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In the summer of 1940, as invasion threatened, he was appointed drama and film critic of the weekly magazine Time and Tide and the couple relocated to a mansion flat in Chagford Street NW1.
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Ed grew up in Chagford and so although the route from his field to our destination is only a mile, we have to stop for half a dozen conversations and for Samson to have his nose repeatedly petted.
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But in Devon, as elsewhere, smallholdings are now so expensive they're bought by downsizing bankers rather than young would-be farmers Chagford even boasts its own celebrity residents: Jennifer Saunders and Adrian Edmondson and what this means is that the likes of Ed and his classmates are struggling to find a way to stay in the place they grew up in.
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Ed Hamer, and horse Samson, photographed for Observer Food Monthly in Chagford, Devon, 11 July 2011.
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As well as the market garden in Chagford, which he set up with his wife Yssy, and Chinnie, he's also the co-editor of the Land, "An Occasional Magazine About Land Rights" founded by the veteran land campaigner Simon Fairlie.
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Two years ago, a thinktank, the New Economics Foundation came to Chagford and organised a meeting with farmers and residents and the landless young like Ed, and "one of the things that came out of this was that people wanted locally grown produce so I put my hand up and took it on," says Ed.
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Chagford is about as lovely a village as you could ever hope to find.
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Hamer grew up in Chagford "and I wanted to remain in the area but there's no way I could afford to buy here".
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As well as Chagford, Ed has customers in nearby Lustleigh and Drewsteignton.
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Richard Thorn was Parish Clerk of Chagford from 1800 to the end of his life, and was succeeded by his son, the village saddler and postmaster.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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