Inside idyllic UK village that Martin Lewis grew up in where homes fetch £460K

Award-winning journalist and consumer hero Martin Lewis CBE has helped millions of Britons save money and take control of their finances.

Founder and Executive Chair of the successful Money Saving Expert website, the consumer guru also has his own prime-time ITV show, is a charity founder, author and according to Google the UK's 'most searched-for' British man. A career well spent, he has also been at the forefront of major financial justice campaigns, including reclaiming bank charges and PPI.

Every week Martin Lewis comforts, consoles, and offers amazing financial advice to people across the UK on his ITV1 show The Martin Lewis Money Show: Live. At times, viewers even see him become emotional as he attempts to help those in desperate situations.

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The very definition of a 'man for the people', Martin was born in the Didsbury suburb of Manchester but spent his formative years growing up in a rural village in Cheshire's Delamere Forest, where he attended The King's School in Chester.

He later went on to study Government and Law at the London School of Economics, where he became involved in political campaigning, before completing a postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism at Cardiff University.

Today, Martin lives in London with his TV presenter wife Lara Lewington and their daughter Sapphire. Despite enjoying an idyllic childhood in rural Cheshire, his world fell apart when his mum was tragically killed just before his 12th birthday.

Martin, whose family home was in Norley near Frodsham, told listeners of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs about the profound impact of his mother Susan’s death.

“My mum was there one day and she wasn’t