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THE country-house market in North Yorkshire took off in style last week with the launch onto the market—at a guide price of £4.95 million through Knight Frank (020–7861 1114)—of the immaculate, 117-acre Crosby Court estate, three miles from the North Riding county town of Northallerton, at the northern end of the Vale of York. The estate offers everything a sporting family could wish for, including a fine, Grade II-listed country house set on high ground in the middle of its land and surrounded by pristine formal gardens, a tennis court, a swimming pool, cottages, stabling and farm buildings, with glorious

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