If I had to spend the rest of my life living underground, I would do it in this four-bedroom house for sale in the Peak District

The idea of living underground has not traditionally been an attractive one. However, a cursory glance at the frontpage of a newspaper these days has certainly made it seem more appealing than it used to be. Not only may it provide some shelter from the aggressive machinations of various worldwide dictators, but living in a hole in the ground is also probably quite energy efficient.

I had always assumed living underground would involve some kind of nuclear missile silo, much like the Fallout videogames or whatever it is the American prepping community seem to be up to. I had not imagined a place like Underhill near Holmfirth, because it is not a nuclear-missile silo but rather a very lovely family home, and also because I didn’t think we did that kind of thing in the UK. But then again we