The precise history of Katherine Marland’s Welsh home, set beside a narrow winding track in a wood-fringed Monmouthshire hamlet, is unknown. What Katherine, an antiques dealer, call tell you is that the stone buildings originally began as turf-and-mud huts, built by smallholders working in the forest. Taking advantage of squatters’ rights, which existed between the 17th and t19th centuries, their descendants went on to build the low cottages that survive today.
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