Alistair Appleton is in Lincolnshire helping a couple of retired expats, with a budget of £300,000, return from France and find a rural retreat on home soil. While in the county, Alistair meets a local conservationist with an entrepreneurial approach to safeguarding the area's ancient woodland.

Denise Nurse tackles a sizeable house hunt in the Cotswolds, with a budget of £1.5 million. Away from the search, Denise gets the modern spin on the area's wool heritage with a local alpaca farmer and learns how to hand weave their exotic fibre by hand.