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The Country Life Podcast
Isabella Tree on how rewilding took the Knepp Estate from a ruin in the red to a miracle of Nature
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Travel
Stanwell House hotel review: A central Lymington bolthole that perfectly marries forest and sea
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Restaurants and pubs
This is how we brew it: The cafés of the Cotswolds
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Property
‘A buzz in the air’ as housing market activity picks up
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Property
Best country houses for sale this week
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Art and Antiques
How a 20-year-old Leonora Carrington told off one of Surrealism's leading lights, and embarked on a career which has just seen her masterpiece go for $22 million
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Property
An award-winning architectural delight in Polzeath that's a perfect place to watch the sun set
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Property
Where Cotswolds stone meets Art Deco, a fabulous country home with walled garden, stables — and a pool to wash your sheep
Property
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A small country estate in the Lake District that comes with its very own title and was once the home of Arthur Ransome
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The £1m pair of Victorian sea forts for sale in the waters off Britain, complete with hotel rooms, nightclub and helipad
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A five-bedroom home within the golden triangle of the Cotswolds that oozes cosiness and charm
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A beautiful Georgian home with columns, colonnades, cottages, space and stables
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A classic Georgian manor house in an ancient hilltop town in the Cotswolds
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Six of the best homes in the Cotswolds (or just outside) for sale, as seen in this week's Country Life
Interiors
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Interiors
WOW!house 2024: Six of the brightest ideas you'll see at the interiors event
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Interiors
'Not cheap... but cheaper than a divorce lawyer'
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Interiors
Upon reflection: How to buy an antique mirror
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Interiors
The ancient decorative painting technique enjoying a revival 2,000 years after being the talk of Pompeii
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Food and Drink
Where to find the world's best club sandwich
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Motoring
The Aston Martin Vantage review: A fusion of love, joy and metal
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Nature
The terrible truth about the cuckoo, and the 'monstrous outrages' it perpetrates on its foster parents and siblings
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Promoted
Reader event: Celebrate Chelsea in bloom with Katharine Pooley
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Comment & Opinion
Jonathan Self: Real friendship survives separation, violently different opinions and surprisingly shabby behaviour'
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Art and Antiques
The English climate destroyed almost all our medieval church paintings — but not these ones
Nature
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From the 'gatekeeper' to the 'Scotch argus', where did butterflies and moths get their strange names?
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Michael Prodger: How Britain’s landscapes have inspired painters across the centuries
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'The most important spring landscape flower in Britain' that 'engulfs everything in its path' — The unstoppable exuberance of the frothing cow parsley
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The mystery of the hedge: How an exhibition on these living walls seeks to explain our fascination with their place in the landscape
Travel
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'Sometimes I like to think I have my finger on the pulse when it comes to design and fashion. I am incorrect' — Celebrating one of Europe's biggest street parties in the cushion of contemporary luxury
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Latimer Farm in Oddington: 'One of the most charming places that you could spend a few days'
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Glebe House, Devon: 'The antithesis of big brand hotels'
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Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way: 'Who knew that winding coastal lanes could be so lucrative?'
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Is this the best holiday house to rent on Cornwall’s north coast?
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Sterrekopje: A centuries-old sanctuary hidden in a blessed corner of South Africa
Cars
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Curious Questions: Who was the first person to take a driving test?
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The Queen's old Range Rover — one which she used to pick up the Obamas — has come up for sale
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E-Types, Scotland's best beaches and the 'backwards-looking fantasy' of rewilding: Country Life's best features of 2023
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My 'Franken-Land Rover' has had three new chassis and using the indicators turns on the windscreen wipers. But I just can't get rid of it.
Food & Drink
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Chocolate hobnobs, mascarpone and mint — the perfect cheesecake for summer
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The wicker weavers who can make a picnic hamper with such skill that you can choose whether it's silent or squeaky
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Charcuterie, chilli oil, pickling and pastry: how to make the world's best picnic
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‘I have nothing but rapt adoration and the greatest of respect for this sugary art form’: Tom Parker Bowles on the perfection of puddings
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Tom Parker Bowles shares his sublime fish pie recipe, but with a few rules attached
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Jason Goodwin: When gaucho chic in Dorset becomes something 'between instrument of torture and decommissioned nuclear reactor'