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£148m EuroMillions winner Adrian Bayford’s farm lies deserted as he struggles to sell it nine months after revealing plans to emigrate
EUROMILLIONS winner Adrian Bayford's £6.5million farm is lying deserted after he put it on the market.
Bayford, 48, scooped a £148m jackpot in 2012 which he claims left him miserable, so much so that he is moving to Australia for a new life.
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His rural estate Horseheath Lodge, in Linton, Cambridgeshire, which included cottages and a farm, is now lying deserted after it failed to sell.
The former postman purchased Highland cattle, horses, hens and sheep, expensive farming machinery and also employed a team of local people to turn it into a working farm.
But gradually the equipment and animals have been sold off and now the farm is derelict with no sign of life.
Once where the farm was bustling with animals and farmhands, there’s now just an old caravan sat in the yard, alongside empty stables, paddocks, sheep pens and horse ring.
Bayford still has an enviable fleet of expensive cars on the driveway of his secluded property away from the farm area.
Drone video of the Grade II mansion in the Cambridgeshire countryside of lottery winner Adrian Bayford
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For the past seven months, the estate agents Strutt and Parker have been trying to sell the estate without any success and the listing isn’t available online.
Last year the Grade II listed site was host to the 14th annual Cambridge Rock Festival after the millionaire saved it from being cancelled.
In 2016 his mansion was was raided in a £100,000 burglary just weeks before he was dumped by his fiancee.
Cops were called after his ex Sam Burbidge’s engagement ring was pilfered during the December break in.
Other jewellery and luxury watches were also taken along with £8,000 in cash.
Bayford now lives in a £8.5million house in Haverhill, Suffolk,
Earlier this year it was revealed that Bayford is unhappy with his fortune; he has fallen out with friends and piled on weight as he sits alone in his vast mansion.
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The winning Euromillions ticket made him the 516th richest person in Britain, with a fortune to rival Eric Clapton and Sir Tom Jones.
But now he has taken to scoffing up to seven £1.50 pasties a day after having them delivered from a firm in Cornwall — because they remind him of his childhood spent in the town of St Just.
Bayford claims strangers taunt him or goad him about how little he gives to local good causes.
Just 15 months after his jackpot win, wife Gillian, 46, divorced him. She said their eight-year marriage had broken down “irretrievably”, and moved to Scotland with their two kids.
Since then, he has been dumped three times, leaving his ego bruised and his bank balance dented.
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One of his lovers, stable girl Samantha Burbidge, 31, rejected his proposal to return to her penniless ex-boyfriend - with nearly £500,000 worth of gifts that Adrian lavished on her.
There was also Marta Jarosz, 35, a former sausage factory worker, who received a £34,000 top-of-the-range Volvo V40 hatchback before breaking up with him.
Then came Lisa Kemp, a 40-year-old waitress who broke his heart when she dumped him while they were on holiday last summer.
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148.6m EuroMillions jackpot winners Adrian and Gillian Bayford speak of their joy
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