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Roadmap update — 10-10-2026: For the cross-institution, people-and-records chronology from 1877 to the current disclosure work, use the Institutional Involvement Roadmap. The reported 1988 Cadw-to-Minister spot-listing letter has its own placeholder at GHF-E152; its original is not attached as at 10-10-2026.

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An index of every dated event in the history of Great House Farm, one line each. Each line links to the page where the event, its evidence and its sources are set out in full. Parcel badges refer to the two parcels.

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Controlling Parcel-A chronology — 9 October 2026. The family’s established title case is that the 1877 arrangement took effect in 1928 when quarrying and rent to Thomas ended, passing the full Parcel A to the Williams family. Parcel A includes the farmhouse/buildings, barn, stable and yard west of the house, garden, north forest and south-east ground later registered as VG41. Parcel B is the separate eastern agricultural fields. The 1939 WGR–John Williams agreement/plan is already obtained and depicts Parcel B only. The title papers went missing in 1950–52 (Mary (Nancy) Williams, witness statement c.1974 (Mary (Nancy) Williams testimony)). [SOURCE PENDING] The 1949 attempt to make Mary’s Parcel-A occupation permissive failed, and on 4 July 1955 WGR seized the north forest and south-east green while enforcing possession of Parcel B under “whole farm” wording. Mary’s defence of the occupied house/buildings/garden group did not narrow her full Parcel-A title claim.

