Hello and welcome
I started life on a farm in Norfolk and now live on a smallholding in Scotland, so I suppose I have done what you want to do. We were about 20 miles inland in Norfolk and back then we did have some very hard winters. My brother still lives there and it seems that Norfolk winters are now mostly fairly mild and dry, with the occasional surprise, and the summers very dry. We never noticed much wind, although it is reputed to be windy - ok the odd tree came down but nothing out of the ordinary. In Scotland we are much higher, at 1000', and about in the middle of the southern part of the country. Here it is definitely windy, fairly wet but not as bad as Sally finds it. There is something about annual rainfall decreasing by an inch for 30 miles as you head east (not sure of the precise figures). What we do get is lots of snow - deep snow which lies for ages with temps very far below freezing. Also recently our summers have been very wet and cool, with only the occasional lovely day.
Last and first frosts occur much closer together, so the growing season is shorter, but the days of summer are noticeably longer up here, and even more so the further north you go, so plants can do more growing in their shorter season.
All of these things can be dealt with - grow under protection, lay in stores for winter, own a 4wd vehicle, keep hardy animal breeds and try not to get depressed when the sun doesn't shine
I love the challenge of adapting to living here (I have been here for over 40 years
) and it is all worth it because this is a great country to live in. The people are friendly, the countryside is beautiful and the accents are music to the ear