Buying land off neighbour, where to set new boundary?

[CraigVmax]

Hi all,

Ph wisdom needed. I'm hopefully buying a small strip of land next to my garden and having a brainfart!

In order to
A) be correct

But more importantly, B) not do myself out of any ground!

Where should I measure the new boundary from? Outer edge of old fence, inner edge?

All help appreciated

[Sam_68]

Centreline.

[DavidY]

Use the centre of the road as a datum and work everything out from there

[CraigVmax]

I wish matey, I live on an island and it's a bit onerous with boundaries and stuff

[DavidY]

Craig

I would contact a good surveyor (used to defining boundaries, when I was in Surrey I use a guy in Basingstoke but that was 15 years ago and I have no record of his name) who will be able to identify valid datum points and undertake the correct measurements.