How Keira and Renee Will Help to Sellour Country Retreats ; Star-Studded Movies Set in West Wales and the Lake District May Send the Already Buoyant Markets Through the Stratosphere

Mail on Sunday › January 23, 2007

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Like Pavlov's dogs drooling at the dinner bell, movies set in two idyllic corners of Britain are stirring property buyers' appetites. Neither the Lake District nor West Wales can be described as unknown sleepy hideaways, but the former is already feeling the effects of Miss Potter, the Beatrix Potter biopic starring Renee Zellweger.

Meanwhile, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire are set to bask in the luminous glow of beautiful film star Keira Knightley.

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How Keira and Renee Will Help to Sellour Country Retreats ; Star-Studded Movies Set in West Wales and the Lake District May Send the Already Buoyant Markets Through the Stratosphere

In the spring, filming starts on the story of the priapic poet and boozer Dylan Thomas, who moved to Laugharne in the early Forties to a house bought for him by the eminent historian AJP Taylor, who wanted him away from Oxford and, more specifically, his wife's be...

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