The parties’ neighbouring properties were in common ownership before division occurred and the question of the boundary could arise.
At the respective dates of purchase from the common vendor each of the purchasing parties reasonably believed that the relevant conveyancing documents gave them title to the bed of a narrow stream.
A plan taken from the Ordnance Survey map and attached to the conveyance of the first area of land sold off showed a black wiggly line. It is agreed that the line represented the stream.
