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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Watch what you plant

Good week for

Bright lights, big church

Wuthering heights

Tracking Penelope

Roundhouse solace

Get booking

Country Mouse • The twilight hour

Town Mouse • A domestic reprieve

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

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE • ,

Time to buy

Notebook

Unmissable events

In the spotlight • Comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album)

Wines of the week

Contact us (photographs welcome)

Letters to the Editor

We can rely on the Royal Family

High hopes for the art world in Paris

The way we were • Photographs from the Country Life archive

My favourite painting Dan Skelton • Study of ‘The Start’ by Sir Alfred Munnings

When the fishing gods smile • Beaver benefits and river bagging

On the record • National Trust members must vote by midnight, October 22, on the motion to ban legal trail hunting on Trust land

Hunting for solutions • The MFHA chairman on a lifetime with hounds, avoiding ‘own goals’ and the future

The Land Rover

Wilks and the first gas-turbine car

Where to see them

Sweet like chocolate • Never judge a book by its cover–or a labrador by its chocolate coat, especially now they are no longer reviled in the shooting field, says Katy Birchall

Major in the history moments of labrador breeding

A whiter shade of pale

‘Wales in miniature’ • St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff, part II In the second of two articles, David Robinson looks at the story behind the important collection of historic Welsh buildings at St Fagans and its two striking medieval recent additions

Making a splash • If you were granted only five consecutive casts anywhere in the world–and they were to be your last–where would they be? Adrian Dangar asks the fishing experts

The thrill of la chasse • At the revamped Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris, it is still accepted that hunting and Nature can be mutually beneficial, says John Lewis-Stempel

Time to tweed up • Heritage fabrics in beautiful designs never go out of style, says Hetty Lintell

A many-splendoured thing • Our correspondent savours the challenge of casting a few flies on the fabled Naver for the first time and ponders the endless paths a life of fishing roves

From rasher with love • Sizzling, crispy and irresistibly pork-scented bacon all starts with a well-reared traditional breed of pig and a slow, careful curing process, says Tom Parker Bowles

The perfect bacon sandwich

Bringing home the bacon: seven of the best producers

Kitchen garden cook Pears

More ways with pears

The Globetrotter • Anouska Hempel is a hotelier and interior designer who recently launched Hempel House & Hotel, a curated collection of her interior pieces

Pack your bags • Ca’ di Dio, Venice, Italy

Travel News

Revive body and soul

The traveller’s tip

The Charleston effect • The joyful...