I was distraught to leave

RETIRED Nicholas Levison and his wife Fosca owned Sheepcotts, in Great Missenden for 43 years. The couple sold the five-bedroom home to HS2 for £2.75million in June 2015.

Mrs Levison said: ‘As you might expect, I was absolutely distraught to leave because it is such a beautiful part of the country and we had made it our home.

‘Then to find out that they’re not even building the HS2 route where our home was is outrageous.’