Helen Diaper, 76, and her husband Terry, 76, bought the rural hamlet of Lac De Maison in Poitou-Charentes, south-west France

Helen Diaper, 76, and her husband Terry, 76, bought the rural hamlet of Lac De Maison in Poitou-Charentes, south-west France

The small village consists of six 400-year-old houses, two barns and three-acres of land and came with a price tag of £450,000.