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A cottage immortalised in the famous Hovis TV advert featuring a young boy struggling to push his bike up a steep cobbled street is up for sale.<br />
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The bungalow at Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, Dorset, was the home of 'Old Ma Peggotty' in the ad - the last house on the bakery boy's round.<br />
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The 1973 commercial, directed by Ridley Scott, was voted Britain's all-time favourite TV advert in 2006.<br />
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In it the lad is heard to say that delivering bread to the house on top of the hill 't'was like taking bread to the top of the world.'

BNPS.co.uk (01202 558833)
Pic: RachelAdams/BNPS

A cottage immortalised in the famous Hovis TV advert featuring a young boy struggling to push his bike up a steep cobbled street is up for sale.

The bungalow at Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, Dorset, was the home of 'Old Ma Peggotty' in the ad - the last house on the bakery boy's round.

The 1973 commercial, directed by Ridley Scott, was voted Britain's all-time favourite TV advert in 2006.

In it the lad is heard to say that delivering bread to the house on top of the hill 't'was like taking bread to the top of the world.'