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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Lark still ascending

Events, publications and commemorations

In the eye of the storm

Good week for

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How does your garden grow?

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Country Mouse

Town Mouse • A party in the rain

Oh the agony! • Agony aunt Mrs Hudson solves your dilemmas

COUNTRY LIFE January 21, 1922

Town & Country Notebook

In the spotlight • Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)

Wines of the week

Thank you for the music

Letters to the Editor

Time to sober up

Cultural Crusader • Revealing a masterpiece of the Romanesque

The way we were • Photographs from the Country Life archive

My favourite painting Charlie McCormick • Charlotte Mullins comments on Bouquet of Flowers

Silence of the geese • Hounds on the foreshore are a more cheerful sight than scores of sick wildfowl

Telephone kiosk

‘A monumental presence'

What they said

Et in Arcadia ego • It has taken three years and more than a quarter of a million plants to bring brilliant new life to the great wooded bank at Chatsworth in Derbyshire, finds Steven Desmond

Seeds of change • Old is not always best, says Val Bourne, as recent developments in plant breeding have given us slow-to-bolt lettuces and sweetcorn designed for British summers

Vegetable-seed suppliers

The best of the old and the new

Dear Miss Salley Gardens... • Novelist Salley Vickers recalls the walled garden of her childhood, where her love of plants was first kindled

Potting sheds • Perfect places for potting and pottering, selected

Brought to book

Horticultural aide-mémoire

Kitchen garden cook Parsnips

More ways with Parsnips

Forgotten tools of the rural estate • Once used regularly, now cast aside: can you identify what these items were for, asks Octavia Pollock

Part 1 Norman and Plantagenet 1066–1399 • Each month of this 125th anniversary year, COUNTRY LIFE will illustrate a period in the development of the English great house, from the Middle Ages to the present day. In the first of this 12-part series, John Goodall looks at the architecture of the Norman and Plantagenet home

Telegraph-pole appreciation for beginners • The Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society might sound like a joke, but it has gained 1,100 members in its 20 years of existence. Andrew Martin finds out more

Reach for the skies

Sloping off • Holly Chandler, co-founder of travel experts Fish & Pips, tells Hetty Lintell the best long lunch spots in her favourite mountain resorts

The need for English tweed • You might think tweed, named for the Scottish pronunciation of ‘twill’, is only made north of the border. Not so, says Mary Miers, who finds English makers are becoming a force to be reckoned with

Rags recycled

The designer's room • A deep orange lends a warming glow to the boot room of this Gloucestershire manor house

Put the boot in • Everything for the...