I'm currently ploughing through Land Tax records for the late 18th century in a small Gloucestershire village. My 4th great grandfather is named in a few as an occupier. It turns out that you can (with some effort) learn a lot from these records. The total value of the land for a parish was set in 1698 and rarely or never changed until 1832. So a piece of land with a particular value can often be traced through the years with changes of ownership and occupation.

I've seen plots of land merge and separate out again, and ownership changes that correlate nicely with death records, wills etc. So the Land tax records can be a very helpful cross-check for deaths if your ancestors owned any land.

In my case, I've determined who owned the plot of land my 4GGF lived on, when that man died, and when his widow died. After that, it seems to have been rolled into the Manor's ownership, which was later "sold off in small lots". Sadly, I haven't been able to work out which plot it was, nor how long my 4GGF occupied it, as each record has one listed occupant, and the merged entry lists the Lord of the Manor's niece's husband who would have been the "primary" occupant there.

@AndyW Excellent work!

I wasn't able to drop in on the chat during the weekend but I think "Land and Property Records" is a very interesting one. As a followup to one of my 4 questions so far tagged land (see genealogy.stackexchange.com/…) which come from four different countries I am hoping one day to "follow the money" for the Hitchcox land in Staffordshire and then near Adelaide.

I know they bought a sizable farm at Wheaton Aston in about 1830 using money that was inherited from an aunt (have not worked out which aunt yet), and then in 1853 they emigrated to Australia and sold that land. I've always assumed that they used the money to buy vineyards at Fullarton near Adelaide where they farmed for at least another 20-30 years but so far I have not found that land purchase nor do I know when they sold it.