About
Great House Farm (Tŷ Mawr) stood beside St Dochdwy’s church at Llandough-juxta-Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan. The Williams family farmed there under the Bute estate. Mary (Nancy) Williams married Frederick Buckler in 1936, and the family stayed in the farmhouse through a series of possession actions brought by later owners.
In BP Properties Ltd v Buckler [1987] EWCA Civ 2 the Court of Appeal dismissed William Buckler’s appeal. The House of Lords refused leave in March 1988. The farmhouse was demolished in December 1988 and houses were later built on the site.
The family says the farmhouse land was theirs by long occupation. That is our case; it is not a finding of any court. Where this page says what a document shows, it quotes or summarises that document and links to it.
Key dates
- c. 650 St Dochdwy’s, beside the farm, thought to be an early monastery (SOURCE PENDING)
- 1667 Williams family occupation begins, per Mary (Nancy) Williams’s statement
- 1824 Bute estate survey: “Cedfin or Ty Mawr Farm”
- February 1916 Bute lets the whole farm to John Williams on a yearly tenancy
- 1928 Last quarry rent paid; on our case the 1877 arrangement takes effect
- 1938 Bute reversion conveyed to Western Ground Rents
- 2 February 1955 High Court possession order against Frederick alone
- 31 December 1969 Western Ground Rents sells to BP Pension Trust
- 30 November 1982 First registration WA231076 applied for; WA240304 follows on 23 Feb 1983
- 26 March 1983 Mary (Nancy) Williams dies at the farmhouse
- 22 May 1984 BP writ for possession
- 31 July 1987 Court of Appeal dismisses the appeal
- 3 March 1988 House of Lords refuses leave to appeal
- 29 April 1988 First eviction attempt fails
- 6 December 1988 Farmhouse demolished
- 14 April 1989 European Commission declares the application inadmissible
- 2026 Records requests, HM Land Registry complaint and alteration application
Links
- Great House Farm wiki: the evidence, page by page
- Master Timeline and Evidence Register
- bpvsbuckler: the story in scenes
- dartboard: the evidence board
- email archive: the correspondence
- bucklerfamily.estate
How this page works
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