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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Country Life

Town & Country

All roads lead to Edinburgh

Half-term timetable

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

Is the party over?

What will happen to Cambridge Castle?

Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

My favourite painting Jean-Louis Sebagh • My Wife, Nude, Contemplating her Own Flesh Becoming Stairs, Three Vertebrae of a Column, Sky and Architecture by Salvador Dalí

No time for sentiment • After shovelling silage and feeding his sheep on a damp October morning, John Lewis-Stempel takes aim at a grey-squirrel drey in a bid to warn off its absent occupants from targeting songbirds

The Phantom of the Opera

A Georgian celebration • The results of the Georgian Group’s 2022 Architectural Awards, sponsored by Savills, have just been revealed. The winners were chosen from an exceptionally strong field by a panel of judges, chaired by COUNTRY LIFE’s Architectural Editor, John Goodall

This fortress built by Nature for herself • COUNTRY LIFE’s Picture Editor Lucy Ford salutes the wild and often untamed beauty of Britain with her pick of the striking images from this year’s Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards

‘Governed for God’s praise’ • Beeleigh Abbey, Essex, part I The home of Catherine and the late Christopher Foyle In the first of two articles, David Robinson revisits an exceptional and little-known survival of the Premonstratensian canons, one of the less-familiar monastic and religious orders of medieval Britain

Dabbling with pretty ducks • Ornamental waterfowl are an endlessly cheering and fascinating addition to any stretch of water, but they can make a mess. Vicky Liddell asks experienced keepers for their advice

Sweet to the core • Invented as the result of a happy accident, toffee apples are even more delectable when served with goat’s cheese on Bonfire Night, says Debora Robertson

COUNTRY LIFE BEST IN CLASS 2022 • COUNTRY LIFE’s editorial team has pooled knowledge and instinct to share a highly curated selection of 70 items that epitomise craftsmanship, aesthetics, function, durability, quality and are a pleasure to own

Red sky at night is a solar delight • When updating a house, new furniture, paint and joinery is transformative –and so is creating a source of free energy

Luxury Notebook

High Five • Keep frostbite at bay with a pair of elegant gloves

A few of my favourite things • Born in 1955, the leading garden writer and broadcaster grew up in Hampshire, where he enjoyed gardening from a young age. Lead presenter of Gardeners’ World since 2003, which is filmed at his own garden, Longmeadow, Herefordshire, he has published more than 20 books, including the bestsellers Down to Earth, Nigel: My Family and Other Dogs and My Garden World. Venetian Gardens, by Monty Don and Derry Moore, published by BBC Books, is out now.

Changing places • A modern masterpiece leads a pack of three fine homes in the north of England

In fine form • Lucy Denton investigates how art incorporated in development adds or detracts from...