America doesn't have the monopoly on beautiful mansions. In fact, England has been doing them for longer than anywhere else. This, for example, is the beautiful countryside home of Coldplay's Chris Martin. It was once shared with Gwyneth Paltrow during their ten-year marriage, and Martin has stayed living there after their split. It comes with good celebrity provenance, too - the couple bought it for $14m from actress Kate Winslet somewhere around 2007.
It's common for the rich and famous in England to live in residences like this, deep within woodland, as it keeps them away from the glare of paparazzi cameras and intrusive tabloid newspapers. They even sometimes group together to form mini celebrity villages. Martin, for example, can count Hugh Grant and Madonna among his neighbors. We wonder who's in charge of the neighborhood watch scheme?