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ith its vast expanses of countryside and coastline, it’s hard to imagine why anyone on the Gower peninsula would go looking for those things elsewhere, but it is something that Jane and Owain Griffiths contemplated. ‘We were going to move to Pembrokeshire but the house we were buying fell through,’ says Jane. ‘At the time, we were living just up the road from here. We had a lovely house in a popular village, but it all felt very suburban and sensible, and we were after something more rural.’ The

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