All content Archive | April 2026

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April 30th
- Slugs: The good, the bad, and the stomach-churningly disgusting
- £300 million, AI cameras and fixing 400 potholes a day: Despite best efforts, Britain's roads are worse than ever
- Elegant paints and wallpapers for every kind of country home
- Swaine: A quiet authority
- 'Properties of this calibre simply do not exist': The world's most expensive house has just come up for sale at £300 million
- 'To stick it to one side and let it rot is such a waste of a valuable resource': The buildings most at risk, according to the Victorian Society
April 29th
- The ancient manor house brought back from ruin by people of the village where it's stood for seven centuries
- Get ready for RHS Chelsea with the Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 29, 2026
- This family-run hotel is the Amalfi Coast's most legendary address. Now it has a new beach club
- 'The builders took the roof off and all the walls fell down': Mary King on her first house in the country
- 'It’s very ageing to sneer at Essex, now': A snob's guide to the Home Counties
- 'I am destined to a life surrounded by books with never quite enough shelves': George Saumarez Smith on his design for Country Life’s stand at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show
April 28th
- Lock your doors and close the windows, the Royal Family is coming to visit
- Avengers (and other heroes), assemble. It's a super Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 28, 2026
- 'Audiobooks are closer to how stories used to work before we pretended silence was superior': These are a few of Rankin's favourite things
- Is the cure for modern life as simple as going for a walk?
- Country Life April 29, 2026
- An ivy-clad farmhouse for sale in a hopelessly idyllic spot where they hold dog shows and play cricket on the village green
- The future of cultural funding rests in tax — but will the Treasury listen?
April 27th
- Art buffs, put your knowledge to the test with the Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 27, 2026
- Divine tears, fairy footsteps or the sweat of heavens: The delight of dew
- An idyllic country home and grounds designed by one of Britain's greatest-ever gardeners
- The 17th century Devon home that inspired a smoking ban and lives on only inside the Country Life Archive
- What is everyone talking about this week: The curious case of American dining
April 26th
- From Land's End to John o' Groats in one of the world's best sports cars
- 18 wonderful houses across Britain, from £725,000 to £9.5 million, as seen in Country Life
April 25th
- A Georgian home in the sleepy Surrey village that's been an A-lister's hideaway for everyone from Agatha Christie to Tom Cruise
- With a fighting spirit and human help, the red squirrel is fighting back
- Elizabeth II's favourite accessory is a firm fashion crowd favourite — and it fits inside a pocket
- 'Where we're going we don't need roads'
- Matthew Freud’s hotel with four restaurants turns the expected Cotswolds stay on its head
- The Victorian world lost for 140 years, rediscovered and restored in Devon
April 24th
- Get buzzing about bees with the Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 24, 2026
- A castle that's actually liveable: Bellister has all the grandeur and romance, but none of the usual headaches of living in a Grade I medieval pile
- Clodagh McKenna on living next door to the real Downton Abbey, meeting her husband at Fortnum & Mason’s and forest bathing
- Pulled by camels, powered by grandfathers and the bane of Peter Capaldi: The curious history of the lawnmower
- A commutable country estate that has it all: a lake, its own cricket pitch and a vast swathe of Surrey to call your own
- The first detailed and accurate bird’s-eye view of the capital ever seen shows London in a whole new light
April 23rd
- 'It was grand, untouched and cheap — too tempting to ignore': Isabel Bannerman on her (rather amazing) first house in the country
- Don't fancy taking the Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 23, 2026? Stop lion to yourself
- The man who made daffodils the flower of spring in Britain
- Salon Privé: Pictures from London's loudest garden party
- What is the secret to choosing colours that are sympathetic to the past?
