It might be due to the popularity of Clarkson’s Farm, an increased concern for food provenance or the desire to have a lifestyle overhaul, but interest in smallholdings is on the rise.

Here are five of the most intriguing options on the market at the moment.

Powys — £1.1 million

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Baron Tomas Stael von Holstein left London, where he was studying Buddhism, to buy this 23-acre smallholding in the Cambrian Mountains. Over the past decade, he has transformed Llethrau Farm (also pictured at the top of the page) into a retreat in an enchanting mixed-broadleaf woodland setting, which lends itself to ‘team-building days, retreats or family gatherings’.

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There is a two-bedroom farmhouse, two converted barns, three shepherd’s huts, o

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