By
Agnes Stamp
published
This week in Country Life we travel to Coburg and visit the renovated royal castle, we admire Britain's ravishing rivers, we unearth the stories behind some of the English language’s most eccentric phrases and we get creative in the kitchen with carrots.
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Country-house treasures: Echoes of a childhood, scratched in glass at Stedcombe HouseGraffiti scrawled by a 12-year-old boy in 1788 starts a new series on the lesser-known treasures of our great country homes.
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Affordable, sustainable, rural: How a group of volunteers embarrassed the government and built some of the best new homes in the countryHazelmead has won almost every RIBA award going. The development on the outskirts of Bridport might be a springboard for a rural housing revolution, much like the Arts-and-Crafts movement more than a century ago.
