Article: New Domesday Book ready by 2012.(News)

Byline: By SAM BURSON Western Mail

More than 900 years after the original was written, a new Domesday Book is being compiled. The Government is repeating the exercise of William the Conqueror who, in 1085, demanded details of all his new lands in Britain.

Now the Land Registry has been charged with making sure, by 2012, that there is no secret land ownership in the UK.

It wants every square inch to be officially catalogued and registered to an owner.

That is now the case with just half of the country, with the rest of the landscape ...

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