Searching the Land Register archive
The archive lets you view and download Land Register documents which have been archived. You can see:
- All land register documents previously held in BOPS
- All documents previously held in the ‘Add to BOPS’ folder
- New Advance Notices
- Documents manually added by Registration colleagues
Begin a search
To begin a search click on the ‘Search and view the archive’ link on the homepage.
Enter a Title number, Application number or an Advance Notice number to search the archive. Click ‘Continue’ to search the archive.
Searching by a title number will return a list of applications which have documents archived. Applications without archived documents will not be displayed.
If there is more than one application, there is a ‘Application type filter’ which can be used to filter out the different application types.
Click on the application number to see all the documents associated with the application.
Occasionally a document will not have an application number, such as a Post Registration enquiry.
In this scenario the application number will be ‘Not applicable’. To view the documents, click on the ‘not applicable’ link.
To being a new search click the ‘Search the archive again’ link at the bottom of the page.
View a document
All documents which have been archived will be displayed in date order.
You can see more information about the status of the application in the ‘Applications details’ section.
Some key information about each document is displayed to help colleagues identify the document they are looking for.
- Document type and Document category aim to describe what the document is
- Archived date is the date the document was archived
- Archive location displays which record the document was saved to. The business record is kept for 20 years and the archive record is kept indefinitely.
- Original filename is the name of the document when it was archived
To view the document, click the ‘Actions’ link and choose ‘View’.
The image will be displayed on the screen. You cannot undock the image.
