An entire village fear they could be evicted from their homes after their estate went up for sale for nearly £16 million. Residents living in a 1,200-acre estate are fighting to stay in the houses some of them have lived in their whole lives.
For the second time, a fierce battle is ongoing at Trevalga, a tiny hamlet and estate in Cornwall, leaving at least 12 households fearing they will lose their homes. The tenanted estate was placed in a will trust more than 60 years ago when Gerald Curgenven, the owner of the estate until his death in 1959, left the hamlet to Marlborough College in a bid to preserve it for the future.
But after an unsuccessful attempt to sell the estate, which is nestled between Tintagel and Boscastle, in 2010, residents once again had their worlds turned upside down in June, when they all received a letter telling them the hamlet would be put on the market with a guide price of £15,750,000, CornwallLive reports.
