England-based May Savidge was a woman with a mission. When developers and planners threatened to crush her historic cottage under a road-building project, she came up with a daunting plan.

Long before conservation became fashionable, she decided to move her home lock, stock and barrel from busy Ware High Street in Hertfordshire to a Norfolk backwater 100 miles away.

And move it she did, in a 23-year labor of love, during which she battled the authorities, deathwatch beetles, rats and her failing health, accompanied only by her faithful dog, Sasha.

This story is an amazing act of will and courage and sheer tenacity.

By the time of her death, her renovated house was far from completed. But her story will live on.

Read more about this truly powerful woman.