About 400 people live in the village of West Heslerton, near Scarborough, which was owned by an Oxford-educated academic until her death in 2010 Press AssociationAn entire Yorkshire village where time is said to have stood still for 50 years has been sold. West Heslerton, near Scarborough, has a population of 400 and includes 43 houses, a pub, a service station and a 21-bedroom mansion. The Yorkshire village, which has been owned by the Dawnay family for generations, was put on the market last year for £20 million and has finally been bought by Albanwise, a farming and property investment company based in Norfolk. Its former owner, Eve Dawnay, an Oxford-educated academic with a passion for bucolic simplicity, inherited the village from her father in the 1960s and wanted the village to go to the “kindest bidder”. She died in 2010 and it was put up for sale to be…

Source: The Times April 27, 2017 11:03 UTC