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.

STEP ABOARD • Can you reach the crow’s nest?

News

Hiding in plain sight • There are about 1,500 memorials in London, from the well known to the obscure. Carla Passino pays a visit to some of the latter on a route through central London

At home in Obscure London

The great and the good

Kenwood: the battle for the northern heights • It’s almost inconceivable nowadays to think that one of London’s most famous landmarks was once destined for redevelopment. A century on from the fight to save it, Jack Watkins finds out what happened

THE CAPITAL ACCORDING TO... Orlando Rock • The chairman of Christie’s and co-custodian of Burghley talks to Flora Watkins about rollerblading to work and raves about dim sum

Miss Marina Isabella Kimberly Hambro

In praise of the summer job

Country Life

1960s Notebook

Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

Live poets’ society

A curate’s egg at Clandon?

The way we were Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting Saad Eddine Said • Three Graces by Kehinde Wiley

All the president’s men • Listening to history rhyme

Mallard

The challenge of cathedral thinking • The new National Trust chairman on an unexpected past and hopes for the future

A poet’s home • Farringford, Isle of Wight After nearly 60 years as a hotel, this former home of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson has been triumphantly restored as a house museum. John Goodall reports

Living on the edge • They may not be home to great cities or blue lagoons, but our British islands are places of insular retreat that encapsulate extremes of weather, architecture, landscape and emotion, says Mary Miers

Riding the crest of a wave • First recorded by Capt Cook in 1778, surfing is more passion than pastime, finds Ben Lerwill, on meeting a maker of wooden boards that last a lifetime

If I be waspish, best beware my sting • They might be a pain at your summer picnic, but wasps are also voracious predators of other insects and some of Nature’s most important pest controllers, argues Seirian Sumner

Bags of style • For the beach and beyond, these tote bags hold it all, says Hetty Lintell

Introducing the Hudson COUNTRY LIFE x Ettinger Collection • To celebrate our 125th anniversary, COUNTRY LIFE has joined forces with Ettinger to create a collection of luxurious travel accessories that embody the spirit of Edwardian travel

Swing low • The smartest hanging lights, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Worlds apart • Getting away from the ‘hustle and bustle’ is not a new phenomenon, as these three remote estates show

The lure of the sea • Dramatic vistas, azure waters and salty breezes are just what the doctor ordered

A world away • Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, near Gulval, Cornwall Created over 25 years, this 20-acre hillside garden brilliantly succeeds in its makers’ aim of providing a haven far away from cares and worry, discovers James Alexander-Sinclair

Nuts, oh hazelnuts...

Kitchen garden cook Courgettes

Liver birds? Try Toon gulls • Kittiwakes might be declining across the world,...