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London leavers: 'We left renting in Leyton for a £600,000 Victorian semi in Bakewell'

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At the weekend Nicole Berryman and her family took a long, beautiful, walk amidst some of the UK's most beautiful scenery before heading to Bakewell – the market town which Jane Austen used as inspiration for Lambton in Pride and Prejudice – for a leisurely lunch.

“It was the kind of thing that people go on

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