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Living In The House On The Motorway: What's It Really Like?

Living In The House On The Motorway: What's It Really Like?

Granddaughter of farmer who owns the home on the M62 has revealed all.

Mel Ramsay

Mel Ramsay

Recently, we found out that the reason why there's a house in the middle of the M62, and now we get to know exactly what it's like to live there.

A documentary from 1983 was uploaded online which revealed that the real reason Stott Hall Farm is slap-bang in the middle of the motorway was because a geological fault beneath it would have been a massive ball ache to sort out.

Not because the farmer there was too stubborn to sell.

Ken Wild's granddaughter, Kimberley Pollard, spoke to The Huddersfield Daily Examiner. She said: "The story is my granddad was a stubborn old Yorkshireman who refused to move - but he's actually from Lancashire.

"He had a broad Yorkshire accent from living up here for so long."

Regarding the rumours about his stubborn nature, she was quick to dispel them. She said: "He was far too subdued for that - and he wouldn't have had a choice in the matter because the farm was rented from Yorkshire Water."

But is it not loud and crowded?!

"It was just a normal life for me. I was more interested in looking after the baby lambs.

"I used to stay in a big bedroom on the westbound carriageway side. It had a four poster bed - you could get lost in it. There was triple glazing which kept out lots of noise.

"You'd sometimes wake up if someone beeped their car horn in the middle of the night, but the sound of the motorway used to send me to sleep."

Once, they even got a letter from a little girl who'd addressed it to 'the house in the middle of the motorway'. Unbelievably, the postman delivered it. She explained: "It said, 'I have seen you on my way home and I have always wondered who lives there.' I think my granddad wrote back - and even invited her and her family to come up and stroke the lambs."

"If people broke down they'd climb over the fence from the hard shoulder - but this was when the motorway was a bit quieter!

"Quite a few people used to come in and have a cup of tea and phone the break down people."

So there you have it. Thanks to triple glazing and lambs, it actually sounds like an alright place to live. Who'd have thought it?!

Words by Mel Ramsay

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Topics: UK News, Interesting, Motorway, House

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