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.

The noblest creatures

Country Life

Town & Country

Country Mouse

Town Mouse

Town & Country Notebook

Wines of the week

Letters to the Editor

Water is too cheap

Architecture as history for everyone

The way we were Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting Christopher Woodward • Two Plants by Lucian Freud

‘We are still a nation of horse lovers’ • The Master of the Horse on the lot of equines in different cultures

The Pantheon

Now that’s what I call country music • Be it bees buzzing around pollen, a breeze through a field of wheat or the barking of deer, there are certain sounds that will forever evoke our British countryside, wherever you might find yourself, says John Lewis-Stempel

‘The river’s always talking’

House of dreams • Ardfin estate, Isle of Jura, Argyll and Bute, part II In the second of two articles, Clive Aslet examines how a Victorian shooting lodge on the southern tip of Jura has been reimagined as a modern country house

Where horses meet houses • Some of Britain’s greatest country houses become equine sporting amphitheatres once a year. Kate Green reports on how cultures collide with spectacular results

Wild riding • This is how riding holidays should be, says Octavia Pollock, as she crosses Dartmoor in the company of an Olympian

Turn on the taps • Stylish fittings to update your bathroom, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Luxury News

High Five • Keep your friends close and your mobile phone closer with these practical and beautiful phone pouches

A few of my favourite things • Chef and television presenter Clodagh McKenna is resident chef on ITV’s This Morning and author of eight cookbooks, including the bestseller In Minutes. She lives in Hampshire with her husband, Harry Herbert, and beloved dogs Alfie and Nolly, as well as 12 hens, six ducks and 12 Aberdeen Angus cattle. Over the past four years, they have restored a one-acre, 18th-century walled vegetable and fruit garden, with beehives, an orchard and wildflower meadows. The chef’s YouTube series, Our Little Sustainable Farm, is available now.

Halls of fame • Three country houses with notable histories offer the best of family living

Barn storming • With their exposed stone and brick work, wide beams and vast amounts of natural light, barn conversions offer the character and charm of historic buildings with no low-ceiling problems

Within these walls • Holkham Walled Gardens, Holkham Hall, north Norfolk The magnificent six-acre productive gardens laid out by Samuel Wyatt in the late 1700s were at the sharp edge of new growing techniques and, today, thanks to a continuing programme of repair, are once again productive. David Hurrion visits

Heatwave raves

Horticultural aide-memoire

Kitchen garden cook Celery

More ways with Celery

Far away and long ago • On the centenary of W. H. Hudson’s death, John Lewis-Stempel wonders how the celebrated writer and founder member of the RSPB came to be forgotten

Heavenly places

Cross-country collaboration • For watercolourists of many nationalities, Italy was inspirational. Work by the...