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Shropshire, £1.65 million

property has occupied the site of Eudon Gorge Manor since at least the 11th century (there exists a record in Domesday). Despite this longevity, the current 17th-century manor house had fallen into disrepair by the 1980s, whereupon it was sensitively restored and renovated into the fine five-bedroom period home it is now. The interiors are a symphony in Jacobean charm, but

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