- The battle for our countryside rages on
April 22nd
- How heavy is Planet Earth? Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 22, 2026
- 'It was always his fever dream... his manifesto': London’s strangest house blends art, modernity and science, and it's just thrown open its doors to visitors
- From the watch brand favoured by The King, to the £350,000 model featuring more astronomical features than a rocketship, here’s how to hide your money on your wrist
- Beauty, meet efficiency: Seven beautiful eco-homes, from Kent to the Isle of Skye
- A snob's guide to what to wear to work
- 'This event epitomised our vision for me: snow leopards and people living in harmony'
April 21st
- The real life Aladdin's cave in Manchester repairing the world's brass instruments
- Remembering Elizabeth II in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 21, 2026
- Where to eat the best risotto alla Milanese in the city where it was created, you ask? An insider’s guide to Milan, for Salone del Mobile and beyond
- Country Life April 22, 2026
- The only thing better than a country house? A country house with a wine cellar
- It’s a race to the auction house — Steve McQueen’s most storied watch is up for grabs at Sotheby's
April 20th
- Name that native tree in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 20, 2026
- When is a watch not just a watch? When it's also a piece of high jewellery
- An idyllic old rectory in Wiltshire that's for sale for the first time in more than 60 years
- The Titanic cruise line baron who revitalised the fortunes of an entire village sold through the pages of Country Life
- What is everyone talking about this week: No verbiage, please, we're British
April 19th
- Aston Martin Valhalla: A brilliantly calibrated hypercar that won't make you deaf and won't try to kill you
- Italian greyhounds — the smallest sighthound with the biggest following
- A dozen delightful properties for sale, as seen in Country Life
- ‘He approached death as the next part he was going to play’: Gregory Doran on life after the death of his husband
- Ampleforth Abbey: How an iconic architect somehow blended Gothic Revival, Arts-and-Crafts and Modernism with clarity, simplicity and spatial coherence
April 18th
- One of Ireland's prettiest villages, transformed by a billionaire who made it his labour of love, and now the entire place is up for sale
- Rooting for you: The many merits of the valerian
- A window on the wild: The best of British wildlife photography
- The theatrical-inspired London hotel suite that I would break a leg to stay in again
- Mount Congreve: The exquisite Irish garden on an unimaginable scale
April 17th
- A gorgeous cottage for sale in the heart of the village where 'Downton Abbey' was filmed
- Marine mammals reign supreme in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 17, 2026
- 'The best letters feel necessary, as though the writer couldn’t not write them': Shaun Usher opens the envelope on 13 years of Letters Live
- Stop being led astray by red herrings — here is what the fish is really like
- The keys to the kingdom
- An exquisite home just outside Bath with a history that touches on Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, Jack the Ripper and the invention of the flushing loo
- A quick lunch with Paddle 655, the man who bought the world's most expensive egg
April 16th
- A Victorian stable block that became a fun-filled (and award-winning) family home in one of the leafiest parts of London
- Coasts and counties in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 16, 2026
- Is now the time to buy a country house? Strutt & Parker's experts join the Country Life Podcast
- Alan Titchmarsh: The thrill of raising a plant from a speck of dust or a green leaf can only be learned first-hand
- How the founders of Weaver Green turned a Victorian cricket pavilion into the perfect off-grid escape
- How many seamen does it take to move a Rolls-Royce and a Land Rover from a royal yacht?
- A breathtaking setting, chic design and impeccable green credentials in this home on the Isle of Skye
- ‘Vandalised, disembowelled and dismembered’: Artist Jack Milroy gives books a brutal treatment with beautiful results
April 15th
- Theft, damage, violence and crumbling fabric: The plight of Britain's churches is only getting worse
- Peck peck: It's the Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 15, 2026
- The carnival barker bush pilots that bring the world's oldest desert to life
- 'You don't want to be cast out of Car Park One, do you? A snob's guide to Royal Ascot picnics
- The lunch menu is where it's at
- Reader event report: An eye to the future at Daylesford
April 14th
- It's sink or swim in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 14, 2026
- A brush with greatness: If you only buy one hairbrush, make it this one
- The Bannerman's Somerset home is the best of both worlds
- Country Life April 15, 2026
- Giles Kime: What the perplexing language used to describe modern interior design actually means
- One of Primrose Hill’s best houses is on sale for £6.35 million
April 13th
- Whose line is that? The Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 13, 2026
- Bringing home the bison: The lords looking after the UK's largest land mammal
- A Suffolk farmhouse that wears its centuries of history on its sleeve — until you get to the pool and party barn
- A house lost, a landscape reborn: The story of Worsley New Hall
- What is everyone talking about this week: How to get rid of the foxes on your roof?