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Events, in date order

c. AD 650 – 1915: Monastery, Bute tenancy and the 1877 agreement
  • c. 650 — St Dochdwy’s, beside the farm, thought to be an early monastery (SOURCE PENDING; published reference awaited) (archaeology)Parcel unclear
  • 1667 — Williams family occupation begins, per Mary’s statement (earlier written source awaited) (family origins)Parcel A
  • 1824 — Stewart’s survey of the Bute estates, plan 19 “Cedfin or Ty Mawr Farm”: 139a 3r 8p, including 20a 2r 35p of wood; tenant read as John Gedrick; 10a 3r 39p of “late Thos. Williams” land added (Glamorgan Archives DB/E/1) (EV-0211)Archive photo held
  • 1855 — John Williams succeeds his father in the tenancy of the farm, per a 1904 press report: “He succeeded his father in the tenancy of the farm in 1855” (Cardiff Times, 16 Jul 1904, which calls him “of Llandough Farm”; that he is the Great House John Williams is an inference) (Cardiff Times 1904; EV-0224)Press report, 1904 — inference
  • 23 Dec 1864 — Amy Williams, “relict of the late Mr. John Williams, Great House farm”, dies at Llandough, aged 65 (EV-0246)Contemporary press
  • Unconfirmed 33-acre limeworks lead (date range unconfirmed) — The Wiki’s earlier D153/4–8 attribution remains a research lead, not a verified event. The NLW title-deeds list describes D153/1–8 as deeds concerning premises in Llandough (including a dwelling house adjoining the churchyard, D153/1–2, 1811) and dates the parent series 1811–1912. That does not establish that D153/4–8 records 33 acres, that quarrying occurred from 1876 to 1912, or that the premises were Great House Farm. See SC-21 and Llandough Limeworks; parcel and ownership remain unassigned.Original pending — parcel unassigned
  • 9 Apr 1872 — Llandough poor rate: John Williams rated for glebe land, owner Rev. H.H. Rickards (rate book, reference pending) (EV-0212)Provisional reading
  • Oct 1876 — Llandough poor rate: John Williams rated for a farm, owner Lord Bute, c. 76a, gross £41 0s (same sequence in the rate of 20 Aug 187?, year unread); Lord Bute rated for woods in hand, 32a 3r 39p; Daniel Thomas & Son rated for a lime kiln and quarry (EV-0212)Provisional — read across the fold
  • 1877 — Bute serves notice to quit (Mary’s statement) (notice to quit)
  • 1877 — Mary (Nancy) Williams’s statement reports a sale of the farmhouse/buildings and about 10 acres to Daniel Thomas, with about 9 acres retained by Bute; original deed/plan missing (1877 sale, plan)
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  • 6 Nov 1877 — Date reported for a lease to John Williams in Mary (Nancy) Williams’s account; no matching Llandough instrument has been identified. The checked DBDT/79/1 item is a 2 May 1877 lease for Pembroke Terrace, Cardiff; other similarly named Cardiff lease references remain catalogue leads, not verified Llandough evidence (SC-20; 1877 Agreement). A Bute Trustees counterpart lease of this date to John Williams, builder, of System Street, Roath, for a plot in Clyde Street, Roath, is photographed; it is not the farm (EV-0213; Excluded).Original unlocated — parcel unassigned
  • 3 Apr 1881 — The 1881 census records John Williams, 53, “Farmer of 170[? or 120] ac.”, with his wife Mary and children at “Llandough Home Farm”, Llandough (RG11/5288 p.2). Per Sion Buckler, the census mixed up the Llandough farm with Great House Farm, so this is Great House Farm under another name (EV-0224)Farm name disputed
  • 11 Nov 1891 — Three geese stolen from “Mr. John Williams, Great House Farm, Llandough”; the court report is contemporary evidence of his occupation (press 1891)
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  • 10 Jun 1892 — South Wales Star reports geese stolen, “the property of Mr. John Williams, Great House Farm, Llandough, on November 11, 1891” (South Wales Star 1892; EV-0224)Contemporary press
  • Jul–Aug 1894 — Swine fever at Llandough: “Five pigs belonging to Mr Williams, Great House, have been slaughtered” (Barry Dock News, 3 Aug 1894) (EV-0247)Contemporary press
  • 6–15 May 1897 — George Kemp’s diary (Marconi’s assistant): Lavernock pole “107 ft”, Flat Holm “110 ft”, apparatus left “at Penarth”; no mention of Great House Farm (EV-0256)
  • 10–18 May 1897 — Marconi’s wireless trials with the Post Office at Lavernock Point, Flat Holm and Brean Down. The receiving pole at Lavernock was put up by “Mr. Williams (of the engineering department, Cardiff)” (Evening Express, 15 May 1897, p.4, identified 19 Oct 2026 as the cutting EV-0011). The first Brean Down tape is dated 18 May 1897. Marconi left England on 5 Jul 1897. Link to Great House: evidence being added. (EV-0248; press 1897)Contemporary press
  • 23 Feb 1905 — Bute conveyance, later on the WA231076 file and noted on WA735527 (deeds before registration)Parcel A — current interpretation
  • 29 Nov 1902 — Marquess of Bute’s coppice woods, incl. “Cwm Cydfin Wood, Leckwith and Llandough”, offered at auction (Stephenson & Alexander, particular 192; land or coppice only not stated) [EV-0219]
  • 1908 — Mary’s grandfather dies; John Williams takes over both tenancies (Mary’s statement) (John Williams)
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  • 23 Oct 1908 — Barry Dock News, p.3, “Court Leet at Llandough”: the court leet and court baron of the lordship of Bute passed “a vote of sympathy … with the family of the late Mr. John Williams, Great House, Llandough, for many years a juror of the court”. Fits Mary (Nancy) Williams’s statement that her grandfather died in 1908; jury service says nothing about ownership [EV-0243]
  • 1910 or 1911 — Frederick Buckler born (derived from death in 1967 aged 56; certificates awaited) (Frederick Buckler)
1916 – 1948: The tenancy, the 1924/1928 Parcel A split and WGR
  • Feb 1916 — Bute lets the whole farm to John Williams on a yearly tenancy (1987 judgment; ECHR decision) (1916 tenancy)
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  • 15 May 1924 — Agreement on the WA231076 file; contents and effect unknown (deeds before registration)Parcel unclear
  • 1928 — Last quarry machinery leaves and final rent of about £4 is paid to Alfred Thomas; on the family’s established title case, the 1877 arrangement then takes effect and the full Parcel A passes to the Williams family (Mary’s statement; receipt missing) [PENDING: EV-0016] (1928)Full Parcel A
  • 1936 — Mary (Nancy) Williams marries Frederick Buckler, who joins her at the farmhouse (marriage)Parcel A
  • c. 1937–40 — Eldest son born (family belief; birth entry to be traced) (family)
  • 1938 — Bute reversion conveyed to Western Ground Rents [PENDING: EV-0019] (1938)Parcel B
  • May 1939 — Revised tenancy from WGR to John Williams; plan shows the fields east of the house [EV-0023] (1939 tenancy, plan)Parcel B
  • c. 1940 — 12 years’ rent-free occupation of the house parcel since 1928 complete, on Mary (Nancy) Williams’s statement that rent was last paid in 1928 (c.1974; Mary (Nancy) Williams testimony) (c. 1940)Parcel A
  • 1940 – Apr 1942 — Western Ground Rents gives c.109 acres of Leckwith Woods to Cardiff council (offered and accepted 1940, completed April 1942; secondary source) [EV-0220]

