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A HOME FOR ALL SEASONS

Standing in the grounds of Sally Kellard’s beautiful 17th-century home is a magnificent sessile oak tree measuring 36.5 feet wide. In its 1,000-year lifetime, it has seen families come and go from the 400-year-old farmhouse that stands in its shadow, but few will have brought the old, listed house to life like Sally and Robin Kellard.

Since moving their successful B&B business lock stock and barrel from Herefordshire back to their home town of Ludlow in the summer of 2018, they have transformed the

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