April 12th
- Lexus RX500H: Still leading the way after all these years
- The calm, rare country dog once on the brink of extinction
- Anyone for tennis? Five houses for sale where the court is king
- From coast to coast: Why seaside foraging is in our blood
- Victoria and Albert at Burghley House: The royal visit that set the mould, and helped stave off revolution
April 11th
- A country home in Suffolk with 6,000sq ft, 55 acres and a wonderfully serene swimming pool
- The chalky figures festooning our landscape might be a mystery, but they delight us nonetheless
- ‘I have no concept of anyone who's like me. Now, that's either because I'm such an egomaniac that I am sort of completely self obsessed, or … because I haven’t watched enough films’: Monty Don’s consuming passions
- Storfjord Hotel review: A Scandi fantasy that's spitting distance from a distinctive-looking Art Nouveau fishing town
April 10th
- The sound of centuries: Britain's last bellfounders
- Steven Spielberg directs the Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 10, 2026
- Specs in the city: You shouldn't underestimate the transformative effect of bespoke glasses — and this London shop crafted some for Amelia Earhart
- 'It soothed the most vicious of hangovers, the only possible justification for that ghastly thing called brunch': Tom Parker Bowles talks eggs Benedict
- How retrofitting your country house could save you more than £50,000 a year — even if it’s listed
April 9th
- An impeccably restored country house with prime views over Constable country
- A is for apples, Anne Hathaway and Antarctica in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, 9 April, 2026
- Pretty little things: How the double primrose continues to hold us in its thrall
- A tourist tax is a nice idea, but it is not an answer to a cultural crisis
- The revival of interest in folk art is fueling a new fascination with the art of decorating wagons
April 8th
- Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take you to the Country Life Quiz of the Day, 8 April, 2026
- Le Logis and Floréal: The houses were intended to be ‘humble and enriched by vegetation’. They are just that
- Pamela Goodman: Don't mess with the wind, else it might just blow your car doors off
- 'Who wouldn’t want a full head of hair like Paul Anthony Kelly as JFK Jr in "Love Story"?': A snob's guide to hair transplants
- Build your own Bond villain's lair with the best views in Guernsey
April 7th
- The world has gone Lilliputian: The 21st-century renaissance of the dolls' house
- The bird is the word in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, 7 April, 2026
- Is there anything more sensuous than the little sigh that escapes when you give the atomiser a squeeze? Where perfumes are concerned, the scent itself is only a part of the story
- Viking hats, natural wines and messy lunches, with Leonie Cooper
- Country Life April 8, 2026
- 'When we bought it, some friends rudely joked that it was so small, we’d never need to downsize': Hugh Petter on his first house in the country
April 6th
- Stout and about: Why is everyone ordering a pint of Guinness?
- 'Functional, beautifully crafted — and something genuinely unique': A sanctuary from the world in Sussex
- The owners of this Palladian masterpiece amassed an enviable collection of exotic plants before it all burned to the ground
- What is everyone talking about this week: Walk more slowly, will you?
April 5th
- These French hounds have led the hunt for thousands of years — here’s why
- Five heavenly rectories for sale across Britain
- A journey to NASA’s headquarters to mark the first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years
- Inside the glorious studio-houses of 19th century London
April 4th
- A majestic 17th century home in Cornwall, just down the lane from a hopelessly idyllic riverside village
- ‘I try to offset that sense of boring normality by playing bass in a punk rock band with Robert Peston and Ed Balls’: John Wilson’s consuming passions
- Hôtel Byblos review: The headline-making Saint-Tropez hotel that was built to impress Brigitte Bardot
- 'People are astounded that such a biodiverse haven exists here': The garden squares that are the hidden lungs of London
- 'It's not nature being a pain; all of the problems we have with pests and diseases are because of us': The trailblazing gardener who's creating a 'food forest' in Devon
April 3rd
- All hail the egg! The most innovative eggs in London — and how to make some of them at home this Easter
- James May on the M1: BMW's best-ever bad car
- Burford Brown eggs have become a household name, but what of the hens who lay them?
- 'This feels like a rare moment when long-term value can genuinely be unlocked': Is now the time to buy in the country property market?
April 2nd
- Picturesque, pristine and paparazzi-proof: One of the most celebrated homes in the Caribbean is on the market
- The 2026 Country Life Easter Quiz: Chocolate eggs, country music and Handel versus Lloyd-Webber versus Monty Python
- 'Ugly, pointless and potentially lethal': Why dead hedges are a gardening fad too far
- 'Sorry, I can't reply to your email right now, I'm drifting a McLaren in Finland'
- What do you get when you cross classic English country house style with a French château kitchen?
- Six Thames-side homes where you can watch the Boat Race without even getting out of your pyjamas
- Where to find the Easter eggs hidden inside this week's issue of Country Life
- Celebrating the superwomen who've shaped the world of design
April 1st
- War with emus, washing lions and flying penguins. Find out what's true and what's an April Fool in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 1
- Banish all thoughts of Mykonos, this is the Greek island you should visit this summer
- A snob's guide to out of office messages
- The risk of taxing our built heritage out of existence is all too real
- Reader event: A rare glimpse into the world of Elizabeth Gage