Bamber's statement was released by those campaigning to overturn his conviction for killing five members of his family at a farmhouse in Essex in 1985.
These days, you're likely to get flatscreen TVs and chocolate truffles along with the uninterrupted views and peaceful idyll which a farmhouse location traditionally affords.
Other options include a farmhouse with swimming pool in Poitou-Charentes (sleeps four, from £333 a month); a gite with a tower in Provence (sleeps five, from £393 a month); or a 19th-century wine lodge in the Pyrenees (sleeps two, from £428 a month).
As with many of the tracks across the barene, this one goes nowhere, but fortunately the dead end is also the site of Agriturismo La Barena, an ancient redbrick farmhouse overlooking the lagoon, with six guest rooms.
The easiest way to learn a language is to spend some time abroad; and if the trip comes with the chance to explore the countryside, experience local festivals and stay in an elegant farmhouse, so much the better.
Mylène Gilles has beautifully renovated a stone Normandy farmhouse, with four rooms, and in the garden is what she calls her "gypsy caravan", but is more like a roomy fisherman's cabin.
In the end, Softley chose an isolated farmhouse an hour from the coast and used a beach near Marseille for his bathing scenes.
Where to eat Al Lago Delle Rose, a rustic farmhouse restaurant near Arquà Petrarca, is a great place to try Veneto specialities, such as asparagus risotto, and pancetta and wild boar lasagne (agriturismoallagodellerose.it).it
Home: Stay on a Sussex vineyard A Sussex vineyard has restored its 19th-century farmhouse to offer stylish and great-value B&B accommodation on the South Downs.
Almost 7o years later the Great Train Robbers made the same mistake: they wiped down all the surfaces as they left their Buckinghamshire farmhouse hideout, but forgot the bottles and cans they were throwing out.
Over homemade cake in his grey stone farmhouse at the head of Coverdale in the Yorkshire Dales, Mawle explained how his expanding grouse shoot not only created jobs but funded a much wider conservation effort.
