The tithe apportionment for Landough, Cogan and Leckwith lists John Williams as occupier of the Great House Farm holding, 36 plots; its landowner column, the column that names who answered for the tithe, names the Marquess of Bute. A tithe column is not a deed and shows no conveyance to Bute.
Source: EV-0215

A later statement (c.1974): the Bute Estate sold the farmhouse, buildings and about 10 acres to Daniel Thomas and kept about 9 acres (Parcel B). John Williams, the farmer at Great House Farm, took a tenancy from Thomas for quarrying (the statement dates his lease 6 November 1877), and “when the quarrying ceased the freehold should belong to [John Williams]”. The 1877 instrument itself is not published here (EV-0006).
Source: EV-0006 · The Two Parcels · Mary (Nancy) Williams testimony

John Williams died in 1908 and his son, also named John Williams, took over the farm (Barry Dock News, 23 Oct 1908, EV-0243; a later statement, c.1974). The Court of Appeal’s history describes a February 1916 yearly agricultural tenancy of the “whole farm”. How this “whole farm” letting maps onto the provisional Parcel A / Parcel B polygons awaits the tenancy and its plan (EV-0014). The Williams family acquired Tŷ Mawr in 1667 (Mary Williams’ statement, 1974 newspapers; ITV News, 1988). The tenancy (EV-0014) is not published here.
Source: BP Properties Ltd v Buckler [1987] EWCA Civ 2 · EV-0014

Archive catalogue history: after 1900 the Glamorgan estate was divided; the remaining Bute property was incorporated as Mountjoy Ltd in 1926.
Source: Glamorgan Archives DA catalogue

Mary (Nancy) Williams, John Williams’s daughter, was born at Great House Farm on 10 August 1913. Her statement (c.1974): the quarry machinery was removed in 1928 and her father made the last payment of rent, about £4 a year, to Alfred Thomas. “After this my father regarded the farm as his own.” The Glamorgan Archives catalogue lists a sale catalogue of the Llandough Quarry plant and tramlines dated 10 Nov 1925, so quarrying had ended by then.
Source: EV-0016 · Mary (Nancy) Williams’s statement · Mary (Nancy) Williams testimony · Glamorgan Archives DSA/12/4888

Sale announced 17 May 1938 and completed 23 Dec 1938. Later WGR deeds deduce title from “a Conveyance on sale dated 25th December 1938” (EV-0216). Exactly which land the 1938 deed and plan (EV-0019) conveyed is the open question.
Source: EV-0216 · EV-0019 · 1938 press report

The May 1939 WGR agreement (Glamorgan Archives DBDT123/7) is a monthly let “as meadow or pasture land”; its plan shows the eastern fields only (the provisional Parcel B). The plan fixes the extent of this 1939 letting; what WGR acquired in 1938 is a separate question that the 1938 conveyance and plan (EV-0019) would answer.
Source: EV-0023

Cardiff Parks: “The Council acquired a part of Leckwith Woods comprising some 109 acres as a gift from Western Ground Rents Ltd … offered and accepted in 1940, though the transfer of ownership was not formally completed until April 1942.” The deed carries a recreation-only covenant. The Western Mail (18 Mar 1955) reports the woods were “bought by the corporation for a nominal sum in 1942”. Not seen: the 1942 deed and plan. The gift is of Leckwith Woods, which lies in Leckwith, not Llandough.
Source: EV-0220 · Cardiff Parks page

Frederick Buckler married Mary (Nancy) Williams in 1936 and, from 1944, ran the farm as manager for her father (her statement, c.1974). The Court of Appeal (1987) records that Mr Williams “fell into arrears with his rent in the mid-1930s and in the late 1940s. Because of that, 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”. It records: “It was intended that Mr Frederick Buckler should have a written tenancy agreement, but this did not happen because Mr Frederick Buckler also failed to pay the rent.” The landlords’ agents wrote to their solicitors on 10 October 1952 “that they did not propose to proceed with the letting to Mr Frederick Buckler”. Mary (Nancy) Williams’s own statement (c.1974): “I have never had any doubt that I was entitled to do so nor have I ever paid rent to or acknowledged the title of anyone as landlord.” In November 1958 she told Glamorgan County Council’s planning committee that “the water was cut off from her house and grounds for nearly 10 years by order of Western Ground Rents” (Western Mail, 20 Nov 1958, p.7; newspaper-archive OCR, page image not seen).
Source: 1987 judgment · GHF-E122 · Mary (Nancy) Williams’s statement (GHF-E196-01) · EV-0037 · Permissive-occupancy claim

