In short: a complete title pack is the full set of official HM Land Registry documents for a property — the title register, the title plan, and copies of any deeds the register refers to. HM Land Registry charges £7 per document, so a typical pack costs £21 to £35 depending on how many filed deeds exist. It has nothing to do with the "Lord and Lady" title packs sold as novelty gifts, which cost more and confer no legal title at all.
Search for "complete title pack" and you will get two completely different products on the same page of results. One is a bundle of official property documents that a buyer, owner or conveyancer genuinely needs. The other is a souvenir gift — a certificate, a decorative deed, and a notional square foot of Scottish or English land, sold on the promise that it makes you a Lord or Lady.
They are not related, they are not sold by the same kind of business, and confusing them is expensive. This guide explains exactly what each one is.
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What a real complete title pack contains
When solicitors and HM Land Registry talk about title documents, they mean three specific things.
The title register. The official record of ownership for a registered property. It names the current owner, states whether the title is freehold or leasehold, records the price paid on the last sale (if registered since 2000), lists any mortgage or charge, and sets out the rights, covenants and restrictions that bind the land. This is the document that answers "who owns it and what are they allowed to do with it".
The title plan. An Ordnance Survey extract with the registered extent of the property outlined in red. It shows the general boundaries — not the precise legal line of a fence or hedge, which is a common and costly misunderstanding.
The filed deeds (sometimes called referred or referenced documents). The register often summarises rights and obligations in a sentence and then points to the original deed that created them: a 1962 conveyance, a transfer with covenants written out in full, a deed of easement granting access. If you need to know exactly what a right of way covers, or precisely which covenant binds the land, the register alone will not tell you. The filed deed will.
Together, those three make the "complete" pack. Everything in it is an official copy issued by HM Land Registry — the same document a solicitor would obtain, admissible in court, not a re-typed summary produced by a third party.
What it costs
HM Land Registry sells official copies to anyone. No account, no solicitor, no professional credentials required. Since 9 December 2024 the fee has been £7 per document ordered digitally.
| What you order | HM Land Registry fee | Typical total |
|---|---|---|
| Title register only | £7 | £7 |
| Register + title plan | £14 | £14 |
| Register + plan + 1 filed deed | £21 | £21 |
| Register + plan + 3 filed deeds | £35 | £35 |
Our own Complete Title Pack is priced at cost: the £7 statutory fee plus 50p per document card processing, so £15 for register and plan and £7.50 for each filed deed on top. We make our money on due-diligence reports, not on marking up government documents — and if you would rather order direct from gov.uk, you should, and we say so on the page.
The reason we spell the arithmetic out is that plenty of sites do not. Our audit of ten title-deed resellers found the same £7 document selling for £20 to £40, usually with the words "official" and "Land Registry" arranged to imply the seller is the registry itself.
The other kind of "title pack"
Now the souvenir version.
For roughly £45 to £60, a number of gift companies will sell you a package containing a personalised certificate, an ornamental "deed", and a claim to one square foot of land somewhere in Scotland or England, along with the invitation to call yourself Lord or Lady from now on.
As a novelty gift, that is a matter of taste, and the better sellers are open about what it is. As a legal proposition, here is what you are actually getting.
A square foot of land does not create a lordship. The historic title "Lord of the Manor" is what the law calls an incorporeal hereditament — HM Land Registry's own guidance describes it as "an interest having no physical existence", and notes that "in many cases the title may no longer have any land or rights attached to it". A manorial lordship is a distinct legal thing that exists separately from any particular field. Buying a small piece of ground, in a country where such lordships are already separated from the land, does not conjure one into being.
You cannot register a lordship title anyway. Since 13 October 2003, when the Land Registration Act 2002 came into force, HM Land Registry has not accepted applications for first registration of a lordship title at all. Nothing you buy today can be added to the register as a lordship.
Souvenir plots are a recognised category, and the rules changed. Tiny plots sold for sentimental or commemorative value have a name in land registration practice: souvenir land. Schemes in the 1970s and 80s were formally declared as such, and buyers were excused from registering their purchases. The Land Registration Act 2002 abolished those declaration schemes, and HM Land Registry's guidance is explicit that any transaction with land formerly affected by a scheme "must now be registered". In practice, most souvenir plot buyers never register anything — which means that in the register, the ownership of that square foot generally has not changed at all.
Titles of nobility are not sold. Peerages are granted by the Crown. No gift company can transfer one, and none of the reputable ones claim to.
None of that makes a souvenir pack a scam. It makes it a gift. The problem is only that it shares a name with a document bundle that people buy for entirely serious reasons — a purchase, a boundary dispute, a probate, a right of way — and search engines cheerfully mix the two together.
How to tell which one you are buying
Four questions settle it every time:
- Does it name a title number? A real pack is tied to a specific registered title — a reference like
DT348159. A souvenir pack never has one. - Does the price track the number of documents? Official copies cost £7 each. A price that does not move with the document count is not an at-cost document order.
- Does it mention a certificate, a plaque, or a gift box? HM Land Registry does not issue certificates of lordship, and official copies do not come framed.
- Is the seller explaining, or flattering? Documents are dull. If the sales copy is mostly about how you will feel at restaurant bookings, it is a gift product.
If you want the real thing
You have three sensible routes, and we would rather you knew all of them.
Order direct from HM Land Registry at gov.uk for £7 per document — the cheapest option, and the right one if you are comfortable identifying the title and the filed deeds yourself.
Order from us at cost. Our Complete Title Pack adds 50p per document for card processing, finds the title from an address, a title number, or a plot you point out on a map, tells you how many filed deeds actually exist before you pay, and includes a plain-English summary of what the register says. If it turns out there are no filed deeds, we say so rather than selling you an empty pack. There is a Title Register on its own at £7.50 if that is all you need, and a property records search if you want to look before you order.
Or ask your conveyancer, who will order the same documents as part of the transaction and charge them on.
What you should not do is pay £30 or £40 to a site that has simply bought the search result above the registry's own.