Escape to the Country Season 4, Episode 19: Stratford-upon-Avon to Somerset

1

Twickenham to North Oxfordshire

Catherine Gee meets a family living in a Victorian terrace in Twickenham who are tired of the noise from the motorway and the Heathrow flight path. She helps them fulfil their dreams of finding some peace and quiet in north Oxfordshire on a budget of £500,000

45 min

2

Forest Hill to Kent

Kalle Hogh and partner Daniel Friend are looking to trade in their cramped one bedroom flat in London for a cottage in commutable Kent. Having both grown up in the countryside they want to return to their roots. Catherine Gee has a budget of £250,000 to find them a home with a garden and enough space for friends to stay.

45 min

3

Hampstead to Cotswolds

Advertising executive Jules Hinds has had enough of city life. Despite living in one of London's most desirable postcodes, NW3, she wants to swap her two bed Hampstead flat for a chocolate box cottage in the Cotswolds. To achieve her goal she has given Catherine Gee a wide ranging budget - between 300,000 and 500,000 pounds. But will Catherine have to spend all of her funds to find Jules the house of her dreams?

45 min

5

Aylesbury to North Cornwall

John and his daughter Emma are looking for a house in Cornwall to indulge their passion for extreme sports.

45 min

6

Chafford Hundred to Kent

A family try to move away from their estate near the M25 into the Kent countryside, hoping their £300,000 budget can find them a period property with space for a photography dark room. They need to be near London, and want good schools. shops and pubs nearby - a real challenge for expert Catherine Gee

45 min

8

Cardiff to Gwynedd

Catherine Gee helps a bilingual couple move from Cardiff and return to their rural roots in the Welsh valleys and mountains. Rhys works as a fishing officer for the Welsh Tourist Board and is looking to indulge his favourite pastime more often, while Gwyneth is about to give birth to their second child and wants to be settled before the arrival

45 min

10

Nottinghamshire to Lincolnshire

Catherine Gee comes to the rescue of the Smithson family from Nottingham who want to swap their three-bedroom, Thirties home for a property in the Lincolnshire countryside with a large garden on a budget of £300,000

45 min

11

Taunton to Dorset

Tim Fisher and Bea Reitmeier have found love in later life with each other and are now looking to set up their first home together. Luckily, Tim works as a garden designer and Bea as a property developer. But can Catherine Gee find them what they're after, in an increasingly expensive area, with a budget of £500,000.

45 min

14

Sutton to Suffolk

Having lived in London's greenest borough for 11 years, Clare Ladd and her partner David Hackett are ready to swap city life for a B&B venture in the country. They restored their Edwardian house to its former glory and are now looking for a country house, ripe for refurbishment and renovation. Catherine Gee has a budget of 360,000 pounds to find it.

45 min

16

Dulwich to Hampshire

Simon and Sam Clough have just had their first child and woken up to the fact that most of their friends have moved out of London. In a bid to follow them, they're looking for a detached family house in Hampshire, with a budget of up to £700,000.

45 min

17

Leeds to North Yorkshire

Alison Taft and partner Mark Rusten have lived in their five-bedroom Edwardian house for five years. But with two small children and a front garden that leads to a busy road, they are looking to downsize to a smaller country house with a bigger garden.

45 min

18

Port Talbot to North Devon

Catherine Gee meets a family with £700,000 to spend, who want to swap their Port Talbot home with one on the north coast of Devon. Dad Steve runs a diving and marine repairs business in Swansea and plans to commute by boat, while his wife Pippa hopes her individual tastes won't be compromised by the move

45 min

19

Stratford-upon-Avon to Somerset

A couple decide to retire to the country following a cancer scare, and look for a quiet period cottage on a budget of £350,000

45 min

20

Westbury-on-Tryn to Wiltshire

A Bristol-based couple who met while involved in a property sale, and who also own a place in France, hope to sell their home in the UK and buy another in the Wiltshire countryside on a budget of £300,000. Catherine Gee presents

45 min

21

Manchester to Derbyshire

Catherine Gee comes to the aid of a conservationist and a former air hostess who are searching for a two-bedroom cottage in the rural Peak District on a budget of £250,000

45 min

22

Liverpool to the Wash

Catherine Gee helps a 60-year-old woman who has lived in her eight-bedroom Liverpool house since birth to scale-down her work as a complementary therapist and move somewhere quieter, but with a large garden and on a budget of £200,000

45 min

23

Bury to the Wold

A couple who met in a Manchester bar in 2004 and are about to get married hope to swap their homes in Cheadle and Bury for a detached house in the East Riding of Yorkshire

45 min

24

Battersea to North Norfolk

Catherine Gee meets a 75-year-old woman and her daughter who have £300,000 to spend on a four-bedroom house with views of the country or the sea in Norfolk

45 min

25

Torquay to East Anglia

The Haines are looking to swap the tourist hot spot of Torquay for the rural charms of East Anglia. With half a million pounds to find the detached property of their dreams it sounds like a simple job for Catherine Gee. But not when she's also got to find a fully functional annex for the family's grandparents, Pat and Len.

45 min