The Old Rectory in the village of Saintbury, not far from Chipping Campden, is the Gloucestershire idyll of so many of our dreams.
In his book Wold Without End (1932), the prolific rural author and journalist, H. J. Massingham, who lived at Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, wrote memorably of the neighbouring small village of Saintbury. ‘Almost every house in Saintbury is separated from its neighbour by twists in the hillside,’ he said.
‘This meant orchards…