ESTATE agents selling a manor house in the Pewsey Vale have denied rumours that superstar Robbie Williams is interested in the property.

News that Williams is not buying the Manor House in Milton Lilbourne will be greeted with mixed feelings but largely relief in the village.

For the past week rumours have been sweeping the Pewsey Vale that Robbie Williams is buying the £3 million manor.

National newspaper journalists have been quizzing villagers about what they know.

The talk of the village last weekend and this week has focussed around: "Is he, isn't he?"

The Gazette was given an assurance on Tuesday by Salisbury agents Savills that not only is Robbie Williams not buying the manor, he has never expressed any interest in it.

The former owner of the manor, Belinda Gentle, who was previously chairman of the parish council, died last year.

Savills was appointed as selling agent and put a price of £3,000,000 on the house, which has ten bedrooms, four reception rooms and a coach house standing in a total of more than 15 acres of gardens and paddocks.

Robbie Williams, the ex-Take That star turned solo singer, has had his name linked with a number of up-market properties that have gone on the market over the past year in the West Country.

At the weekend rumour swept Milton Lilbourne that Williams was thinking of becoming the village squire, the title that invariably goes with the manor ownership.

Villagers learned from the international selling agents Savills that an offer had been accepted on the house.

However Savills said that Williams was definitely not the buyer.

A spokesman for the agents' Salisbury office said: "Whenever we have any reasonably sized country houses come on to the market they start rumours that Robbie or Kylie are buying them."