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Country Life UK
And they're off!
Four historic country houses with long-standing racing credentials come to the market in prime sporting areas of Berkshire and Oxfordshire
5 min |
October 16, 2024
Country Life UK
Hooked on classics
A new generation of designers is learning the language of Greek and Roman architecture, finds
3 min |
October 16, 2024
Country Life UK
England at its best
The Exmoor National Park Authority is celebrating its 70th birthday. Kate Green recounts what makes this 'high country of the winds', of deer, dark skies, tough ponies and resilient farmers, so special
6 min |
October 16, 2024
Country Life UK
Once upon a time in the west
Having returned to the fabled Grimersta lochs and streams of Lewis for the first time in 40 years, our correspondent finds himself reliving the glory
5 min |
October 16, 2024
Country Life UK
Meet the tusk force
The Chinese water deer, with its distinctive tusks and delicious venison, has thrived here since escaping from deer parks in the 19th century. Paula Lester stalks one for her supper
5 min |
October 16, 2024
Country Life UK
This perfumed arcadia
Home to the iconic skylark, the chalk downlands are as colourful and botanically diverse as rainforest. John Lewis-Stempel explores England's oldest manmade habitat
4 min |
October 16, 2024
Country Life UK
Murder on the palace floor
The Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh The official residence in Scotland of His Majesty the King
10+ min |
October 16, 2024
Country Life UK
A berry timely harvest
AS summer leans into autumn and either end of the day anticipates the season to come, I occasionally find myself checking the slowly colouring fruit of the Chilean guava hedge that edges one of the perennial beds.
3 min |
October 02,2024
Country Life UK
The rest is history
Narrative art that explored religious, mythological, historical or allegorical subjects took a while to become established in Britain, but, when it did, it was in its grandest form, on the largest scale and for a very long time, finds Michael Hall
7 min |
October 02,2024
Country Life UK
The show must go on
England travel to Pakistan for a three-match Test series. James Fisher contemplates the sublime and the ridiculous
3 min |
October 02,2024
Country Life UK
If walls could talk
Is it possible to take on the genius or character of those who have slept in your bed before? Steven King stays in homes with illustrious past owners to find out
6 min |
October 02,2024
Country Life UK
That old chestnut
For the unimaginative Briton, chestnuts roasting on an open fire is the only way to go. Yet these sharp little nuts can elevate your baking game, assures John Wright
3 min |
October 02,2024
Country Life UK
The world on the doorstep
England, Africa, Italy or China-it's possible to travel the world without leaving this imaginatively designed garden, which divides into four distinct geographical sections. Each one has resonance for the owners, reports Caroline Donald
4 min |
October 02,2024
Country Life UK
To build or not to build
When it comes to the skyline, do we need to know when to say 'enough is enough', asks John Goodall
3 min |
October 02,2024
Country Life UK
Pyramid scheme
In a city as large as London, the problem of where to lay the dead to rest is ever-present. One extraordinary unfulfilled scheme would have made space for five million, finds Jack Watkins
3 min |
October 02,2024
Country Life UK
Best foot forward
Some of the country's finest estate agents let Annabel Dixon in on the secrets of prepping a country house for sale.
2 min |
October 02,2024
Country Life UK
Nice work in the West
With hybrid working now a fact of life, four special houses in Devon and Cornwall are well equipped to more than pay their way
5 min |
October 02,2024
Country Life UK
Pretty Chitty-Bang-Bang, we love you
As our fine four-fendered friend turns 60, Mary Miers relives the adventures of the magical flying car and reveals the little-known story of its creation.
5 min |
October 02,2024
Country Life UK
Another string to the bow
For British luthier Roger Hansell, a chance teenage encounter led to a lifetime devoted to making the perfect violin, discovers Harry Pearson
5 min |
October 02,2024
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Bury me in a willow-shaped coffin
In the osier beds of Worcestershire and Somerset, the wind is still playing in the willows destined for baskets, 'fedging' and custom-made coffins, finds Jane Wheatley
3 min |
October 02,2024
Country Life UK
Mud-gilded places
Part water, part earth and a habitat of constant movement, the bleak and desolate estuary environment is an acquired taste. Yet this monochrome minimalism can be paradise, finds John Lewis-Stempel
4 min |
October 02,2024
Country Life UK
Handsome and genteel - Mount Vernon, Virginia, US, part II A property in the care of Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
In the second of two articles, Jeremy Musson reports on the recent campaign to restore the memorable interiors of George and Martha Washington's country home
8 min |
October 02,2024
Country Life UK
Love in a dry climate
Garden design in the Arizona desert is a matter of adapting to the weather and the terrain and being clever with cacti. The spectacular results fill Kendra Wilson with awe
4 min |
September 25, 2024
Country Life UK
The spread of Johnny Appleseed
DRIVE along a country lane at this time of the year and you may see an apple tree growing out of the hedgerow.
3 min |
September 25, 2024
Country Life UK
All that meat and no potatoes
More than merely super-sized burgers and fries, American food is a mouthwatering reflection of the nation's cultural diversity
4 min |
September 25, 2024
Country Life UK
A Newport state of mind
Once proclaimed to be the original American art form, jazz continues to thrive at the eponymous jazz festival of Rhode Island
4 min |
September 25, 2024
Country Life UK
Route to the past
Does the world's most famous road still capture the romance of the open road? We brave 1,300 miles of Route 66 to find out
5 min |
September 25, 2024
Country Life UK
Steady as she goes
Fairy-tale palaces that float upon the sea first appeared in the Edwardian era. A century later, the majestic ocean liners of the 'golden age of travel' continue to captivate
3 min |
September 25, 2024
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The new Colossus
Standing proud at the 'sea-washed, sunset gates', Lady Liberty became a beacon of hope for immigrants and a symbol of freedom under just and democratic law
5 min |
September 25, 2024
Country Life UK
The time is now
Agents at Strutt & Parker's Country House Department share their tips to selling your property as they look forward to a busy autumn
3 min |