Take to the hills
ANYONE who dreams of getting away from it all over the festive season should take to the hills—or rather the Dales—of North Yorkshire, where York-based Blenkin & Co (01904 671672) are selling handsome, Grade II-listed Douthwaite Hall, two miles from Hutton-le-Hole and three miles from Kirkbymoorside, with a guide price of ‘excess £4 million’. It’s not easy to lose a substantial, 9,410sq ft, stone-built country house within the North York Moors National Park, yet, according to owner Christine O’Neill, whose much-loved family home it has been for 29 years, ‘many of the locals don’t even know we’re here’.
Despite its location within a stone’s
