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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Rolls-Royce Spectre II: Can you perfect perfection?Do not adjust your screen: the Rolls-Royce Spectre Series II is a dead ringer for the original — but that's a good thing, says Toby Keel.
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Five grand rural homes, from £850,000 to £8,500,000, as seen in Country LifeA converted mill, a cosy West Country farmhouse and an old stone barn given a 1980s-style upgrade are among our featured homes.
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The unlisted 'Elizabethan' manor with a Union Jack rose garden — where Shakespeare might have got marriedUpper Billesley House is a fascinating building in a much-storied part of England; Penny Churchill takes a look.
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Grade I-listed, 48 bedrooms, grounds by Capability Brown: 'The Versailles of Leicestershire' is up for saleStapleford Park in Leicestershire, which was in the same family for 500 years, is seeking another new owner.
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A country house that has one of the great masterpieces of medieval architecture in the back gardenThis modern country house sits right on the River Avon at Warwick Castle.
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What's better than staying in the most sought-after Airbnb? Buying itThis metal box looking over the Sound of Mull is a very special — and hugely popular — Highland escape.
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We're a fan: The tallest surviving windmill in Britain is for sale, with six bedrooms, a cottage and 240 years of historySutton Mill, in the heart of the Norfolk Broads National Park, is a beautiful local landmark that's become a huge home.
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Six country homes, from a Queen Anne house in Derbyshire to 'one of the finest houses in Cheshire', as seen in Country LifeFrom a South Downs mansion to a Devon farmhouse, here is our pick of some of the best homes to come to market via Country Life this week.
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A 19-bedroom home by the sea in Devon for £350,000? There's a catch, of course, but the property market is always full of opportunitiesA flurry of homes have come to the market — whether via auction or conventional sale — which have been raising eyebrows.
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'A garden that dazzles by its colour and orderly perfection': Highnam Court's 30-year labour of loveThe gardens of Highnam Court in Gloucestershire — the home of Roger Head — were unused, eroded, neglected and overgrown 30 years ago. Since then they have undergone a miraculous transformation, says Timothy Mowl. Photographs by Clive Nichols.
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A breathtaking Norwegian lodge tucked into a perfect, unspoilt mountainsideBreathtaking, yes — but at a price. This mountain lodge a couple of hours from Oslo is a fascinating place.
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A 17th century property that was home to one of the great music superstars of the 1970s and 80sChristine McVie, the singer, songwriter and keyboard player who created some of Fleetwood Mac's most famous songs, lived at this wonderful 17th century home in Kent. It's now up for sale, and is still benefitting of the love and attention she poured in to its restoration.
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The corner of an English field that is forever Rupert Brooke's old houseBrilliant, beautiful, iconic, Rupert Brooke is one of the best-remembered of the First World War poets. The childhood home that helped shape his youthful idealism is now up for sale.
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One of the most beautiful Tudor houses in the Cotswolds is on the market for £55,000 — a weekThe Temple Guiting Estate offers country life at its very best — and at a price.
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A Victorian country house in a landscape that has 'all the ingredients of perfection'With elegant proportions, Britain's most northerly vineyard and a striking lakehouse in the grounds, Adderstone House offers a huge amount to buyers.
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Six country homes to inspire your dreams, from £750,000 to £15 millionFrom a four-bedroom thatched cottage in Buckinghamshire at the price of a city flat to an estate of more than 3,000 acres, here's this week's look at the finest homes to come to market through Country Life.
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Spaces of divine beauty: Some of the best church conversions for sale right nowBuying and converting a church is almost always a passion project — and the people who've taken on the job at these homes show just what can be done.
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An Aga so special it inspired the salvation of a magnificent 300-year-old homeThe Moat House in Bedfordshire is immaculate — but if its previous owner hadn't fallen in love with the Aga, it might have remained semi-derelict.
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Six outstanding homes, from an Elizabethan farmhouse to a miniature castle in Sussex, as seen in Country LifeOur round-up of homes to come to the market via Country Life this week includes the work of some of Britain's finest architects.
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'A platform that dignifies the views outwards into the world': Doddington Place's elegant prospect towerA new prospect tower and family memorial forms a stylish addition to the fine Edwardian garden at Doddington Place, Kent, the home of Richard Oldfield and Amicia de Moubray. John Goodall reports.
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Agatha Christie bought and sold homes like she was playing real-life Monopoly — and one of her favourites has come up for saleIn an Art Deco block in the heart of Chelsea, Agatha Christie kept a pied-à-terre for three decades where she wrote several of her most famous works. Today, it's up for sale.
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'She is part of its atmosphere, its memory, and its soul': The bucolic final resting place of Henry VIII's last brideJohn Goodall talks to Elizabeth Ashcombe about the beautiful tomb of Katherine Parr at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire.
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This Cornish manor house with a 700-year history is full of life, colour and flairNansough Manor looks every inch the classic Georgian home from the outside — and within it's a joyously pretty family home.
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A wisteria-clad Cotswolds home with a name that'll put a smile on your face17th century architecture and early-Victorian design flair combine in the beautiful Pud Hill, in a village in the heart of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire.
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