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.

Lucy Shepherd

A special relationship

Country Life

Town & Country

Country Mouse

Town Mouse

Town & Country Notebook

Wines of the week

Letters to the Editor

Oh, the irony

A crisis for the Church of Scotland

The way we were Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting Tessy Ojo • While We Wait by Sophia Oshodin

Scents and sensitivity • As he observes his cows on a warm August day, John Lewis-Stempel allows himself to be led by the nose and discovers that weather-whiffing is no dark art, but proper science

The Lady of Shalott

Nino, the cosmopolitan Englishman

What they said

Romance realised • Ardfin estate, Isle of Jura, Argyll and Bute, part I A Victorian shooting lodge has been stylishly recast as the heart of a modern estate. In the first of two articles, Clive Aslet reports on this remarkable project

When the saints go marching in • With his heart set on ‘pilgrim-ing’ through the Highlands–one of Europe’s most beautiful landscapes–Joe Gibbs retraces St Columba’s footsteps to Iona, little knowing that a bout of norovirus is about to hinder his best-laid plans

St Columba and Iona

Bring me my bow • Sir Walter Scott’s legacy lives on as The Queen’s Body Guard for Scotland, The Royal Company of Archers, celebrates its bicentenary on a joyful royal occasion. Jamie Blackett brushes off his uniform

The Reddendo tradition

From sea to shining sea • On the 200th anniversary of the opening of Thomas Telford’s Caledonian Canal, Mary Miers explores the greatest manmade marvel of the Highlands

On the water: top canals in England and Wales

The designer’s room • Life-enhancing colour creates the perfect backdrop to family life in this Hampshire sitting room, designed by Henriette Von Stockhausen

Softly does it • Ottomans and footstools, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Highland fling • Hetty Lintell draws inspiration from the Scottish landscape

Pride of Scotland • Lochs, burns, wild mountains, cattle, fishing, shooting and grouse moors: Scotland has it all in spades, as these properties show

North of the border • Irresistible bolthole properties in glorious Scotland

A load of old cobbles • Sweetly evocative of a past we never knew, but a nightmare for cyclists, cobbled streets were once a lifesaver for our working horses, explains Harry Pearson

The tree of life • Growing at bleak heights where no other could thrive, the rowan tree is an endless benefactor of wild things despite its toxic nature, says John Lewis-Stempel

Our mystical mountain ash

Making rowan jelly

Natural magic • The private garden at Bonnington House, near Edinburgh The home of Mr and Mrs Wilson Arabella Lennox-Boyd has designed a garden of underlying structure overlaid with colour and charm creating many different areas, each with its own personality, discovers Caroline Donald

A palette of purples

Heavenly hydrangeas

Horticultural aide-mémoire

Kitchen garden cook Figs

More ways with Figs

Touched by our natural heritage • Nature’s equivalent of churches or standing...