The first piece of software that takes medieval agricultural law seriously enough to automate it
TithebarnSync maps historical chancel repair liabilities, tithe rentcharges, and manorial rights directly onto current Land Registry title numbers so conveyancers stop getting blindsided at completion. It ingests raw tithe apportionment records going back to 1836, cross-references them against live HMLR data, and fires automated alerts into your case management system before your client unknowingly buys a farmhouse with a £40,000 medieval church roof obligation attached to it. This problem has existed for centuries. The software solution has existed since I shipped this.
- Full tithe apportionment record ingestion from 1836 onwards, parsed and normalised against current OS grid references
- Cross-references over 2.3 million historic field parcel identifiers against live HMLR title register data
- Automated chancel repair liability alerts push directly into your case management system before exchange
- Manorial rights and copyhold tenure detection, including extinguished but potentially revivable claims
- Tithe rentcharge burden calculation with inflation-adjusted modern equivalents because someone had to do it
Osprey Approach, Clio, LEAP Legal Software, HM Land Registry Business Gateway API, TitlesPlus, NeuraCase, LawWare, National Archives Discovery API, MapVault, Geodesic Title Intelligence, Quill Pinpoint, ParcelSync Pro
TithebarnSync runs as a set of decoupled microservices behind a private API gateway, with each historical record source handled by its own ingestion worker so a bad batch from one archive never poisons the rest of the pipeline. The canonical title-to-liability mapping is stored in MongoDB because the document structure of tithe apportionment schedules is genuinely irregular and anyone who tells you to use a relational schema for this has not read a tithe apportionment schedule. A Redis layer handles long-term caching of resolved title lookups, keeping repeat conveyancer queries fast without hammering the HMLR Business Gateway rate limits. The alert dispatch layer is fully stateless and can be scaled horizontally, though in practice one node handles the current load without breaking a sweat.
🟢 Production. Actively maintained.
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