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When Annabelle Smyth’s future husband Rob introduced her to the place he’d spent his childhood – an idyllic rural pocket between Exmoor and the Quantock Hills – it was love at first sight. ‘It was peaceful and unspoilt, like going back in time,’ she reflects. ‘I loved the beautiful villages tucked away down country lanes, the old farms and the incredible landscape. We knew if we could ever have a little country bolthole, this was where it would be.’
Years passed