![]() ![]() Three years on, it has been cleared, relined with clay and is full of water (and newts and frogs). The irrigation lake, essential to our plans for replanting, had disappeared to a muddy puddle amongst a tangle of trees: very 18th- century-picturesque but no practical use. Many a long hot day has been spent clearing overgrown tracks across the land and reclaiming the garden and vegetable plot. We demolished a jumble of outbuildings that stood between the main farmhouse and its view. We repaired the roof of the main farmhouse and made it habitable, pending its eventual restoration as and when funds allow. We have just completed the first phase of what will be a lengthy process of restoration and bringing the land slowly back into production. ![]() The land was so overgrown it had become all but impassable. The roof of the main farmhouse leaked in more places than we had buckets. The apple orchards had been long neglected and had ceased to produce. When we bought the property in 2003 both the land and the buildings were in need of a great deal of work.
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