Location: South East

Delving deep into the history of one of Cheshire's grandest private estates, Nicholas Kingsley shares more of his enthralling research into Britain's great landowning families...

The Buying Solution has bolstered its Home Counties team by appointing the excellently-named Freddie Mack to cover the key areas of Guildford, Haslemere and Farnham. Freddie Mack

Arguably Britain's most beautiful country house, the Grade I listed Tyringham Hall, is being offered for sale through Savills Country Department with an £18 million guide price.

Investment partners Topland Group and Urban Exposure have acquired a cracking 3.4 acre site on the Wentworth Estate in Surrey.

Roles may have changed a bit, but Mayfair specialist estate agent Wetherell has worked out that there are more domestic staff in the area now than during the Georgian and Victorian eras.

Supply is still struggling to keep up with demand as overseas buyers come out in force, reports Julian Amos... Farmhouse near Guildford, Surrey (OIEO £1.6m)

The daffodils have already been and gone but there's sill no sign of many new instructions in the glorious Cotswolds yet, according to The Buying Solution.

The ESTAs are over for another year, with the (extensive) shortlist being successfully whittled down to just the best in class(es).

Tempting buyers with the promise of fresh air, a slower pace of life and bags and bags of space, country property exhibitions are definitely the flavour of the month this April.

Country estate agency Penyards is making a splash with a new in-house marketing team.

In the first in a new series, Nicholas Kingsley, Head of Archives Sector Development at The National Archives, shares with PrimeResi his extraordinary research into the great landowning families of the…