    Working theories (evidence pending): the 1940–42 woods gift and Parcel A. This is our case, prospective, and not a finding. Each theory is stated as a theory, with its support and the record that would test it. Each rests on the dated records named and on Sion Buckler’s reading of them; evidence being added.

    • T1 (theory): the woods gift to Cardiff took in the woodland third of Parcel A. Support: the gift was “110 acres of wooded land at Leckwith” (Western Mail, 14 Sep 1940, p.5; press search snippet), about 109 acres in the council’s own history (Cardiff Parks; EV-0220); Parcel A’s woods are “practically Leckwith” and are now held by the Forest of Cardiff charity (Sion Buckler, 20 Oct 2026; charity 1002867; woodland title WA735527, transferred 10 Nov 1994: EV-0136, GHF-E149). Test: the April 1942 WGR → Cardiff conveyance and its plan, laid over the c.1841 tithe parcel 266 “Wood” and the WA735527 plan; Cardiff’s Parks Committee minutes of 15 Oct 1940 to 15 Apr 1942 (Glamorgan Archives BC/C/6/78–80). The plan will show whether the gift’s ground reaches the woods beside the farm, some of which straddle the Llandough–Leckwith line, or lies higher on Leckwith Hill.
    • T2 (theory): Parcel A went to the Williams family in 1928, so it was not in the 1938 Bute → Western Ground Rents conveyance. That would explain why WGR never let Parcel A to Williams. Support: Mary (Nancy) Williams’s statement (c.1974) that rent was last paid in 1928 (statement; EV-0016); the May 1939 WGR–John Williams tenancy plan shows Parcel B only (EV-0023). Point made by Sion Buckler (20 Oct 2026). Test: the conveyance of 25 Dec 1938 with its parcels and plan (EV-0019; root recited in EV-0216), and any 1928 receipt or instrument (EV-0016).
    • T3 (alternative theory): Parcel A did pass to WGR, and WGR gave part of its woods to Cardiff. On this reading the givers held Parcel A, or acted as if they did, while Mary (Nancy) Williams asserted that she owned it (Sion Buckler, 20 Oct 2026). Support: WGR let land at Llandough from 1939 to 1963 (Glamorgan Archives DBDT123/7–13; Woodland & Land-Transfer Assessment). Test: the same 1938 conveyance and 1942 plan.
    • Possible connection: the 1949 attempt to make Mary’s Parcel-A occupation appear permissive (2 Feb 1949; SOURCE PENDING) and the 29 Mar 1961 deed between WGR, South Western Brick & Tile and “Cardiff City”, recited on the Forest of Cardiff woodland title WA735527, pink strand (GHF-E129; EV-0040), may relate to this gift (Sion Buckler, 20 Oct 2026). Test: the 1961 deed and its plan, from the HM Land Registry title files.
  • 1941–43 — National Farm Survey, Penarth parish bundle (TNA MAF 32/1220/39; catalogue entry, not seen). That Great House Farm’s form is in this bundle is an inference (Llandough was added to Penarth in 1902); the forms of this series generally record occupier, owner and water supply [EV-0241]
  • 1944 — WAEC dissatisfied; Frederick runs the farm as manager for John Williams (Mary’s statement) (1944)Parcel B
  • c. 1945–1955 — Note and sketch of the old village layout by Mrs Nancy Buckler of Great House Farm; the note names her father as John Williams of Great House Farm, “born about 1867” (Glamorgan Archives D/D XJF 64/30–31) (EV-0155)Archive photo held
1948 – 1968: Possession orders and refusals
  • c. 1948–49 — William (Billy) Buckler born at the farm; lives there until 1988 (William)Parcel A
  • c. 1948–49 — Start of the water cut-off to the farmhouse and grounds, inferred from Mrs Buckler’s 1958 statement that it had been cut off “for nearly 10 years by order of Western Ground Rents” (EV-0037, snippet only). Per Branwen Buckler (voice testimony), cattle drowned in the River Ely trying to reach water (testimony; no record found). Date conflict: SC-48.Date inferred
  • 2 Feb 1949 — John Williams’s tenancy surrendered and Frederick’s unwritten yearly agricultural tenancy from WGR begins for Parcel B. [SOURCE PENDING] This was the first later attempt to make Mary’s separate Parcel-A occupation appear permissive; that attempt failed (Frederick’s tenancy, surrender)Parcel B tenancy
