You can find property boundary lines in England and Wales by searching the street address on MapMyLot. The boundary polygon appears on the map instantly - no title number, no account, no navigating through government portals. MapMyLot is the only free interactive tool covering England and Wales from a plain street address, using HM Land Registry INSPIRE data.
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Find my boundaryIn England and Wales, HM Land Registry records the general position of a property boundary on a title plan. The title plan is attached to the register entry for each property and shows the extent of the registered title. However, the Land Registration Act 2002 draws a distinction between the general boundary (what is recorded) and the exact legal boundary (which may require a formal boundary agreement or court determination to establish).
For most practical purposes - checking fence positions, planning extensions, confirming lot area - the general boundary as shown in the INSPIRE dataset is sufficient. For boundary disputes or legal proceedings, you would need additional evidence such as title deeds, old conveyances, or a professional boundary survey.
INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community) is a directive that requires public bodies to publish geospatial data openly. HM Land Registry publishes the Cadastral Parcels dataset under this directive, available at use-land-property-data.service.gov.uk. The dataset covers registered properties in England and Wales - approximately 24 million parcels in total.
The raw INSPIRE data is published in GML format, projected in EPSG:27700 (British National Grid). MapMyLot processes this GML data from approximately 5,800 zip files, reprojects it to WGS84 (EPSG:4326) for display on the map, and stores it in PostGIS for fast address-based lookup. The result is that you can find any registered property in England or Wales by street address without knowing the title number.
INSPIRE boundaries are "indicative general boundaries." HM Land Registry is clear that these boundaries show the general position of the boundary as registered - they are not a guarantee of the precise legal boundary on the ground. In older properties with titles that predate the compulsory registration era, the boundary on the title plan may reflect an old conveyance that did not precisely map to surveyed coordinates.
Properties in Scotland are not included in the HM Land Registry INSPIRE dataset. Scotland has its own land register managed by Registers of Scotland. MapMyLot covers Scotland separately using RoS Cadastral Parcel data.
Search your street address on MapMyLot to see the property boundary as a highlighted polygon on the map. The data comes from HM Land Registry INSPIRE, the official cadastral dataset for England and Wales. No title number or account is required.
INSPIRE requires HM Land Registry to publish cadastral boundary data as open data. The dataset covers registered properties in England and Wales and is updated regularly. It is available at use-land-property-data.service.gov.uk.
No. INSPIRE boundaries are indicative general boundaries, not the exact legal boundary. HM Land Registry records the general position of a boundary, not its precise line. For the exact legal boundary you need to commission a boundary survey or examine the title deeds and filed plans.
Yes. MapMyLot uses the full HM Land Registry INSPIRE dataset which covers both England and Wales. Scotland is also covered separately using Registers of Scotland Cadastral Parcel data.
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