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Access arrangements like that should be in the deeds of both properties.
It's a little different but my parents back onto a cricket club. They had had access theough their back gate, down the edge of the cricket pitch and out onto a nearby road for 30+ years until the cricket club added a locked gate at the road end. A couple of letters and a bit of paperwork and my parents now have legal right of way along that path, it is written into the deeds of both and whoever buys my parents house gets the access too.
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Rights and easements are a common part of land registry titles.
In our Mews we have both rights over land not owned by us, in order to get into the mews in the first place, and we have easements which mean we have to grant access to the other garage and house owners/renters so they can access their properties.
It's not that straightforward sometimes, and a good solicitor can uncover some fun stuff.
We own the mews on a separate title and formed a company to do so in order that we could grant rights and parts of the property from the mews to our house title, to make any future sale easier. It turned out that some of those rights and easements were not written correctly and should have failed to pass down to subsequent owners, only nobody noticed. It also transpired that we had no legal right of access from our courtyard to a private road next to it, despite a gate having been there since the 1850s. A cheap indemnity policy was all that was required to secure that right in perpetuity, though I am not sure what it does if we need to claim.All this stemmed from a huge property with many houses and stables being split up over many years into separate titles. Old houses can be fun.
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Now the neighbours have been there for 28 years, and they (very kindly) laid out the path and box-hedges that delineate the edge of the path, and are unequivocal about the owner of the house that I'm looking at being able to pass across their land to get to the land associated with the house.
But. If we fell out...
I don't know whether 200 years of using that access has any weight, or whether this is the sort of situation that would buy a Brommers analogue a new RS6, if there was an epochal falling out.