Country Life

Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today. It has a unique core mix of contemporary country-related editorial and top end property advertising. Editorially, the magazine comments in-depth on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, the arts, gardens and gardening, travel, the countryside, field-sports and wildlife. With renowned columnists and superb photography Country Life delivers the very best of British life every week.

Miss Eleanor-Rose Stamp • Eleanor is an artist and freelance television producer. She is engaged to William Harrold, whom she will marry at Oxnead Hall, Norfolk, next year, and is the daughter of Gerard and Jacqui Stamp of The Old Kitchens, Gunton Hall, Norfolk.

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Country Life

Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

Seeking England

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Claire Booth

What’s next? • Wishbones, family feuds and hope against hope

Building blocks • We can expect fireworks: Labour’s draft plans for a new planning policy contain subtle, but devastating amendments that bear closer inspection

Building nationhood • A recently restored villa set in a carefully planted woodland blends traditions in pursuit of a distinctly Romanian idiom of architecture, as Jeremy Musson explains

The legacy • William Cecil and Burghley House

By the light of the harvest moon • As autumn’s whisper reminds farmers to reap their crops, inspect your produce for a suggestion of the winter to come, says Lia Leendertz

‘Neither fish nor flesh’ • A creature of bewitching contrasts, the otter is ‘an animal that might have been specifically designed to please a child’ and has captured our imaginations since first we encountered its bright-eyed gaze, says Laura Parker

The best seat in the house • Patience, knowledge and practised skill are all required to create handmade furniture. Nick Hammond discovers how one gifted woodworker found the best possible mentor, thanks to a copy of COUNTRY LIFE

Friends in low places • As special as orchids, as beautiful as bluebells and as important as oaks, our ground-hugging mosses are worth a look down, says Mark Cocker

Works for you • Head back to work in style with one of these elegant bags, advises Hetty Lintell

Bathing beauties • Elegant tubs, tiles and accessories for the bathroom, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Escape to ‘God’s own country’ • Yorkshire folk are rightly proud of their county’s magnificent landscapes and rich architectural heritage, but incomers looking to settle there face strong competition from local contenders for picture-perfect country houses

What’s in a name? • Unusually named houses for when you’re bored with Rose Cottages and Old Rectories

London Life • Your indispensable guide to the capital

London Life Need to Know

Fêted and plated • Behind every powerful man is a woman and behind every successful restaurant is a wise and passionate restaurateur. Tom Parker Bowles meets some of the best

Peanuts and pencils • The thrill of a new pencil case doesn’t fade with age, finds Jo Rodgers, on a visit to Anya Hindmarch’s new stationery pop-up shop

It started with a blank canvas • An exquisite small garden is rich in colour and texture and has been imaginatively extended, as you would expect of a painter’s domain, reports Jane Powers

Delicious drupes

Kitchen garden cook Figs

What a cracker • Supplementing our suppers since the Stone Age, deciduous hazel forms the backbone of our hedgerows and was once used as an arboreal tarmac, finds...