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.

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The soothing island • From forest bathing to beach moonwalks, Jersey is the perfect place to find solace in Nature, says Antonia Windsor

Into the open air • If you'd rather embrace adventure than the restorative power of Nature, here are a few activities to try on the island

Around Jersey in eight landmarks • Penny Byrne explores the island’s history through some of its most fascinating monuments

An island called home • Holly Kirkwood unearths some of the best properties for sale in Jersey

Onto the court • Winner of a team gold medal at the Commonwealth Games, Jersey-raised netball superstar Serena Guthrie talks to Arabella Youens about her island childhood

Mrs Guy Hindley • Amber is a former actress and the joint owner and managing director of Gisburne Park estate in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire. Together with her husband, Guy, she is about to start a multi-million-pound refurbishment of the manor house, with plans to turn it into a private members’ club, hotel and art centre. She is also mother to Hunter and Teddy Hindley.

It’s coming home

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Town & Country

A picture paints 1,000 trees

Good week for

Bad week for

A rum business

En pointe

Doing the donkey work

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

Country Mouse • Free and easy?

Town Mouse • A problem with snails

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE July 16, 1921

Oh, the agony! • New agony aunt Mrs Hudson solves your dilemmas

Town & Country Notebook

Simple suppers • Fig, almond and honey tart

In the spotlight • Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)

Wines of the week

Brief encounters

Letters to the Editor

Why ‘reNaturing’ is the way forward

A chance to save our railway stations

The way we were • Photographs from the Country Life archive

Henry VIII after Hans Holbein the Younger

Drawing the line • Somewhere over the rainbow

Charleston Farmhouse • Home of the Bloomsbury Group

A marriage of Arts

What they said

A Greek revival Taitlands, Stainforth, North Yorkshire Restored by Emma and Martin Sharp • An exemplary restoration project has created a modern family home from a fine neo-Grecian country house that has been in institutional use since the 1940s. John Martin Robinson admires the result

‘Essentially a working terrier’ • Comedic and affectionate with endless energy, it’s not hard to see how Border terriers steal hearts, be it Lorraine Kelly’s or Sir Andy Murray’s –but beware the prey drive, warns Katy Birchall

Bordering on perfect

To a skylark • Hailed by Shelley as a ‘blithe spirit’ and evocatively celebrated in one of our most revered pieces of music, this brave little bird needs more farming friends, finds Ian Morton

Up with the lark

A village affair • The customs, characters and communities of the English village have long sparked literary inspiration, from Jane Austen to Midsomer Murders, says Flora Watkins

Famous villages in literature

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