  • June 1950 – c. 1952 — Mary reports that family papers including the title/farm agreement were missing from the farmhouse blanket box; a lodger later told her he had taken them at Mr Knapp’s request (Mary (Nancy) Williams, witness statement c.1974 (Mary (Nancy) Williams testimony); papers missing)Parcel-A title papers
  • 10 Oct 1952 — Landlords’ agents decide not to proceed with the letting to Frederick (1952 letter)Parcel B
  • 1953 — Frederick’s last rent payment (Frederick’s tenancy)Parcel B
  • 2 Feb 1955 — High Court possession order against Frederick alone, worded for the whole farm; Mary not a party (1955 order)
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  • 18 Mar 1955 — Western Mail: Cardiff’s 176-acre Leckwith Woods “bought … for a nominal sum in 1942”; 106 acres leased to the Forestry Commission for 999 years. Measured: Leckwith Woods lies outside Llandough (EV-0259)
  • 4 Jul 1955 — While enforcing possession of Parcel B, WGR also seized, on the family’s established account, the Parcel-A forest north of the house and the south-east ground later registered as VG41 [PENDING: EV-0034]. Mary retained the occupied farmhouse/buildings/garden group after fierce resistance; that group was not the full extent of Parcel A (enforcement)Parcel B enforcedParcel-A forest + green seized
  • 9 Oct 1957 — Western Mail, p.6: an item carrying the name “Mrs. M. D. BUCKLER … Llandough” (search-result snippet only; content and subject unknown) [EV-0242]
  • 19 Nov – 11 Dec 1958 — Days 20–24 of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government public local inquiry into objections to the Glamorgan County Council Development Plan (Area No. 2); verbatim record at TNA BD 28/177 (catalogue entry; not yet read). Related plan files 1957–63: BD 28/133, BD 28/198, HLG 119, MAF 112/1108 [EV-0239] [EV-0240]
  • 20 Nov 1958 — Western Mail, p.7 (snippet only, EV-0037): “Mrs. Buckler claimed that the water was cut off from her house and grounds for nearly 10 years by order of Western Ground Rents.” She told the planning committee: “This is a Welsh case of Crichel Down.” The water date conflicts with a c.1988 cut-off (SC-48). The Press Archive also lists, unconfirmed, a Western Mail report, “It’s a Crichel Down, says woman farmer”, said to record Mrs Buckler alleging that councils and Western Ground Rents had “walked in and taken” the family’s land. The original article and exact wording have not been recovered; if authenticated, this would evidence a contemporary allegation, not prove ownership or unlawful taking. The reported reference to “Cardiff Rural Council” must be reconciled with the administrative correction in SC-22. Press Archive — unconfirmed referencesPress snippet only — page image not seen
  • 1959 — Mary refuses a tenancy of the occupied farmhouse/buildings/garden group and asserts ownership; this was the area she could physically defend after the 1955 seizure, not the full Parcel-A extent (1959 refusal)Occupied house group
  • 29 Mar 1961 — Deed on the WA231076 file; contents unknown (deeds before registration)Parcel unclear
  • 11 Dec 1962 — Cardiff County Court order against Frederick and Mary for the occupied farmhouse/buildings/garden group; not enforced [PENDING: EV-0041]. This was within Parcel A but not the full Parcel-A estate (1962 order)Occupied house group
  • 29 Jan – 5 Feb 1963 — Commons exchanges on Western Ground Rents Ltd and ministers (context only; nothing on Llandough or the farm) (EV-0261)
  • Jun 1963 — Mesne profits partly enforced against Frederick under the house-group proceedings (committal)Occupied house group
  • 1963 — Three skeletons reported in utility-trench works (secondary research-file account; underlying 1963 record awaited) (archaeology)Parcel unclear
  • Jan–Mar 1965 — WGR will not let Frederick the fields; weekly tenancy of the farmhouse offered to “Mrs Williams” on 2 Mar, not signed (1965 offer)Parcel A
  • 1964–67 — Rumoured sale of “our land parcel” by the eldest son (cousin’s account; no document found) (rumoured sale)Parcel unclear
