markzoom wrote:
I would have thought that obstruction of a main gas cock and meter
would be highly relevant.
It is totally irrelevant to the question of what rights you may have over
the road. Whether you have rights over the road, which you seem to be unable
to prove, might be relevant to whether that is the proper place to have a
gas meter and gas cock though.
It's been there ever since the house had gas (a long time) so I would
have thought that I gained adverse right of access to it? It's also a
safety issue that access to it remains clear.

There is no 'adverse right of access' because you already *have* a right
of access along that lane. There is no adverse possession because you
have not taken exclusive possession of the land, you have simply
overhung it.

Owain