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The country house where PG Wodehouse wrote one of his best-loved books, and where the wife of Charles I fled from her would-be captors

It was in the grounds of this 15th century property that Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of Charles I, reputedly hid in as she fled on her way to seek refuge in France. Penny Churchill tells its story.

Imposing, Grade II*-listed Cheney Court, which is for sale through Strutt & Parker’s country department at a guide price of £4.5 million, stands on a gentle south-facing slope in the hamlet of Ditteridge in the Wiltshire Cotswolds.

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