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SENSE OF PLACE

Location, location, location’ is every estate agent’s mantra. Jane and Peter Gretton took this to heart when they first saw an undistinguished house high up on the edge of the Chilterns, in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. ‘We knew we’d found our ideal place but not our dream home,’ says Jane. So

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