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Everything you need to know about Hampstead: The real star of 'Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy'
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British racing driver and F1 commentator Jamie Chadwick’s consuming passions
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Prophet, playboy, and provocateur: How meeting Peter Beard changed my life
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Property
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This elegant Greek villa offers would-be buyers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to live in the shadow of the Acropolis
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Six charming homes up for sale, including one dubbed 'one of the most picturesque in Dorset', as seen in Country Life
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A Buckinghamshire mansion built for the speech therapist who set Churchill on his path to greatness
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An idyllic Hampstead mansion whose price has risen nine times faster than inflation — and it's not hard to see why
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Some of Scotland's most beautiful churches are being sold off for as little as £40,000 — but a word of warning before you take the plunge
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Inside the £28 million mansion designed to 'shake things up' and 're-define the English country house of the 21st century'
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In search of the perfect comfy armchair
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Reader Event: Designing spaces that feel like home
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The Country Life Top 100 architects, interior designers, garden designers, landscape designers and country house specialists in Britain
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The best country house specialists in Britain, from stonemasons and joiners to builders and paint specialists
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The best interior designers in Britain
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All the new entries in the Country Life Top 100 for 2025
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The Country Life Top 100 2025: A triumph of timelessness, substance and longevity over throwaway style
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The timeless elegance of English country house style, with Guy Goodfellow and Steven Rodel
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LIFE & STYLE
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Chalet Machapuchare: Does France's best ski chalet live up to its reputation?
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Dawn Chorus: The train line in Yorkshire named as one of the world's top things to do in 2025
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There's no place like home: How animals find their way back to their owners is a mystery we are still trying to solve
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Food with a pinch of salt: The crops we can harvest from the sea
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White-tailed eagles could soon soar free in southern England
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Britain's whale boom and and the predator that's far scarier than a great white shark, with wildlife cinematographer Dan Abbott
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An expert guide to growing plants from seed
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The best rhododendron and azalea gardens in Britain
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Great Comp: The blissful garden flooded with rhododendrons and azaleas that's just beyond the M25
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The best garden and landscape designers in Britain
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'I'm the expert who wrote the RHS's guide to roses — here's why pruning them right now is almost certainly a terrible mistake'
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Forsythia: The spring flower that's a ray of sunshine — and a foolproof option for novice gardeners
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ART & CULTURE
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Go Dutch: Understanding the Duke of Wellington’s passion for Dutch art and how to view his collection
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Victor Hugo, France's greatest novelist, was also a talented artist — and now his 'rarely seen' illustrations are on display at the RA
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Philip Treacy, Gucci and Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, take centre stage at Chatsworth's latest floral-inspired exhibition
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Lady Jane Grey: How the Nine Day Queen lost her head, but found her face
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How to cruise in the wake of Mark Twain on the great Mississippi River of the American South
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From party island to arty island, Princess Margaret's private Mustique haunt announces burgeoning arts programme
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‘It is as real and lasting as any other relationship I know of’: Everything you need to know about Venice in time for the 2025 Biennale Architettura
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The Barnsdale in Rutland: Is this the UK’s most dog-friendly hotel?
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Dawn Chorus: Heathrow gives its VIP terminal a facelift and King Charles’s Land Rover Defender comes up for sale
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Food & Drink
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'For here is pure noodle nirvana': How to make Tom Parker Bowles's favourite Thai soup
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Gill Meller's recipe for wild garlic pesto
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Sarson's malt vinegar is the best British condiment to pair with chips — and we won't hear otherwise
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'We can grow in four acres what would require 800 to 1,000 acres in conventional farming'
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Kendal Mint Cake: The happy accident that fuelled the first ascent of Everest
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How to make an ethereal-sounding seafood, spinach and asparagus puff-pastry cloud
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How to make a bay and vanilla crème brûlée custard tart
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