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LAST week’s West Country number of COUNTRY LIFE saw the launch onto the market of the historic, 247-acre Yarner House estate on the north-eastern slopes of Haytor Down, three miles west of Bovey Tracey on the eastern edge of the Dartmoor National Park. Edward Clarkson of Knight Frank’s Exeter office (01392 423111) quotes a guide price of £5.5 million for the Devon estate as a whole, or £5m for Grade II-listed Yarner House with its land, buildings and one cottage; the Lodge Cottage is available separately for £500,000.

‘Robert Mowbray defied the king, which led to the seizure of his estates’

Yarner House and the adjoining Yarner Wood, a 365-acre block of ancient woodland managed by Natural

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