
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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An exquisite home just outside Bath with a history that touches on Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, Jack the Ripper and the invention of the flushing loo
Batheaston House's beauty is only surpassed by its fascinating history.
By Toby Keel Published
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A breathtaking setting, chic design and impeccable green credentials in this home on the Isle of Skye
This six-bedroom eco-home brings the best of all worlds at the price of a small London flat.
By Toby Keel Published
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Picturesque, pristine and paparazzi-proof: One of the most celebrated homes in the Caribbean is on the market
The storied Fustic Estate is for sale for the first time in 15 years, with its extraordinary history, unparalleled design and an iconic swimming pool that simply must be seen. Toby Keel takes a look.
By Toby Keel Published
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Six Thames-side homes where you can watch the Boat Race without even getting out of your pyjamas
The CHANEL J12 Boat Race — aka the annual Oxford vs Cambridge Boat Race — is upon us, and if you lived in one of these places you could watch it all take place without even leaving the house.
By Toby Keel Published
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The craft renaissance, with Giles Kime
Country Life's interiors expert Giles Kime joins James Fisher on the Country Life Podcast to talk about the amazing work being done across Britain — and how those who are doing it are recognised in the Country Life Top 100.
By Toby Keel Published
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The California mansion of one of the greatest entertainers of the 20th century is up for sale
Bing Crosby's family home just outside San Francisco has been totally refurbished and is on the market.
By Toby Keel Published
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Five gorgeous rural homes, from the Algarve to Warwickshire, as seen in Country Life
A breathtakingly pretty Cotswolds cottage is among the joys this week.
By Toby Keel Published
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A breathtaking home created by the man who 'built the most beautiful building in Sweden'
The Grand residence at Kungsholmen is a magnificent home that bears the fingerprints of genius.
By Toby Keel Published
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A 'mini-château' in the hills of Sussex, with pool, cinema and a dedicated sneaker room
Danley Hill is a Sussex country home that's designed as a mini-French château, with a rather unusual addition in one of the rooms.
By Penny Churchill Published
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21 utterly wonderful rural homes for sale, as seen in Country Life
From a Scottish castle to a Sussex cottage, this week's list has something for every taste and budget.
By Toby Keel Published
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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.
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Now pay attention, 007: Q's former home 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.
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