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October 2017 Archive

104 articles

31 October
How to make Michael Caines's curried carrot soup
‘The most beautiful house in Ireland’ is up for sale
30 October
The Turner Twins on trekking to the Green Pole, avoiding disaster and 'fields of plastic stretching for miles'
A stunning sporting and farming property on the Highland fringe
How to carve a Halloween pumpkin
How to put on the ultimate Halloween Feast, from eating eyeballs to drinking blood
My favourite painting: Ross Murray
29 October
Nine stunning houses, including an Edwardian dream home, as seen in Country Life
10 famous country superstitions – and is there any truth in them?
Dog tales: How Coco escaped a dustbin and a ‘kill station’
28 October
Is this the perfect retreat for the country sports enthusiast?
Roast spatchcocked chicken with cavolo nero and pearl-barley risotto
Why we love the gentle and patrician Clumber spaniel
5 ways to create the ideal guest room
27 October
A 22-bedroom country mansion for sale complete with golf course, at the price of a Chiswick semi-detached
The bizarre superstitions that could see you lose out on a dream house – or help you get a bargain
A fascinating house for sale where you can sleep in your very own jail cell
The magic of London’s theatres, encapsulated perfectly by Peter Dazeley and Mark Rylance
26 October
Eight magnificent country gardens, as created by Paul Bangay
A proper working farm for sale with 'one of the best shoots on Exmoor’
The Farlows shooting coat: 'Function comes before fashion'
25 October
Beetroot-crust pizza with pesto, beetroot and mozzarella
Britain's longest-running property saga finally coming to an end: Battersea Power Station to be finished in 2020
Greatest recipes ever: Sam and Sam Clark's chestnut and chorizo soup
How the English won the day at the Battle of Agincourt
Country Life October 25 2017
24 October
How weird and quirky period features can be incorporated into modern living
How to make Frances Quinn’s banoffee tumbler trifle
23 October
Woodside Bay: An Isle of Wight treehouse hideaway with red squirrels, log burner and a hot tub
Suckling pig: The ultimate epicurean mouthful
Dream second homes for less than £500,000
My favourite painting: Guy Goodfellow
22 October
Nine idyllic properties, as seen in the pages of Country Life
Alan Titchmarsh: How to get your kids (or grandchildren) into gardening
Top 10 design dilemmas – solved
The master arrowsmith: ‘Without arrowsmiths, there wouldn’t have been Agincourt’
21 October
Five utterly charming properties which will make you want to live in an Arts-and-Crafts era house
Kinloch Rannoch: A loch-side village with all the Highland essentials – plus its very own Harry Potter station
The days when farming becomes a race against time - and the bliss of that moment when you win
20 October
The childhood home of novelist E. M. Forster goes up for sale
Golf GTI review: Smart, sporty and ever so slightly yobby. It it the perfect car?
19 October
Recipe: Thomasina Miers’s sweet potato shepherd’s pie
Shropshire’s Baroque masterpiece, with ‘one of the finest interiors in England’, for sale for the first time in half a century
Five things you probably never knew about gin, in honour of 'International Gin and Tonic Day'
18 October
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners are inspiring, funny, uplifting – and shocking
An unbelievably romantic home tucked away in a fairytale wood
Country Life October 18 2017
17 October
How the French impressionists came to fall in love with London
A mansion with glass floor and rooftop garden which a legendary singer once used as a fishing lodge
Tropical fruit and palm trees in deepest Surrey? Why they’re going bananas at Wisley
Hurricane Ophelia causes destruction, travel chaos and a 'blood orange' sun
16 October
London’s 'most light-filled home', which 'rises like a perfectly balanced crystal from the water’s edge'
The Great Storm of October 1987: Stories and pictures from a night that changed Britain
My favourite painting: Richard Dorment
15 October
30 magnificent properties, from picture-perfect cottages to converted windmills
Strand and deliver: Simpson's is back
The Queen’s House, Greenwich: A royal villa of global significance housing a world-class art collection
The piano makers: 'Imagine the most complicated it could be then multiply it by 10'
14 October
The Townhouse, Stratford review: A beautiful old house transformed into a boutique bolt-hole
31 of the most spectacular properties for sale in the world right now
Rory Bremner on Corbyn, Trump, and watching Wimbledon in front of a log fire
Sherlock Holmes hits a milestone – test yourself with the ultimate Sherlock quiz
13 October
Dreamy Cotswold farmhouse complete with excellent equestrian facilities and a party barn
A Cotswolds house with the ultimate big boys' toy: Its own aircraft landing strip
12 October
10 sofas, armchairs and stools that will still look good in decades – not just months
The 10 best restaurants in Yorkshire
The 'New Victoria': How London SW1 has gone from 'Devil's Acre' to the new prime hotspot
Do as the Victorians did – visit Thuringia
11 October
Perfect pork recipes you won’t be able to resist pigging out in over the winter months
Country Life October 11 2017
10 October
The autumnal fruit that makes a questionable home-made liqueur
The splendid farm that has been in the Guinness family for almost 60 years
The Memory Box: An exquisite keepsake made from 100 pieces of timber per square inch
9 October
The glorious Hampshire home built in the style of a French château
The enchanting manor house built from the same stone as Salisbury Cathedral
My favourite painting: Clementine Cecil
8 October
8 stunning properties, as seen in the pages of Country Life
On top of the world: The painstaking, intricate art of globe-making
Why do we all want to live in the countryside?
Boon & Lane: The only British company still producing handmade hat blocks
7 October
Houses with libraries so lovely you’ll feel positively bookish
Vienna: The mini-break that oozes old-time glamour
Top 10 driving songs: Country Life's road trip playlist
Stanford Hall, Leicestershire: A vibrant estate playing an active role in the world around it
6 October
The 10 things we love most about Autumn
The impressive estate that the 1991 Grand National winner called home
Early bird Christmas tips – the things you need to think about now
5 October
At home with Uncle Monty: Design cues from the Withnail and I icon
Former MoD rehabilitation centre is up for sale
Crete's Blue Palace hotel: A getaway with a 'Polaroid-perfect view around every corner'
4 October
How to make chocolate bundt cake with salted caramel icing
A stunning estate with a castle, farmhouse and thousands of acres of sporting rights just off the M4
Country Life October 4 2017
3 October
Charles Spencer on history, Jane Fonda and being 'up to my **** in alligators'
The house where they took a risk on a young architect named Edwin Lutyens
Musk Roses: Beautiful flowers, and the 'sweetest smell in the air' by far
2 October
Britain's 100 best Railway Stations: Simon Jenkins on the gateways to our railways
The 'best house in the world' comes to the market
My favourite painting: Lucinda Compton
1 October
Pumpkin and Butternut Squash soup recipe
11 unbelievably beautiful houses, as seen in the pages of Country Life
The saving of Mount Grace Priory: A ruin revived in Arts-and-Crafts style
Wild mushrooms: Picking the good, avoiding the bad... and steering clear of the hallucinogenic
The wheelwrights who’ve been in the business for 700 years – and who work for The Queen