  • 1967 — Frederick dies aged 56; Mary reverts to Williams and stays on (an estate paper gives Dec 1965; family takes 1967) (death)Parcel A
  • Sep 1968 – Sep 1969 — Eldest son’s household leaves the farm (SOURCE PENDING) (rumoured sale)Parcel A
1969 – 1983: BP, the licence letters and registration
1984 – 1989: The case, eviction and demolition
  • 1984 — Library copy of the Bute–Thomas deed reported missing (SOURCE PENDING) (library copy)Parcel A
  • 22 May 1984 — BP writ for possession (writ)Parcel A
  • 10 Jul 1986 — High Court hearing (Hollis J); judgment for BP given 24 Jul 1986, possession suspended six months (Court of Appeal judgment; South Wales Echo, 25 Jul 1986, p.3) [PENDING: EV-0074] (High Court)Parcel A
  • 2 Feb 1987 — Application to amalgamate the two titles, during the appeal (amalgamation, scrutiny)
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  • 31 Jul 1987 — Court of Appeal dismisses the appeal (Court of Appeal, what it omits)Parcel A
  • 9 Dec 1985 — Cwm Cydfin SSSI re-notified (NRW record); owner/occupier list not seen [EV-0218] [PENDING: EV-0221]
  • 1987 — Llandough Community Council: “no justification” for submitting a right of way from Great House Farm to the Swiss Cottages; no further action. Same minutes name Debenham Tewson as “the agents for BP Properties”; payments include “Debenham Tewson Licence Fee £5.50” (committee date pending) (EV-0214)Archive photo held — ref pending
  • 18 Nov 1987 — The appellant’s solicitors’ service company “John Loosemore & Co. Services” is renamed “Loosemores Services” (Companies House 01379651) (EV-0267)
  • Dec 1987 — Council minutes (meeting of 17 Dec 1987): a resident’s letter asks for VG41 to be “extended up to the farm wall”; the farm roadway called “an unofficial access route”; the council’s Penlan Road licence recorded as terminated by Debenham Tewson (EV-0214)Archive photo held — ref pending
  • 3 Mar 1988 — House of Lords refuses leave to appeal (House of Lords)Parcel A
  • 29 Apr 1988 — Eviction attempt fails: drive blocked by a tractor, doors axed, William holds the bailiffs off with a chainsaw; bailiffs withdraw after four hours (event nomenclature, press)Parcel A
  • 3 May 1988 — William applies to the European Commission of Human Rights (ECHR)Parcel A
  • 12 May 1988 — Alun Michael MP asks the Lord Chancellor to look at the case (South Wales Echo) (press)Parcel A
  • 29 Jul 1988 — Cadw inspects the farmhouse for listing (Cadw 1988)Parcel A
  • Oct–Nov 1988 — BP Pension Fund sells about 1,300 acres of Welsh land to Intercontinental Land & Development (Cardiff) Ltd (£29,375,400); the Land Authority for Wales buys plots at Llandough (press snippets). The farm site stays with BP Properties Ltd (EV-0270)
  • 12 Oct 1988 — Cadw lists Lower Farmhouse, Rhoose (13428): “Interior not available at resurvey” (comparator) (EV-0268)
  • 29/30 Nov 1988 — Possession obtained; bailiffs force entry (press: Wednesday 30 Nov); William taken to Llandough Hospital (event nomenclature, press)Parcel A
  • 2–3 Dec 1988 — Interim High Court injunction that the farmhouse must not be touched; Cadw considers spot-listing (event nomenclature, press)Parcel A
  • 1988, date not established (before Cadw’s 5 Dec 1988 decision) — Cadw officers come into the house and carry out a survey/report; they remark on the roof beams being high (witness statement of Branwen, given 19 Oct 2026: EV-0255). Inspection date SOURCE PENDING: Cadw’s photographs are dated 29 Jul 1988 (EV-0095); a further visit was announced for the weekend of 3–4 Dec 1988 (press). Our case (prospective): the inspection took place in the days before the refusal to spot-list. Cadw confirmed the inspection in writing on 11 Jun 2026 (ATISN 27021).Parcel A
  • 5 Dec 1988 — Judge Norman Francis refuses to continue the injunction pending the ECHR application; Cadw declines to list (event nomenclature, press)Parcel A
  • 30 Nov – 6 Dec 1988 — Outbuildings, then the farmhouse, demolished; the bulldozers moved in just after 4am on 6 Dec (event nomenclature, press)Parcel A
  • Jan 1989 — Threatening-behaviour summons for 29 Apr 1988 withdrawn as out of time (press)
