Couple searching for dream home tour Shropshire in Escape to the Country

The county featured on BBC One's Escape to the Country with the episode named 'Welsh Borders'.

The episode part of season 24 of the programme featured a couple in their late 20s from the West Midlands who were searching for their dream home with a budget of £400,000. They said they wanted a character property with two bedrooms and two bathrooms, and a renovation project with two acres of land for wildlife.

Presenter Sonali Shah guided 27-year-old Rosie, who lives in a van she calls Betty that she converted herself during lockdown, and her 28-year-old partner Phil, around the region who were looking for a renovation project, and the episode featured properties set amongst Shropshire's stunning landscapes near the region's charming villages.

The house hunters were first shown around a Grade II listed farmhouse at Began, near Kerry in Mid Wales, before going to be taken around Much Wenlock.

From there it was a short journey to the next home, a Georgian bungalow in Bodbury, right next to the Long Mynd in the Shropshire Hills that featured extraordinary access to the area of outstanding natural beauty.

The next home was one that is thought to have once been a chapel at Newton on the Hill, north of Shrewsbury, before the mystery property turned out to be at Llanrhaeadr in Powys, made up of several barns with planning permission to make a five-bedroom home.

However, the couple ended up purchasing a property over the Shropshire borders in Powys, but the season 24 episode did not showcase the two-bedroom, 1960's property that they bought.

The BBC's description of the episode says: "With a budget of £400,000, an ambitious young couple from the West Midlands have the help of Sonali Shah to find a renovation project and a couple of acres of land in the Welsh Borders."

The episode is available to watch on BBC iPlayer for 29 days.