{"id":117732,"date":"2020-07-10T18:37:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T11:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/this-isnt-really-somerset-how-the-rich-took-over-bruton\/"},"modified":"2020-07-10T19:04:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T12:04:20","slug":"this-isnt-really-somerset-how-the-rich-took-over-bruton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/this-isnt-really-somerset-how-the-rich-took-over-bruton\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This isn\u2019t really Somerset\u2019: how the rich took over Bruton"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nGeorge Osborne is the latest to move to a town home to actors, art dealers and internet billionaires\u201cThis isn\u2019t really Somerset,\u201d Jock Mendoza-Wilson says as he looks through an estate agents window on the High Street of the small town of Bruton, a few miles away from the site of Glastonbury festival in Somerset. \u201cThis is a microcosm of the poshest parts of London transported to one of the most beautiful parts of the country.\u201dThe town, which dates to at least the Domesday Book of 1086, is back in focus this week as George Osborne, the former chancellor and editor-in-chief of the Evening Standard, has become the latest celebrity to move in, buying a five-bedroom Grade II-listed Georgian pile for \u00a31.6m. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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