Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
Did you know that if you own your house, you own the land it is built on, the structure, and the sky directly above it, but not the ground beneath - so if you strike oil in your back garden, it doesn't belong to you, but the crown.

I read that on the internet so it must be true.
If we owned the ground beneath I could theoretically patrol my section of the Northern Line with a shotgun shouting "get orf moi land!" at passing trains.