while the tabloid media loves to strike up hatred towards "sqwatters" of the lower class variety, in the UK, the majority of "enquiries about the use of the Limitation Act come from middle class owner occupiers who have surreptitiously extended their gardens onto derelict land or into a deceased neighbour’s field." [source - http://www.monbiot.com/archives/1996/07/18/theft-is-property/ ]