  • 20 Mar 1989 — Lorries begin clearing the site (press)Parcel A
  • 23 Mar 1989 — William pleads guilty to the remaining charges and is freed (press)
  • 6 Apr 1989 — Cadw issues the Llandough community resurvey list (13430, 13431; church 13432 dated 4 Jun 1989), four months after the demolition (EV-0272)
  • 14 Apr 1989 — European Commission declares the application inadmissible [EV-0122] (ECHR)Parcel A
  • 10 Oct 1989 — BP sells Oakview (WA513690) (later dealings)Parcel unclear
  • Oct – 8 Nov 1989 — Outline application 89/01396/OUT (form dated October; received 8 November) (redevelopment)
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1990 – 2005: Housing, excavation and later dealings
  • 8 Feb 1990 — Further GGAT comments (Appendix B), missing from the file (redevelopment)
  • 23 Feb 1990 — South Wales Echo front page: homes bid on the Great House Farm land; Community Council makes no objection but wants a village green (snippet) (EV-0273)
  • 13 Mar 1990 — Outline permission granted with 18 conditions (redevelopment)
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  • 29 Apr 1990 — Probate calendar date of death for “William Beverley Buckler” (probable match for William “Billy” Buckler; identity not proven; conflicts with 29 May 1990 elsewhere); administration granted 11 Jul 1991 (EV-0274)
  • 29 May 1990 — William (Billy) Buckler dies (William)
  • Aug 1990 — GGAT field evaluation finds early-medieval burials (archaeology)Parcel unclear
  • 30 Oct 1990 — Welsh Office proposes the Old Barry Road, Llandough stopping-up order (inquiry 5 Nov 1991; order 18 Mar 1992) (EV-0275)
  • 14 May – 3 Sep 1992 — Reserved matters 92/00671/RES (20 houses) submitted and approved (redevelopment)
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  • 3 Dec 1993 — BP transfers to Ideal Homes (later dealings)
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  • Dec 1993 — Groundworks begin before the archaeological condition is met (archaeology)
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  • 1994 — Home Office licence to remove human remains (21 Mar); “preservation by record” agreed (4 May); Cotswold Archaeological Trust excavates the cemetery (archaeology)Parcel unclear
  • 10 Nov 1994 — Woodland (WA735527) transferred to Forest of Cardiff (woodland)Parcel A
  • 1995–96 — Rights to South Wales Electricity; Persimmon correspondence, last dealing on the file (later dealings)
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  • 16 May 1997 — Final meetings in the winding-up of Western Ground Rents Ltd and other BP pension companies (s.94 account of property disposed of) (EV-0277)
  • 2005 — Excavation published (814 articulated burials) (archaeology)Parcel unclear
  • 22 Dec 2005 — Part of the woodland title divided off (woodland)Parcel A
2019 – today: The records and the campaign
  • Mar 2019 — GGAT’s 1990 report accessioned to the national record (archaeology)
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  • 13 Feb – 30 Jul 2026 — Complaint to HM Land Registry, refused at both stages; schedule of files released (HMLR 2026)Parcel A
  • 2025–26 — Records requests to public bodies (Records Access Chronology)
  • Sep 2026 — Letter to the MP, Cadw complaint, Heneb records request; this wiki launched (22 Sep) (campaign)
  • 3 Oct 2026 — Newspaper cuttings from the family archive, Drive and email transcribed (15 items) (press archive)
  • 2025–26 correspondence steps (from Sion’s Gmail, checked 18 Oct 2026)
    • 23 Mar 2016 — Earliest case email in Sion’s mailbox: the BP Properties v Buckler (CA, 31 Jul 1987) report shared under “Quiet Title and Adverse Possession” (PENDING (private email, not published))
    • 17 Aug 2016 — Sion emails a solicitors’ firm “BP vs Buckler”; automatic reply only (PENDING (legal correspondence page held))
    • 14 Nov 2025 — Sion writes to Kanishka Narayan MP with a report; the LCC Clerk appears to have been copied (MPs correspondence M47)
    • 14 Nov 2025 — Cllr George Carroll (Vale councillor) replies once: “If you’d like to discuss, please let me know”; then silent to 6 later emails (Vale correspondence M49)
