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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Churches in war and peace

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Rare breeds indeed

On the wing

Buzzing off to work

Good week for

Bad week for

Making a pig’s ear of farming

Gather ye flowers

Country Mouse • Gone fishing

Town Mouse • A shift in responsibility

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

100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE • April 15, 1922

Town & Country Notebook

In the spotlight • Barn owl (Tyto alba)

Wines of the week

If you build it

Letters to the Editor

Time to face the real world

The Burrell is back: go and visit

The way we were • Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

Charlotte Mullins comments on Hand Inside

Paradise in the Garden of England • The view has changed since Chaucer’s day, but the important things survive

The Great Map of Scotland

The OS map arrives

What they said

Crusading spirit Bunting War Memorial Chapel, Scotch Corner, North Yorkshire • A War Memorial Chapel in a remote, but magnificent spot stands as a monument to the sculptor who created it. John Goodall reports

The Editor’s Easter quiz • It is officially springtime and our array of wonderful British wildlife is at large, many trailing newly minted young in their wake. There are 23 different creatures in the picture: can you spot them all and name their offspring (for example, sheep and lamb)?

Down the rabbit hole • Pie filling, pest or pet of underrated beauty, the rabbit is a mute and gregarious commoner that will nonetheless scream, fight and kill when warranted, says John Lewis-Stempel

The Normans' rabbit conquest

Disease and decline

Bunny tales

A land of milk and Cheddar • In their latest celebration of West Country people, places and produce, ‘Deepest’ book authors Fanny Charles and Gay Pirrie-Weir explore why Somerset is so different from its neighbouring counties

Veal-and-Cheddar meatballs with tomato, fennel and buffalo mozzarella

Twelve of Somerset's best

Sea-kale sauce

The secret appeal of scurvy grass • A delicate brassica that even its mother would struggle to call pretty, the sea kale can compete with asparagus for the title of ‘taste of spring’, reveals Tom Parker Bowles

It was all yellow • Hetty Lintell’s chirpy choice for Easter

Service with a smile • Cheery designs for the table, selected by Amelia Thorpe

High endeavours • Glorious houses high in the hills of Derbyshire and Staffordshire compete with a landmark Cornish property for the best view

Very tempting indeed • Beautiful properties for less than £1 million

A colour symphony • Flamingos may draw the crowds, but it is the brilliant flower borders that keep people coming back to this wonderful garden, says Tiffany Daneff

A glad hand for gladioli

Horticultural aide-mémoire • Prick out tomatoes

He was of his time • Vaughan Williams, who was born 150 years ago, is largely seen as a pastoral composer, but there was far...