harry wrote:
The bit between your gate and the road is the verge
and not yours.

You can't use rules of thumb like that. He could well own
everything to the centre of the road, and edge of the the
adopted highway could be anywhere between the edge of the
tarmac and the garden wall, or anywhere else.

The local highways authority doesn't have to own the land
that its adopted highways travel over, and the width of
the adopted highway is not automatically garden-wall-to-
garden-wall.

jgh