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TODAY’S COUNTRY LIFE sees the launch onto the market of one of Oxfordshire’s most impeccably situated, but least-known country houses, the timeless, Grade II- listed Woodleys at Wootton, which sits at the heart of a historic, 230-acre, residential and farming estate on the edge of the Cotswold AONB, three miles from Woodstock, 10 miles from Chipping Norton and 12 miles from Oxford.

Will Matthews of Knight Frank’s Country Department (020–7861 1440) quotes a guide price of £16 million for the imposing late-Georgian house, which stands in wooded gardens, grounds and parkland to the north of the Duke of Marlborough’s

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