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« on: Thursday 25 October 18 17:27 BST (UK) »
Thank you to everyone who has posted a comment. I agree it seems unlikely. In my village in the Midlands, the coal mine went under the river and the Norman church. It just seems an unlikely thing for my father to have made up. The disputed land was in Luddington on the old river Don on the Yorks/Lincs border. Dad even said that it went to the House of Lords (maybe because of Earl Fitzwilliam?). I guess it would have been around 1900, but I haven't tried the newspaper archives because it may have been anytime between, say 1890 and 1930.