<Li> Graham Farrant, Chief Land Registrar and Chief Executive </Li> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.gov.uk/government/organisations/land-registry </Td> </Tr> <P> Her Majesty's Land Registry is a non-ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom, created in 1862 to register the ownership of land and property in England and Wales . It reports to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy </P> <P> The equivalent office in Scotland is the Registers of Scotland . Land and Property Services maintain records for Northern Ireland . </P>

When were properties first registered with the land registry