I would appreciate some advice about Rights of Way.
We access a small bit of land that has been owned and used by our family for over 100 years by going over a small roadway that's on another man's land. We do not have a registered right of way for to do this with land registry. The land was sold 5 or 6 years ago. This week, the owner stopped us from using this roadway. he has put up a fence. We believe that we have a right of way because of long use and will visit our solicitor for advice.
However, I went onto the land registry website and purchased the folio. The details that I received shows that the person who stopped us from using the right of way is not the owner. The full owner is in fact still the person who sold the land to this man.
I want to know about land registry? After 6 years, why would the title of the land not have gone to the new owner? Could there be a dispute? Can the title holder of the land grant us a right of way once he is recognised as the title holder by land registry? (We believe that the reason why the new landowner blocked us is because we are friendly with the old land owner and they are in dispute over a separate piece of land. We often help the old owner and we believe that he would be willing to grant us right away across this path if he could).