RUPERT SWEETING of Knight Frank’s country department (020–7861 1078) quotes a guide price of £9.75 million for Lot 1, Grade I-listed Hazelbury Manor and its surrounding estate. The lot comprises some 182 acres of organic gardens, pasture and broadleaf woodland near the popular north Wiltshire village of Box, on the southwestern edge of the Cotswolds AONB, three miles from Corsham and six miles from Bath. Lot 2, the converted, one-bedroom Old Toll House in the south-west corner of the estate, is on offer at £250,000.
The manor of Hazelbury was owned by the Croke family from about 1280 until the mid 15th century, when the last male Croke of Hazelbury died and the property passed, through one of his daughters, to her husband, John
