This week we pay tribute to our amazing bluebell woods- but can you tell the difference between recent invader the spanish bluebell, and our native flowers
PLUS
** Eastern England property special
** As Tattersalls, Europe’s leading bloodstock auctioneer celebrates its 250th birthday, Mark Hedges reports on its enduring success
** Michael Hall charts the origins of these masculine domains from the 1880s and how they were decorated
** Matthew Dennison salutes the best examples of English locksmithing
** Braving the cold has never been so easy, says Annunciata Walton as she chooses the most stylish outdoor heaters
** Recipes with wild garlic
** Author Hunter Davies tells Jeremy Taylor about Wainwright, widowhood and working with the Beatles
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A billionaire's thatched cottage is for sale in Surrey, once owned by the oil magnate J. Paul GettyChestnut Cottage is a joyous little home — albeit one with the most unusual bedrooms to acreage to price balances we've ever seen. Toby Keel takes a look inside.
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Debo Mitford on her childhood at Asthall Manor, from Nancy's 'coming out' dance to Unity's peach-pinching waysThe Dowager Duchess of Devonshire looks back on her childhood in the Cotswold idyll of Asthall Manor.
