It's a New Chapter for Farm That Inspired a Best-Seller

Evening Post (Bristol, UK) › July 23, 2009

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ANYONE who's ever read Dick King-Smith's classic The Sheep-Pig, will have fallen in love with the idyllic setting brought to life by the Bitton-born author.

But the farmyard tale of talking animals - which was adapted into Hollywood movie Babe - wasn't entirely the creation of the farmer- turnedauthor's imagination.

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It's a New Chapter for Farm That Inspired a Best-Seller

The writer, who once said he would "probably die immediately if he had to live in a town", was inspired by the grand Boyd Farm, tucked away in Golden Valley, near the shad...

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