As the final part of Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" trilogy hits our TV screens, "I predict a sudden revival of the Tudor aesthetic", said historian Suzannah Lipscomb in The Telegraph. The impressive ...

So here goes: Thornbury Castle and I have history. The old house I grew up in was linked to the Tudor castle by a secret underground passage. Despite years of scraping and prodding we never found it.

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