The Court of Appeal records that WGR obtained a High Court possession order against Frederick Buckler “in respect of the whole of the farm”, and: “On July 4 1955 that possession order was enforced, and possession was taken in respect of all parts of the farm except the farmhouse and garden.” It gives the reason: Mary “had recently come out of hospital after having had a leg amputated and was objecting very strongly to leaving the farmhouse.” Working hypothesis (not a record; the order, warrant, execution return and plan are not yet assembled): the order was made against Frederick, whose farm tenancy had ended, and the land WGR let is the eastern fields, Parcel B, on the 1939 WGR plan (EV-0023). On the 1947 Ordnance Survey (25-inch, Glamorgan sheet XLVII.6, revised 1941) the Ty-mawr house and yard sit between the wooded old limekiln and quarry ground to the north and the open ground to the south-east. The Three Parts of Parcel A page identified those two areas as Parcel A’s woodland and green; the family’s boundary plan shows the Parcel A line ending before the green begins, so the green is separate ground outside Parcel A. Taking “all parts of the farm except the farmhouse and garden” therefore took the woodland and the green along with Parcel B, and left Mary in the third part, the house. This station sits on Parcel B; the woodland and the green have their own lines. The order and execution return (EV-0032, EV-0034) are not published here.
Source: 1987 judgment · The 1955 Possession Order · EV-0023 · 1947 Ordnance Survey (sheet XLVII.6) · Three Parts of Parcel A · EV-0032 · EV-0034

Mary appears in the press under her married name, Mrs Buckler. At the 6 May 1958 inquiry into Cardiff City Council’s plan to turn Leckwith Common into playing fields, the Western Mail (7 May 1958, p.7) reports: “Mrs. Mary Doreen Buckler, of Great House Farm, Llandough, said she did not oppose the proposal so long as it applied only to playing fields. About 130 years ago Lord Bute allowed her family ‘a slice of land’ which was now Leckwith Common.” The inquiry concerned Leckwith Common, not Great House Farm or Parcel A. Quoted from the newspaper archive’s OCR; page image not seen.
Source: EV-0035

The Western Mail (20 November 1958, p.7) reports the planning committee meeting of 19 November 1958: “Mrs. M D. Buckler was objecting to further industrial development in the vicinity of her farm, Ty Mawr, Penarth Road, Llandough.” Land farmed by her family since 1667 had been “wrongfully appropriated”. “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 …” “Mrs. Buckler claimed that the water was cut off from her house and grounds for nearly 10 years by order of Western Ground Rents.” Quoted from the newspaper archive’s OCR (search-result snippets; the sentence breaks off after “taken”); page image not seen.
Source: EV-0037

The Court of Appeal records that by 1959 Mary asserted title to Great House Farm through her grandfather, John Williams, and: “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.” The green lies south of the house and garden, now the Church View Close park, and was registered as village green VG41 on 16 June 1970. The offer and her reply (EV-0039) are not published here.
Source: 1987 judgment · EV-0039 · EV-0044

The woodland register WA735527 lists “a Deed dated 29 March 1961 made between (1) Western Ground Rents Limited (2) The South Western Brick & Tile Company Limited and (3) Cardiff City Corporation”; the land tinted pink is subject to the rights in it, and the register notes “Copy filed under WA231076”. The deed and its plan (EV-0040) have not been inspected, so its terms and precise extent, and what Cardiff City Corporation received, are not known. The 1994 transfer to Forest of Cardiff, from Ideal Homes Wales Ltd (register WA735527, entry 8), is a separate record; no transfer from Cardiff City Corporation is on record.
Source: EV-0040 · EV-0169 · register WA735527

The Court of Appeal records that WGR sued Frederick and Mary Buckler in Cardiff County Court “for possession of the farmhouse and garden and mesne profits since 1955”, that “On December 11 1962 a possession order was made by Judge Temple Morris QC”, and that “nothing was done before 1974 to enforce the 1962 possession order”. The original order and plan (EV-0041) are not published here.
Source: 1987 judgment · EV-0041 · The 1962 Possession Order

Recorded in the Court of Appeal’s history: in March 1965 WGR’s agents offered Mrs Buckler a tenancy. Not signed; no rent paid.
Source: 1987 judgment · EV-0039

A compulsory-purchase compensation case, catalogued at The National Archives. Which land it concerned has not been read.
Source: TNA catalogue entry

Conveyance recited as the root of BP’s title. The instrument and plan (EV-0043) are not published here. The same conveyance carried Parcel B, so the station shows on both lines. In September 1974 BP applied for leave to enforce the 1962 order, so it held that order’s benefit.
Source: 1987 judgment · EV-0043

The date as recorded on the wiki. The application, map and ownership section of the VG41 file are not published here; registration as a green does not by itself show who owns it. Llandough Community Council states that it “owns and maintains the village green”.
Source: EV-0044 · community council website

On the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 sheet revised 1969 (published 1971) the name appears as “Ty Mawr Farm”, placed west of where earlier editions printed “Ty-mawr” (OS object name book, EV-0252). Why the name moved is an open question. On the earlier OS editions of 25-inch sheet XLVII.6 (1900, 1920 and 1947) the “Ty-mawr” name sits on the house parcel, Parcel A. The one 1971 record known on this line is BP Pension Trust’s 1971 abstract of title, known only from later recitals (EV-0045).
Source: EV-0045 · OS sheet XLVII.6, 1947

