Louise Donnelly had wanted to live at Hey Top ever since she was a schoolgirl. Growing up in nearby Mossley she was fascinated by the rugged row of old stone terraces standing in splendid isolation above Dovestones Reservoir.
"When I was a kid we'd do a sponsored walk with school past here and think 'I'd love to live there', but never thought I would," she says. But last March her dream came true.
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