When we think of the Cotswolds, many of us imagine chocolate-box cottages built from honeyed limestone.

Vanessa Price was born and raised in such a home, and for 17 years she and husband Steve lived in a limestone cottage in Stroud, a home they had never imagined leaving.

However, when they spotted a property for sale in nearby Whiteway, they decided it was time for a change.

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Architecturally and socially, Whiteway is not a typical Cotswolds village. Formed in 1898 under Tolstoyan principles, the Whiteway Colony was a co-operative land scheme, originally inhabited by a small group of people who embraced self-sufficient living.

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