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The times they are a-changin’

‘His son, Tim, recalled a happy childhood growing up at Elmestree’

THE launch onto the market in today’s COUNTRY LIFE of the timeless Elmestree House estate at Doughton, near Tetbury, Gloucestershire, marks the end of an era for the Wilson family, who have farmed it since 1949. Matthew Sudlow, head of Estates and Farm Agency at Strutt & Parker (01865 366640), seeks ‘offers in excess of £7.5 million’ for the wonderfully unspoilt, Grade II-listed manor house and farmstead set in 117 acres of ancient parkland abutting Highgrove, The Prince of Wales’s Cotswold home since 1980.

The Elmestree estate lies within the Cotswold AONB, two miles from the historic wool town of Tetbury, in

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