LOCKDOWN has apparently led to a spike of interest in country life with many city dwellers looking to relocate to the countryside.
Lavenham, in the Babergh district of Suffolk, is noted for its Guildhall, Little Hall, 15th Century church and half-timbered medieval cottages.
With a population of about 2,000 it has been listed in the top 20 ‘Most Instagrammable Villages in the UK’.
Lavenham was 15th in the table. To identify which areas were home to the most picture-perfect villages, Bankrate took to Instagram and assessed the number of hashtags for 100 rural locations dotted around the UK.
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Friends
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