    • 20 Nov 2025 — LCC Clerk: “unable to assist with the matter you raise” (LCC correspondence M02)
    • 2 Feb 2026 — HMLR Customer Support asks for the title number and details of the suspected 1982 irregularities (HMLR correspondence M03)
    • 6 Feb 2026 — HMLR refers Sion’s emails on WA231076 to a senior officer (M05)
    • 13 Feb 2026 — HMLR Wales Office letter, ref WA231076/A/216/LG (M06)
    • 12–13 Mar 2026 — HMLR FOI team: cannot proceed without a title number (M11, M14)
    • 23 Mar 2026 — HMLR letter: WA231076 application received 30 Nov 1982 (Linklaters & Paines for BP Properties); WA240304 received 23 Feb 1983; titles amalgamated; “no evidence of a mistake in the register” (EV-0147; M16)
    • 13 Apr 2026 — HMLR FOI response F260213 (EV-0148)
    • 19 Apr 2026 — HMLR stage-one complaint decision; Sion’s stage-two complaint the same day (M20, M21)
    • 18 May 2026 — Sion’s FOI request to LCC (all records, incl. Billy Buckler addressing the council c.1988) (LCC M04)
    • 25 May 2026 — HMLR stage-two decision: “second and final response” (EV-0153; M27)
    • 11 Jun 2026 — Cadw ATISN 27021: the house was assessed for listing and “did not meet the listing criteria”; only record two 29 Jul 1988 photographs (EV-0094, EV-0095; Cadw M23)
    • 14 Jun 2026 — LCC Clerk: minutes from 1982 deposited at Glamorgan Archives in 2002; s.21 FOIA. Sion’s same-day follow-up unanswered (126 days at 18 Oct) (LCC M06, M07)
    • 16 Jul 2026 — South Wales Police FOI 719/26: “hold no information” (EV-0159; Police M33)
    • 30 Jul 2026 — HMLR lists the first-registration files: 30 items WA231076 (incl. amalgamation application 2 Feb 1987; BP→Ideal Homes transfer 3 Dec 1993), 13 items WA240304 (incl. Form 1C); copies £11 each on form OC2, by post, cheque (HMLR M39)
    • 14 Sep 2026 — Vale FOI 00211027 releases the 11 Jun 1965 school-site conveyance and the 1965 contract (EV-0042, EV-0216; Vale M109)
    • 18 Sep 2026 — Office of Stephen Doughty MP forwards a letter from HM Land Registry’s Chief Executive and Chief Land Registrar; the MP’s office awaits a Ministry of Justice reply (letter itself PENDING; MPs M92, M105)
    • 20 Sep 2026 — LCC Chair: “We have nothing more to add” (LCC M10)
    • 28 Sep 2026 — HM Land Registry’s Independent Complaints Reviewer allocates ICR/090/26 (per Sion’s reply; the ICR letter not found in the mailbox) (PENDING)
    • 10 Oct 2026 — HMLR internal application Z084NQV (ref N610CGV) “to investigate and correct any error that may have been made” on WA231076, opened after Sion raised the matter (HMLR M77)
    • 11 Oct 2026 — LCC Clerk refuses the 21 Sep request under s.12 (cost); other matters “considered at the October meeting”, no date (LCC M15)
    • 13 Oct 2026 — Sion asks LCC for an internal review; Clerk sends the agenda: 22 Oct 7pm, public “in person or remotely” (LCC M18)
    • 15 Oct 2026 — Sion applies to HMLR to alter the register (Z084NQV / N610CGV, WA240304 and WA231076) (HMLR M78)
    • 16 Oct 2026 — LCC Clerk: the 22 Oct meeting “will now be held remotely only”; Sion objects the same day (no reply by 18 Oct) (LCC M22, M23)
    • 19 Oct 2026 — Welsh Government answers ATISN 26-0010 (retention and destruction schedules): searches for the farm name, Western Ground Rents Ltd and BP Properties Ltd found no files; routine records “would have been destroyed in line with the corporate retention schedule applied at the time” (Cadw/WG M71; EV-0244; letter (PDF))
    • 19 Oct 2026 — Cadw refuses ATISN 27589 (July–December 1988 listing papers) under FOIA s.14(2) as “substantially similar” to ATISN 27021; the letter names the ICO (Cadw/WG M72; EV-0245; letter (PDF))
    • 19 Oct 2026 — Branwen gives Sion Buckler her witness statement: Cadw officers came into the house in 1988, carried out a survey/report and remarked on the roof beams being high (EV-0255)
    • 22 Oct 2026 — LCC meeting, 7pm, remote only (scheduled) (LCC M22)
    • 26 Oct 2026 — Wales Office internal review of 26FOI 103 due (per Sion’s email; not checked against the authority’s letter) (PENDING)

