rents’ company file and records after the 1997 winding-up.Where: Companies House 00342092; TNA BT 31 (reference not confirmed). Held by: Companies House; The National Archives.
  • MissingThe answers still due: HM Land Registry subject access (28 Oct 2026), the first-registration copies (form OC2), the Independent Complaints Reviewer’s review, Cardiff Library’s Bute X.6(12), and the Glamorgan Archives D696 search.Where: As listed. Held by: HM Land Registry; Cardiff Central Library; Glamorgan Archives.