Farms and estates held for generations often rest on maps centuries old. We scan, restore and digitise them, so you can show exactly what your family has held, field by field, and sometimes find land the deeds have forgotten.
The Land Registry is digital, but its records reach back only so far. Families and estates that have held land for centuries prove what they own with the original maps and their descriptions. Scanned, they can show land the deeds have forgotten.
An illustration, not a valuation or legal advice: land values vary, and whether a map supports a claim is for your solicitor and the Land Registry.
Hand-drawn maps of fields, woods and boundaries, scanned whole and in colour.
The maps and awards that fixed who owned what, and where.
Title deeds and conveyances, scanned and transcribed so they can be searched.
The written surveys that describe each field, its name and its size.
Records of tenancies and rents that show the land in use.
Old boundaries traced into maps for today’s farm and estate software.
Much of England has been held by the same families since long before the Land Registry existed. When boundaries are questioned, or land is registered for the first time, what counts is the evidence: the old map, and the description of the land that went with it.
Those maps are often fragile, faded and folded into a drawer. Scanned and restored, every field and boundary can be read again and set against the land as it is today, and the original can go back into safe keeping.
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The original plans of the park at Boughton House, the “English Versailles”, scanned and restored to their colours, from which the park is being replanted 300 years on.
It can be the evidence that shows what your family has held. Whether it changes your registered title is for your solicitor and the Land Registry; we make sure the map can be read and relied on.
Typically a few hundred pounds for a set of farm or estate maps, depending on their size, number and condition. Tell us what you have and we will quote.
We can collect them in fireproof boxes and return them safely, or you can bring them to the studio in Pytchley.
Tell us what you hold, and we will suggest the best way to preserve it.