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.

Hello, February

Country Life

Get on my land!

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

New link formed in food chain

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Roger Morgan-Grenville

A Palladian premonition • In the first of three articles, Richard Hewlings examines one of the most original and idiosyncratic houses of early 18th-century Yorkshire and offers a fresh analysis of its architecture

The legacy • Robert FitzRoy and weather forecasting

Full of the joys of spring(ers) • Big brother to the fashionable cocker, the energetic, enthusiastic and thoroughly endearing English springer remains our most popular working spaniel, says Matthew Dennison

Dear country diary • Published six days a week since 1904, The Guardian’s Country Diary is a remarkable record of so many great writers’ adoration of wildlife and the British countryside, says its editor Paul Fleckney

Snake, rattle and roll • Imported from India, Snakes and Ladders has been stripped of its demigods, Heaven and other spiritual elements, until only the dice and an ability to count remain, finds Rob Crossan

Light my fire • Stoves and fireplaces for winter warmth, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Logging off • There are plenty of ways to fuel a fire, finds Amelia Thorpe

Heard it on the radio • Company, music, news and a glimpse of life beyond: the first form of home-based mass entertainment, radio quickly became the soundtrack to our lives and it isn’t going anywhere, says Ben Lerwill

Luxury Notebook

A few of my favourite things • The former rugby forward has played 77 times for England, as well as for the British and Irish Lions and club sides around the world. Having retired from professional sport in 2019, James Haskell now hosts a number of podcasts, including The Good, The Bad & The Rugby. He has written bestselling books–from autobiographies to fitness bibles–and will host the Players’ Lounge facilities at major internationals at Allianz Stadium, Twickenham (www.allianzstadiumtwickenham.com) for corporate hospitality guests this year.

Find your route

Building the dream • Sustainable, stylish and with all the modern benefits, buying a countryside new build can be a tempting proposition

Just around the river bend • You don’t have to be a boating or fishing enthusiast to appreciate the joy of living beside the water

Magnificent mahonias • Scented, easy to grow and with many new forms in the pipeline, the once-maligned mahonia is due a renaissance, believes Charles Quest-Ritson

Friends with benefits • Charles Quest-Ritson is a convert to the use of nematodes, parasitic worms that act as a biological control of many troublesome garden pests

Clashing colours

Kitchen garden cook Horseradish

Ring-dovebeauteous! • With a month of winter still to go, John Lewis-Stempel coos over the snobbishly disregarded wood pigeon and dreams of the day when its rhythmic song heralds another British summer

Held in Trust • National Trust curators pick their favourite pieces from the charity’s vast collection, as it marks its 130th anniversary this month

Mould and behold • Josiah Wedgwood beat...