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Lured to Lincolnshire

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IF Lincolnshire was seeking a poster girl, the newly crowned European eventing champion Ros Canter fits the bill. Each time the world number one brings back her haul of medals or this year’s Badminton trophy, the spotlight is thrown on this sometimes-forgotten comer of eastern England, a place that can be wrongly shunned as flat, bleak and out on a limb.

Here is the home of a champion, the place where Ros spent her early days in the saddle with the South Wold Hunt North branch of the Pony Club and now exercises her equine stars on the rolling Lincolnshire Wolds, near her family farm outside the Georgian market town of Louth.

But those savvy enough with their purse strings have long known not to overlook this county in their quest to buy an equestrian set-up of their own. As Rosie Chetwynd-Talbot at Louth-based agent Masons & Partners says, you can simply get more for your money here.

“The biggest pull

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