
Toby Keel
Toby Keel is Country Life's Digital Director, and has been running the website and social media channels since 2016. A former sports journalist, he writes about property, cars, lifestyle, travel, nature and more.
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'A work of art': The wisteria-clad New York home where Andy Warhol hung out with Cher
Chic has never looked so shabby, nor shabby so chic.
By Toby Keel Published
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A 20-bedroom castle that's just been sold for £450,000 after an eight-year, £3 million salvation project
Ribbesford House, a 16th century house, is a remarkable cautionary tale about the ups and downs of the world of property.
By Toby Keel Published
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A beautiful Georgian house that spent three centuries in the Queen Mother's family, set in 'the most charming hamlet in Northumberland'
The Bowes-Lyon family built this house almost 200 years before their most famous member — Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon — married into the Royal Family.
By Penny Churchill Published
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A 1970s rock god's former home for sale, and it still has the decor from his Top of the Pops heyday
The former home of legendary Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour is on the market — and it's a mad nostalgia trip in all sorts of ways.
By Toby Keel Published
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Borders, identity, and the truth about Cornish independence, with Richard Collett
Richard Collett has spent years travelling Britain to discover what our borders say about us. He joins James Fisher on the Country Life Podcast.
By Toby Keel Published
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Now pay attention, 007: Q's country house in Sussex is up for sale
The actor Desmond Llewelyn — the man who played Q in 17 different James Bond films — lived in this beautiful country home... and it's a place entirely free of high-tech trickery.
By Toby Keel Published
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Five grand and impressive country mansions, as seen in Country Life
Our magnificent selection of properties to come to the market through Country Life this week includes a 500-year-old home that's been brought into the 21st century in grand style.
By Toby Keel Published
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A £15 million villa on an island that's an A-lister's playground, with its own private outdoor cinema
This sprawling property in Mallorca is almost unbearably chic — just like the island itself.
By Toby Keel Published
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This Georgian church is now a gorgeous country home — and it was designed by a student of Sir John Soane
Greystead Old Church is an object lesson in how good a converted church can become as a place to live. Julie Harding takes a look.
By Julie Harding Published
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One of the last working windmills in Britain is for sale at £350,000
Bardwell Cottage and Windmill have been standing in this charming Suffolk village for over two centuries.
By Toby Keel Published
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Colour photographs of Gertrude Jekyll’s garden, rediscovered in the Country Life Archive, offer a rare glimpse of what it looked like at the peak of her fame
In 1997, Country Life published a set of chromatic photographs of Gertrude Jekyll’s Munstead Wood garden that had lain undisturbed in our archive for nearly a century. We have reproduced the pictures, corresponding feature and captions here.
By Country Life Published
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The Suffolk house where two of the greatest women in British history spent their childhood years
The Suffragette leader Millicent Fawcett and Britain's first female doctor, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, grew up in this home in Aldeburgh.
By Toby Keel Published
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22 charming country properties, from £350,000 to £2.5 million, as seen in Country Life
From a glorious mansions to charming cottages — and everything in between — in this week's round-up.
By Toby Keel Published
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This is quite possibly the greatest clifftop house in the world, and it's on the market right now
An utterly breathtaking home in New Zealand is for sale. Take a closer look.
By Toby Keel Published
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A murdered entrepreneur, an iconic London department store, a £1.5 billion makeover, and the quest to create 'the capital’s greatest residential address'
The more you read about Whiteleys — from Queen Victoria and Eliza Dolittle to the tragic tale of its founder — the more surprising it is that nobody has made a film about the place. Yet.
By Julie Harding Published
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Four wildly-different Georgian homes which sum up the appeal of the golden age of property architecture
Think Georgian property and you probably imagine a classic country rectory, but not all 18th century homes come out of the same mould. Julie Harding picks out four wonderful examples for sale that retain their individuality while keeping the best of the Georgian template.
By Julie Harding Published
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A Georgian home with a Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen living room that brings a touch of Hogwarts to one of the greenest parts of London
This fine, six-bedroom home in Blackheath has a living space created by the famed interior designer who once dominated the television schedules.
By Toby Keel Published
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A Somerset country home that unites the best of medieval, Georgian and Victorian under one roof
The Yews has changed many times over the centuries — and seemingly always for the better.
By Toby Keel Published
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Five magical country homes for sale across Britain, as seen in Country Life
From Shropshire to Kent, this wonderful places all came to the market in Country Life this week.
By Toby Keel Published
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A spectacular home with a touch of Downton Abbey about it, standing beside one of the last remaining Saxon churches in Britain
Kirk Hammerton Hall is 250 years old, yet is 900 years newer than the church which stands close by to it in this beautiful Yorkshire village.
By Toby Keel Published
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A Caribbean home with its own nightclub, down the road from a perfect beach and a pre-Columbian castle
Casa Luna is a spectacular home in a village featuring a picture-perfect beach overlooked by a Mayan castle.
By Toby Keel Published
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Alan Carr's new castle is 'a masterpiece of the baronial revival' with 17 bedrooms and its own miniature railway
Ayton Castle is majestic, imposing, graceful, romantic... and the new home of comedian and 'Celebrity Traitors' winner Alan Carr.
By Toby Keel Last updated
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Sir Roger Moore's London pad is on the market
The former home of the most prolific 007 of them all is for sale. Toby Keel takes a look inside.
By Toby Keel Published
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Justine Picardie: Fashion, spies and Elizabeth II's wardrobe, from timeless tweeds to a pair of Marigolds
Justine Picardie joins the Country Life Podcast.
By Toby Keel Published
