British couple who couldn't get on the UK property ladder and were living in a caravan buy an entire French VILLAGE for €14,000 Paul Mappley and Yip Ward, both 47, told Channel 4's first episode of Help! We Bought a Village, they purchased the historic hamlet of La Busliere, Normandy in April 2021, and want to turn the properties into holiday lets with a glamping site. The village consists of six cottages, two barns and a paddock plus a two-storey workshop, cider press and communal bread oven, but has no electricity and the properties are covered in thick vegetation.
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