Title deeds- researching house history- any conveyancing experts?

[Glitterbiscuits]

I'm trying to research the history of my house.
When we paid off the mortgage I was told there were no deeds/documents to be returned to us.

I was too busy then to think about it.
A little research tells me
I need the property title and it will say 'deeds filed' if the Land Registry has anything.

I have paid my £3 and there is nothing mentioned. Not even the price we paid for it ( over 20 years ago). Surely somewhere has the details of the previous owners etc?

Am I looking in the wrong place?
Thanks for any advice!

Historical copies of the title registers can be obtained - not sure if this is something the general public can do, or just lawyers.

Is there something specific you want to know?

Mortgage Landers used to hold the deeds, which would include all the old and interesting historical documents you are thinking of. The Land Registry don't retain copies of documents unless they are relevant to the title - eg a document which contains a right of way or a plan.
Some years ago ( about 10?more? ), the mortgage companies decided that they didn't want to store deeds any more, and so they sent them to the owners of the property at the time. So I have a bundle of documents about 6 inches high relating to my house since it was built in 1904 sent to by my lender some years back. The documents I have include interesting snippets that aren't on the registered title, eg that Mrs X was a widow, and I can see that she rented at first and then bought. The title wasn't registered when the house was first built, but these days almost all land is now registered .
You could go back to your solicitors and ask if they have any paperwork that might be of interest, or if they know where the deeds are/were, but you may need to go back to earlier owners, if you can trace them.
The local authority has certain information which they would usually give in a reply to a local search, and you might be able to inspect the planning register.
Your local historical society may be able to help, and I imagine you could look at old Census records if you can search by address rather than by person.
It's also worth asking older neighbours what they know.

Our mortgage company ( Santander) said they had nothing.
I'm not looking for anything special but it would be nice to find anything at all.
It's an old rural house that has been massively altered by all the previous owners.
The Land Registry Title Register gives me the title number, the current owner ( me!) and price last sold for - which said no price recorded.

It says no covenants or easements

And that's it!

No mention of 'deeds filed' or anything

You'll have to go down other routes then.
It's worth bearing in mind that with older properties, the deeds of neighbours or the larger estate might be helpful, as properties would originally have been sold off from a larger land holding.
Do you know who any of the previous owners were?

Go back to land registry and request a copy of the deeds. This is different to the register www.gov.uk/get-information-about-property-and-land/copies-of-deeds

@Seemslikeaniceday that's the issue.
I read that if the Land Registry has a scanned copy of the Deds it would say on the title register 'on file'

My title says nothing

@Glitterbiscuits have you tried Kelly's Directory (main library will usually have them), Parish records, Census records? If you can get a bit of information from one source it will often open up other avenues to research - good luck!

Try the tax records from 1929 at the British Library. Available online; census online at ancestry or find my past websites; old electoral registers & rates records- local library will have them or know where they’re deposited.