What a busy year 2025 has been! In this newsletter, you’ll hear from our Committee Chairs about what has been happening across the Society, as well as their plans for the future. I hope you find this as exciting and inspiring as I do.   The Society continues to grow, but to build on this momentum we need greater support from our volunteers. We must strengthen our impact beyond our immediate community, establishing SoLR as the leading voice for the industry and the go-to autho

April 2025 This month we share updates from our Standards & Ethics, Carers and Community Sub-Committees, our upcoming events and how to...

March 2025 2025 Plans   The SoLR Committee, comprising the chairs of our sub-committees and our board, kicked off the year by setting...

Our summer update, includes the ticket release for the first ever land referencing conference, and updates from across our committees....

From the most remote island or highland estate to a city centre tenement flat, Scotland can be a challenge when it comes to finding out...

Welcome to our SoLR update for April 2024. 33 of our members are now actively collaborating to deliver SoLR's objectives as members of...

Preparing for a conference Following SoLR’s first Industry workshop in June 2023, the Professional Engagement Sub-Committee was...

Our February update includes an opportunity to nominate for a prestigious award and updates from your Standards & Ethics, Professional...

I always tell my clients that WSP, being a multi-disciplinary consultancy, can provide pretty much all their needs to help them with...

A ‘hereditament’ is a word that means something that is capable of being inherited and, in land referencers’ more technical parlance, a...

Last week we looked at some places that have moved. Just as intriguing are places that don’t exist. You might recall in Armchair land...

Last time we looked at markers on the ground as well as the possible re-measurement and mapping of OS boundaries. This reminded me of a...

Last time we considered the history of the OS and how it all started with a baseline across Hounslow Heath that permitted, by means of...

In this article we shall consider the origins of Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency for Great Britain (so excluding N Ireland...

This time and next I am going to examine the two main institutional data providers used in land referencing. In this article I’ll...

Last time I described how the history of promoting railways through Parliament is also the history of the modern land referencing...

Famously much of England was subject to a survey commissioned in 1085 by William I to ascertain the value of the lands he acquired by...

In the last edition I shared an image of a bridge over the Thames with houseboats moored under it. And, to illustrate how complicated...

Last time I asked if the ceremonial Isle of Wight becomes larger than the historic country of Rutland at every low tide. The answer is...

In Armchair land referencing #3 we discussed the significance and some quirks of parishes administrative areas, and referred to the City...