Features Archive | September 2025

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September 15th
- Goodwood Revival 2025: Pictures from the 'F1 of classic car races'
- Sold, singed and sunk: The sorry tale of Normanton Hall
- A Clarkson's Farm of one's own: Five properties with just enough farmland for you and your family, from under £1 million
- What everyone is talking about this week: What is the right way to propose to someone?
September 14th
- Rust-free romance: hire a classic, not the headaches
- Mastiffs: Gentle giants revered by Shakespeare, feared by thieves, adored by families
- Six superb homes, from chocolate box cottages to grand Tudor mansions, as seen in Country Life
- Rare species: Meet the young gardeners destined for greatness
- Fit for a queen: The story of Queen Victoria's state bed at Arundel Castle
September 13th
- A billionaire's thatched cottage is for sale in Surrey, once owned by the oil magnate J. Paul Getty
- (Space) oddities: New David Bowie centre opens at V&A East Storehouse
- Interiors of excellence: all the events and inspiration you can't miss
- Omani tourism is booming and this one-of-a-kind hotel — with exquisite marble swimming pools and dedicated murshid guides — shows why
- What Britain's top garden designers are planting now to create dazzling spring meadows around their homes
September 12th
- Medieval Italian? 19th century French? 16th century German? You're spoilt for choice if you're looking to buy a gorgeous continental castle
- 'The best bulbs are those that give maximum pleasure for minimum effort — and these are the ones which will keep delivering for years'
- ‘You've survived 550 miles with me, how about a few more?’: The NHS doctors who said yes to love while retracing the flight of Bonnie Prince Charlie
- Tom Parker Bowles: The pure poetry of panzanella
- This restoration of a Cliveden garden honours the original vision of Norah Lindsay’s 1930s design
September 11th
- The homes of two 1980s TV icons are both up for sale at the same time
- Keeper’s Cottage at Heckfield Place: When does a hotel not feel like a hotel? When it feels like home
- Living on the edge? A lighthouse for sale on a clifftop on one of the most remote islands in Britain
- 'A phenomenon that has shaped Britain’s landscapes and wildlife for millennia': A five minute guide to mast years
September 10th
- Debo Mitford on her childhood at Asthall Manor, from Nancy's 'coming out' dance to Unity's peach-pinching ways
- Sophia Money-Coutts: What’s the deal with tipping these days, given that literally everything has become more expensive?
- The six best new buildings in the UK right now, in the words of the architects who helped build them
- Alan Titchmarsh is selling his Hampshire home (and the garden that comes with it): Exclusive pictures and interview
September 9th
- A grand country house tucked away within exquisite gardens, four miles from one of Yorkshire's best beaches
- Straw, stables and a bit of s**t: The fragrant story behind one of Hermès's most exclusive perfumes
- Jules Perowne: Where to go in 2026, hotel disasters and podcasting with Richard E. Grant
- 'It was the single most haunting place I have ever been': A voyage to the last major stronghold of the Cathars
- A Lake District escape with views that will make you feel like the king of all you can see
- ‘People would rather buy 20 synthetic jumpers than a woollen one that would last them a lifetime’: The British wool trade today
September 8th
- One of Yorkshire's great houses, burnt to the ground three generations ago, is back on its feet and on the market for the sixth time in a millennium
- The curious world of the penny bun mushroom
- Goodwood Revival and the Scottish sheep farmer who dominated the world of motor racing in 1965
- The Mitford family once called this handsome Cotswolds house a home — and it inspired Nancy's greatest novel
- What everyone is talking about this week: We need to trim school holidays — or give parents a tax break
September 7th
- Bedlington terriers: The rare dog breed that conquered the coal mines and made it to Crufts
- Seven magnificent homes from Cumbria to Devon, as seen in Country Life
- How to make a fig caramel tart with cocoa and almond crust
- 'It is so full of turrets and lofty buildings, spires and towers, it looks not like a town but a city': The glamour of Glamis Castle, from Macbeth to the Queen Mother
September 6th
- The captivating art of the Japanese woodblock
- 'Unquestionably one of the most distinctive and stylish homes in the Cotswolds' is for sale, just across a field from Soho House
- 'Why do I allow the fuchsias in my garden to live on? Because, despite their visual shortcomings, I am a fool for edible pleasure'
- This 300km trail through Sri Lanka's dramatic tea country made the annual 'World's Greatest Places' list. Here's what it's like to hike it
- The best flower borders in Britain, and how they work their magic
September 5th
- 'A world within a world… a community with an identity, a smoothly turning cog in the wheel of royal life': A look behind the stable doors of the Royal Mews
- How shoe designer Penelope Chilvers transformed two adjacent rooms into a spacious kitchen
- The world of super-super prime homes, where £100 million is barely even the starting point
- Some of the city’s finest restaurants are found inside museums. Country Life writers round up the very best
- Elderly Salcombe residents were promised a home for life inside this listed villa — but now the charity it was gifted to want to sell it
September 4th
- Marie Antoinette: How the most fashionable queen in history transformed French style
- Agromenes: Why is our tax money not being spent on British food?
- ‘We couldn’t go around digging holes in existing graveyards for fear of exhuming a real body’: The man who brought The Thursday Murder Club to the big screen
- A 1,000-acre Scottish estate for sale with a 500-year-old tower at its heart
September 3rd
- Gravetye Manor review: The Elizabethan country house hotel surrounded by historic gardens of national importance
- Country-house treasures: Echoes of a childhood, scratched in glass at Stedcombe House
- Affordable, sustainable, rural: How a group of volunteers embarrassed the government and built some of the best new homes in the country
- 'At the time, I wanted to move to Mexico and go into witness protection': What to do when you're stalking someone on Instagram and accidentally like a post from six years ago
- Queen Anne architecture with 21st century flair in a country house that's on the market for the first time in almost 70 years
September 2nd
- A fantastical house where the young Lewis Carroll lived is up for sale, complete with endless curious touches that could have come straight from Wonderland
- The enchanting world of Christian Dior’s gardens
- White-tailed eagles: From 'the greatest wildlife crime imaginable' to Nature's most wonderful comeback story
- A feat of clay: How ceramics have taken on the fine art world
- Queen Charlotte's Ball is proof that young women still want to be debutantes
- Five beautiful country homes which show what can be done with a property that escapes the notice of the Listed Building inspectors
September 1st
- The Manot bed that made it from a Herefordshire attic to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, courtesy of Country Life
- The studio Monty Python used at the height of their fame is up for sale — and it's now an astonishing home in Camden
- Country Life's never-before-published photographs of ‘101 Dalmatians’ author Dodie Smith's London flat
- What everyone is talking about this week: The great porpoise panic