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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Ruth Bloomfield

London leavers: 'We swapped paying £1,000 a month London rent for renovating a £170k period home in Ludlow'

When she was living in London and working in the arts Anabelle de Gersigny had resigned herself to never owning a home of her own.

A 140-mile move north west, to the market town of Ludlow, has enabled Anabelle and her partner Matt Wade to not only buy a family house but establish a burgeoning business empire bringing ethically sourced coffee and contemporary culture to Shropshire.

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