There's no place like home

Picture-perfect cottages in the Home Counties

- Annunciata Elwes

Buckinghamshire, £750,000 This is exactly the sort of character cottage to tempt Londoners out of the big smoke. It sits in the coveted Chiltern Hills village of Turville—filming location for The Vicar of Dibley—and is even called Sleepy Cottage. The principal bedroom, with vaulted ceiling and exposed timber beams, overlooks the village green, church and Cobstone Windmill, which featured in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The sense of deja-vu is enhanced by the village’s further appearance in Midsomer Murders, I Capture the Castle, Marple and Killing Eve, among others; Goodnight Mister Tom was actually filmed at Sleepy Cottage.