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September 2020 Archive

90 articles

30 September
How to make perfect sloe gin
Cheddar Gorge and The Mendips AONB: The landscape that inspired ancient cave painters, William Blake and a thousand magnificent photographs
A list of England's 50 best cities for families that misses the mark — but still makes for fascinating reading
Country Life 30 September 2020
29 September
The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: The ultimate face mask, salvation for bored dogs and saving the world, one coffee capsule at a time
A rare chance to buy one of the finest houses in Chipping Campden, complete with 'lost' attic rooms ripe for rediscovery
Jason Goodwin: My son built a boat, and now we'll live like millionaires
28 September
Q&A: Everything you need to know about buying property in the Cotswolds
Where I work: Ed Chamberlin, sports broadcaster
A beguiling stone-built Gloucestershire house set in almost 150 acres of spectacular Cotswold countryside
My Favourite Painting: Deborah Swallow
27 September
Five wonderful country houses for sale, as seen in Country Life
Charles Quest-Ritson: English gardens are the envy of the world, but the countryside is even greater
West Highland Terriers: The dogs that are clever, funny and inquisitive, with an irresistibly smiley demeanour and a skip in their step
The Summerhouse at Grimsthorpe Castle, built by Sir John Vanbrugh, restored as a true labour of love
26 September
Six utterly gorgeous Cotswolds properties for sale at every budget, from £425,000 to £2.5 million
Curious Questions: How did a car-mad racing driver come to invent the speed camera?
11 wonderful things to enjoy in the countryside without paying a penny
Monty Don: The point of gardening? It's to find solace, to be happy, to make beauty, have fun and muck about. How you do it doesn't matter.
25 September
A Drink for All Seasons: The world's prettiest gin bottle, plus four more gins ideal for Autumn
An idyllic Cotswolds farm looking for new owners for the first time in a century
In Focus: Wood engraving, the peculiarly British artform that's 'the perfect medium for the times we are living through'
24 September
St Peter's, Lowick: A 'hidden masterpiece' of a church that boasts one of the finest alabaster tombs in England
An immaculate and charming Cotswolds home with a picture-perfect poolhouse that brings a little touch of Tuscany
How to make Shaun Rankin's award-winning treacle tart
23 September
The Suffolk Coast AONB: A landscape shaped by Man and Nature, in peace and in power
An eight-bedroom, 17,000sq ft Italianate mansion for sale at just £400,000 — and yes, there is a catch...
Country Life 23 September 2020
22 September
Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Defying the end of summer, a clock that doesn't tick and a dinner party in a box (N.B. dinner not included)
Charm, space and 1,000 years of history as one of the oldest homes in Britain comes up for sale
Three blissful homes for sale with truly extraordinary gardens
21 September
Nine new interiors ideas for Autumn, from lovely lamps to a fresh take on William Morris
Curious Questions: Was there a real Granny Smith who first cultivated the apple that bears her name?
My Favourite Painting: Norman Hammond
20 September
A home with the 'finest Georgian interior in Suffolk', with walled garden, pool and its own air strip
Alan Titchmarsh: 'Gardeners always think that next year will be so much better than last year; farmers always fear it will be worse'
Curious Questions: Why do we all love tortoises?
How Edwardian architecture changed through the words and pictures of Country Life
19 September
Ponden Hall: The house that inspired Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights comes up for sale
A weekend in Sherborne, Dorset: What to do, where to eat, where to stay
'The Spitfire made everyone who sat in the aircraft’s tiny cockpit feel great, feel godly': A eulogy to the Spitfire, 80 years on from its Finest Hour
18 September
An idyllic Suffolk rectory with walled garden, croquet lawn and full of 18th century charm
In Focus: The Anglo-German pacifist-turned-war artist who famously chronicled Dunkirk — despite not being there
17 September
Back on the river at last: 'I start to rediscover muscles in my back I had forgotten existed'
10 grand homes for sale in France, including a spectacular 17th century chateau
Under the dome: The Willow Tree restaurant's innovative approach to post-coronavirus dining
16 September
The strange case of the blonde hedgehogs of Alderney
An Oxfordshire mansion that's been a much-loved family home over three generations and five decades
Country Life 16 September 2020
15 September
The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Back to university special, featuring eight creative ways to blow through your student loans
Carla Carlisle's A to Z of uncertain times: 'Never talk about money to those who have much more or much less than you'
14 September
Focus/20: Design without frontiers
13 September
20 of the best places in England to live if you've a one-or-two day-a-week commute
How to grow squash: What to plant, where to plant it and the advice that is 'gardening gold, pure and simple'
Scottie Dogs: Everything you need to know about the wise, brave and sporting Scottish Terrier
The Fraser Mortuary Chapel, a grand monument that's 'one of the most splendid in Britain'
12 September
Curious Questions: How did 'God Save The Queen' become Britain's National Anthem?
Bere Mill: The riverside gardens in Hampshire created in as natural and as sensitive a way as possible
11 September
A Drink for All Seasons: One man's mission to create a better non-alcoholic wine, by a self-confessed 'liquid Willy Wonka'
In Focus: The French collection of the extraordinary Wilhelm Hansen, Monet and Manet to 'a wall-full of Pissarros'
10 September
Craigievar Castle, a Scottish castle full of tales of warriors and ghosts
A legendary British novelist's Suffolk retreat comes up for sale, including the thatched studio where he wrote
How to make perfect porridge
9 September
Four summits, 12 miles, 5,000ft of climbing — and one unforgettable day in Snowdonia
Five houses that'll make you want to leave London and head into the countryside
Keep your eyes peeled for badgers, foxes, martens and more this autumn
Country Life 9 September 2020
8 September
The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Tea for one, gin for anyone, and the solution for a ponging pooch
How St James's went from London's 'receptacle for offal and cinders' to its prettiest little city centre village
Rosie and Jim: 'Why was I always so busy? How did I cope when I wasn’t busy at all?'
7 September
Why the party room is making a very 21st century comeback
A small country house with grandeur on a large scale, and truly spectacular gardens
My Favourite Painting: Sarah Fletcher
6 September
21 beautiful properties on the market around Britain, as seen in Country Life
Keith Weed: The new president of the RHS gives a tour of his own garden
Hospitalfield: The Victorian creation of a visionary patron of the arts
5 September
The Ashe Park Estate, beloved of Jane Austen in the 18th century, seeks a new owner for the 21st century
Curious Questions: Why do Scots carry sgian-dubhs with their kilts when donning traditional dress?
14 things everyone should know before moving to a village in the country
4 September
A fabulous Hertfordshire country house with a swimming pool that's like stepping back into Ancient Rome
In Focus: The tiny Rembrandt which soared from £650 to almost £15 million in the space of our expert's career
3 September
The Utterly Inessential Shopping List: Cute cups, posh pants, and a secret snooker table
A beautiful houseboat for sale on the Thames, where royalty and pop stars have rubbed shoulders
How to make Montezuma's chocolate and hazelnut cake
2 September
The Solway Firth AONB: 'The most delicious piece of sea-coast to be found within the limits of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales'
'2020 will be seen as the year that the five-day-a-week commute died'
Country Life 2 September 2020
1 September
The rise and fall of the smoking room, from essential feature to long-gone relic
A picture-perfect Georgian home in one of the finest villages in the Home Counties
Jason Goodwin: 'I suspect the Church of England views parish churches as a burden and a nuisance'