On 15 April 1974 Mary opened the farmhouse to the public and said: “my solicitors tell me I have a valid claim to it” (Daily Telegraph, 16 April 1974). BP brought a fresh county-court action for possession; on 3 July 1974 the hearing was adjourned part heard for a formal defence; Mary’s defence then pleaded that she owned the house parcel, relying on the Limitation Act 1939. It was never listed again. BP also obtained leave on 19 Sep 1974 to enforce the 1962 order; Mary’s solicitors appealed because she had not been given notice, and after BP’s licence letters of 31 Oct 1974 the landlords’ solicitors withdrew the warrant, at a date before 25 Nov 1974. The court papers are not published here (EV-0049).
Source: EV-0048 · EV-0049 · The 1974 Licence Letters

The letters were one-sided: the judgment records that Mrs Buckler “never expressly accepted or rejected the terms of the two letters”. In July 1974 her defence had asserted that the claim was barred by adverse possession. The Court of Appeal (1987) held: “whether she liked it or not, from the time of her receipt of the letters, Mrs Buckler was in possession of the farmhouse and garden by the licence of BP Properties Ltd, and her possession was no longer adverse” (Dillon LJ).
Source: EV-0050 · EV-0080

Application date from HM Land Registry’s file schedule (30 items).
Source: EV-0170 · Land Registry titles

HMLR’s schedule dates the Form 1C and first register edition 23 Feb 1983; examination continued to May 1983. Mary (Nancy) Williams died on 26 Mar 1983.
Source: EV-0066 · EV-0063

Amalgamation recorded during the appeal. Whether it changed extent, class of title, parties’ rights or the issues on appeal awaits the application, plan and registrar’s notes; the application and plan (EV-0078) are not published here.
Source: EV-0078 · 1987 amalgamation

The appeal concerned the farmhouse and garden only. The Court of Appeal (1987) held: “whether she liked it or not, from the time of her receipt of the letters, Mrs Buckler was in possession of the farmhouse and garden by the licence of BP Properties Ltd, and her possession was no longer adverse”, so the adverse-possession claim to the farmhouse and garden failed. From here no register shows the Williams Parcel A title; the line runs on unregistered.
Source: judgment (BAILII) · EV-0080

Possession was enforced at the end of November 1988 (forced entry reported for 30 Nov). The farmhouse was demolished in early December 1988: 6 December in this entry’s sources (EV-0108), reported on 7 December (EV-0106). The exact day is an open question.
Source: 1988 demolition · EV-0108

BP Properties’ outline application (received 8 Nov 1989; granted 13 Mar 1990). The planning officer’s report lists among the consultees: “Cardiff Bay Development Corporation: No objections – however, the Corporation would hope that the trees on the slope of the site facing north-west are retained and that the public right of way which runs through the site will be retained.” This is Cardiff Bay Development Corporation, not Cardiff City Council. The full response is outstanding; it was requested from the Vale on 18 Sep 2026.
Source: EV-0201 (report scan, p.1) · EV-0124 · request to the Vale

Ideal Homes Wales’ Form D (14 May 1992) names no Cardiff City or Cardiff Bay body. It answers “No” to felling trees and “No” to altering or diverting a public right of way. The GGAT letter of 27 Jul 1992 (EV-0128) is not published here.
Source: EV-0127 (form scan) · EV-0128

Recorded in the woodland title history on the wiki; the houses became Church View Close. Forest of Cardiff states that it bought the woodland from Ideal Homes (now Persimmon) “after due diligence”. Deed not seen.
Source: Forest of Cardiff review

Transfer with plan to Forest of Cardiff, registered as WA735527. The current register (EV-0169) was read; the 1994 transfer itself (EV-0136) is not published here. Forest of Cardiff’s accounts to 31 Mar 1995 show no land as an asset. The register (B1) enters Forest of Cardiff as proprietor on 25 Nov 1994. It recites a 23 May 1975 conveyance of part (“the land tinted blue … and other land”) from The British Petroleum Pension Trust to B.P. Properties Ltd, and notes copies of earlier deeds as “filed under WA231076”. It is a separate event from the 1961 deed.
Source: EV-0169 · EV-0136

A 2005 transfer excised land from WA735527 (EV-0139); register entry A4 dated 22 Dec 2005 records the excised land being registered under a new title. Forest of Cardiff’s audited accounts to 30 Jun 2006 record “Sale of Land – Leckwith Road, Llandough £20,000”.
Source: EV-0217 · EV-0139

Merged title WA231076 (house third + Parcel B): built over as Church View Close. Forest third: Forest of Cardiff, WA735527. The green (outside Parcel A): village green VG41. Provisional Parcel A: no register shows a Williams title; present legal status unresolved. HM Land Registry copies of the 1982–83 files are on order.
Source: Land Registry titles · EV-0169 · EV-0044

No deed of sale by Mary (Nancy) Williams is on file, and the 1987 appeal decided the farmhouse and garden only. No register read so far shows a Williams title to the provisional Parcel A; a register cannot prove a negative. SOURCE PENDING A sale c.1965 reported in a cousin’s written account is unidentified.
Source: Parcel A / B claim · Three Parts of Parcel A