Helen & Neil Matthews

Helen and Neil Matthews have lived in Prestwood, Buckinghamshire since 1991.

Helen, who was born and bred in the Chilterns, co-founded a local conservation group and is a member of the Chiltern Society’s Save our Pubs working group. Her book on the illegitimate children of medieval English gentry will be published in 2019. By day she is a university administrator.

Neil, who is a marketer, travel writer and historian, has previously published two books: Journeys from Wimbledon Common, about the places from which the Wombles took their names, and Victorians and Edwardians Abroad: The Beginning of the Modern Holiday.