David Pedley is a retired conveyancing solicitor and guest author at Today’s Conveyancer.
It seems that up to the 20th century, no formal searches were made as to public access to a property. Local solicitors knew which were public highways. Until the 1970s, conveyancers rarely bothered much about
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