Television gardener Alan Titchmarsh is yet to sell his Georgian farmhouse in Holybourne but is already working on the garden of his new home.

Alan, 76, and his wife Alison have moved out of their five-bedroom home in the village next to Alton, swapping its four-acre plot - featuring ten mini waterfalls, a large greenhouse and a shed - for a more manageable 1.5 acres at their new place.

They had lived in the Grade II listed property since 2002 but have said downsizing and being closer to their two daughters and grandchildren are their reasons for moving.

Last July Alan, originally from Ilkley in West Yorkshire, was seen at a meeting called by the Holybourne Village Association to discuss plans by developer Redbrown to build 160 houses on land near his home.

But Alan did not speak at the meeting at the Church of the Holy Rood, attended by hundreds of villagers, and later told the Daily Mail he had not been influenced by the proposal.

He said any suggestion it had been a factor in his decision was “completely wide of the mark”.

The couple left Holybourne in December and have cut the asking price of their home from £3.95 million to £3.5 million in an effort to sell it.

Alan was the star guest at many local events during his time in the village, including cutting the ribbon to open the Freedom Through Expression art gallery in Alton in 2024.

In 2022 he wore his Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire uniform at Andrews’ Endowed Primary School in Holybourne, where he spoke to members of its gardening club.

And in 2017 he planted a Jane Austen rose in the garden of her Chawton home.

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Alan became a CBE while living in Holybourne, being recognised for services to horticulture and charity in the New Year Honours List 2025.