    Procedure note (not an admission): under HMLR Practice Guide 39, if HMLR finds a mistake it gives notice to the registered proprietors and others affected; an objection that is not groundless goes to negotiation and then the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber); outcomes are no change, alteration/rectification of the register, and/or indemnity (LRA 2002 Sch 4 and Sch 8). The 10 Oct letter does not say whether Z084NQV is a formal Sch 4 application.

  • Now — Current status and live processes (where things stand)
Change control, 3 October 2026: the line “19… … read more

Change control, 3 October 2026: the line “19 Nov 1977 — ‘Open day’ newspaper report” has been replaced. The open day was 15 April 1974, reported in the Daily Telegraph of 16 April 1974. The Rees letter, dated “19/11/7?” in the copy held, is listed separately with its year unresolved. The 1988–89 press entries have been added from the transcribed cuttings.

See also: Evidence Library · Press Archive … … read more

See also: Evidence Library · Press Archive — Newspaper Transcripts · Mary (Nancy) Williams’s statement · Sources and archives · Woodland · Main Page

Wider Cedwyn Estate theory cross-reference: The chronology now has a wider Cedwyn Estate / repeated parcel-capture hypothesis to test. Record each event as more evidence only for the specific proposition it actually supports; the 1949–1961 interval is twelve years, 1959–1970 is about eleven, and the events must still be tied to matching parcels and documents. Read the Cedwyn Estate Working Theory.

Page version & change log

Current version: 1.0.5

VersionDate (UTC)Editor (human or agent name)ChangeSource / evidence
1.0.52026-10-20T02:58ZTab (for Sion Buckler)13 dated entries added for EV-0256 to EV-0277 (reconcile of research finds 16–20 Oct 2026). Nothing removed.Sion Buckler’s instruction, 20 Oct 2026 03:44 BST (reconcile of research finds 16–20 Oct)
1.0.42026-10-20T00:37ZTab (for Sion Buckler)Added two entries: 1988 Cadw inspection of the house (date not established, before the 5 Dec 1988 refusal) and 19 Oct 2026 witness statement of Branwen (EV-0255). No existing entry changed.Sion Buckler’s instruction, 20 Oct 2026 01:29 BST / Master Change Log (3923)
1.0.32026-10-19T23:34ZTab (for Sion Buckler)1940–42 woods gift: parcel A working theories (T1–T3 and the 1949/1961 connection, evidence pending). Citations unchanged.Sion Buckler’s instruction, 20 Oct 2026 00:08 BST / Master Change Log (3923)
1.0.22026-10-19T23:03ZTab (for Sion Buckler)Marconi entries: neutral wording pending evidence (marker “Link to Great House: evidence being added.”). Citations unchanged.Sion Buckler’s instruction, 19 Oct 2026 23:52 BST / Master Change Log (3923)
1.0.12026-10-18T15:16ZTab (for Sion Buckler)Correction (18 Oct 2026): Item 2: 10 July was the hearing; judgment 24 July 1986.Corrections log — 18 Oct 2026 (page 3919) / Master Change Log (3923)
1.0.02026-10-18T15:16ZTab (for Sion Buckler)Footer standardised; no content changeEditing Protocol, 18 Oct 2026

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