Features Archive | October 2025

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October 31st
- Dream of revolution inside the 18th-century villa once occupied by Napoleon's French troops
- 'The King of Hell was fat from gorging on souls and he expelled some more from his bowels': The many guises of the Devil Antiquity to present day
- 'My sister Catherine shares a love of bees and has a few hives herself': James Middleton, Jamie Oliver and Sir David Beckham on the pleasures of harvesting your own honey
- May the force be with you if you move into this London apartment block that Obi-Wan Kenobi (and Cher) once lived in
- Barbecue it like Beckham: The 'lamb man' who taught David Beckham about fire cooking
October 30th
- 125 glorious acres of Elizabethan elegance for sale in Cheshire that comes with a moat
- Take a bough: How — and why — you should plant a mature tree
- How do you make a 300-year-old Baronial castle fit for modern-day living?
- Look around this James Bond-themed house for sale in Nottinghamshire and release your inner MI6 agent
- A grand milestone: Country Life's Mark Hedges celebrates a record-breaking 1,000 issues as editor-in-chief
October 29th
- The eclectic New York townhouse that Lily Allen sings about in her new, headline-making album is for sale
- Meet the man who makes David Beckham's Land Rover Defenders
- The Scottish survival experience, beloved by Sir David Beckham, Ian Wright and heavyweight CEOs, that's all about learning to appreciate the dizzying brilliance of the natural world again
- Athena: This Government must open its eyes to the contribution that heritage and culture can make to our economy
- ‘A significant number of the little blighters can add up, can’t it?’: Sophia Money Coutts on how much — or little — to spend on your godchildren’s Christmas presents
- 'Seeing the work that people are doing all around the world has given me hope for the future': The young naturalist who is one of David Beckham's countryside champions
October 28th
- This Suffolk home is a perfect escape from the world and it comes with its own stretch of river and 20 acres
- The trench coat is a British fashion icon that’s been worn by everyone from brave World War soldiers to Sex and the City’s Samantha Jones
- 1,000 issues and counting: Editor-in-chief Mark Hedges on the Country Life Podcast
- Country Life 29 October 2025
- ‘My football made me, my countryside saved me’: Vinnie Jones on going from the rough and tumble of the football pitch to the sanctuary of his West Sussex estate
- The quaint Alpine village that got taken over by The Beatles
- The rapid decline of our local abattoirs means we can no longer claim to be a country with leading animal welfare standards
October 27th
- A portrait featuring a string of pearls stolen in one of Britain’s most notorious jewellery heists is going under the hammer
- The ultimate treehouse escape, where you can have a sauna and hot tub 12 metres above the forest floor, is for sale in Dorset
- Poppy Okotcha, the model turned gardener who is one of David Beckham's countryside champions
- The mysterious case of Country Life's cursed photographs and other spooky stories from our archive
- What is everyone talking about this week? How to be a patriot
October 26th
- Cocker spaniels: The indefatigable dog breed with medieval lineage that stole David Beckham’s heart
- 20 breathtaking country homes for sale, as seen in Country Life
- 'The view changes with the seasons, so there’s always something new to see': David Beckham on one of his favourite sights in the Cotswolds
- 'A bluff, honest man in the trappings of greatness': The extraordinary story of the Foundling Hospital, and the sailor who saved the abandoned children of London
October 25th
- The elegant country home of a motor racing daredevil who drove round the world in a 1936 Bentley and crashed a Range Rover into his own front porch
- ‘In my twenties I was asked by a newspaper to test out an orgasm machine. I said, "Absolutely"’: Elizabeth Day on her early career in journalism and consuming passions
- Meet David Beckham's milliner, the man who's created hats using everything from flora and fauna, to car parts and buckets
- London has long been the private members’ club capital of the world, but New York is finally catching up. Here are five of the best
- 'I bought it without telling Victoria. She didn’t want another project... I sat her down, gave her a vodka and tonic and told her what I’d done': David Beckham tells Alan Titchmarsh about his Cotswolds home and garden
October 24th
- In the footsteps of the Beckhams: Five beautiful homes in Manchester, Miami, Madrid, London and the Cotswolds
- David Beckham and Tom Parker Bowles whip up one of the guest editor's favourite childhood meals
- 'One of the truly great gardens of the world' is at risk of having its vistas and tranquility blighted forever
October 23rd
- The wisteria clad cottage where Noël Coward and Ivor Novello held court at the height of their fame
- How Harper Beckham created the perfect gardener's birthday present for her father's 50th — with a little help from David Austin Roses
- Oh, my gourd, it’s Hallowe’en: How best to decorate your home with pumpkins, squashes and more
- A Cotswolds property that's the strangest mix of old and new we've ever seen... and yet somehow, it all works
- 'Sir David Beckham came to see our cattle a couple of years ago. He was fascinated': The stockman at the Glympton Estate
October 22nd
- Ashford Castle review: The fantastic five-star hotel in Ireland that the Guinness family once used to show off their wealth and influence
- If these jackets could talk
- A country house near Windsor that could be straight from the pages of a Jilly Cooper novel
- Rebecca Regis Property Search Ltd
- Where is 'The Traitors' filmed? Inside the Scottish castle sold via the pages of Country Life three times for an unbelievable amount
- Sophia Money-Coutts: I can’t believe I’m saying this, but should dogs really be allowed in posh hotels?
- 'It makes me feel as if I’ve done a good job as a father and that I did the right thing in wanting us to have a house here': David Beckham on why the countryside matters so much to him and his family
October 21st
- The factory that once fuelled the Victorians' insatiable appetite for pianos has become a set of gorgeous, characterful apartments
- Stefan Pitman: Making great country houses cost less to heat than a suburban semi
- What’s better than a date with Ali MacGraw? Tending to your waxed jacket, according to Steve McQueen
- Our never-ending interest in magic and the occult, from Elizabethan England to Donald Trump's presidency
- What £1 million buys you across Britain, from a Cornish cottage to a miniature castle in the Highlands
- England and the 1966 World Cup — which was stolen and later recovered by a dog called Pickles
October 20th
- Dire Straits' bassist John Illsley reveals why he swapped the recording studio for the art studio — and his consuming passions
- The Hampshire home of a Victoria Cross-winning British WWI ace fighter pilot is for sale, with lake, chapel and some of the best fishing rights in England
- The Henry VII-era house that was dismantled piece by piece and shipped to the USA
- ‘The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago; the second best time is now'
October 19th
- At the Bonneville Salt Flats, the only currency is speed
- The Irish red and white setter: The rare beauty brought back from the brink
- Five superb country homes, from under £1 million to £20 million, as seen in Country Life
- The curious case of Cecil Beaton and Madame X
- The great house that is 'one of the most compelling products of Britain’s 18th-century love affair with Antiquity'
October 18th
- Rock stars and the country house: Liam Gallagher's life in the Cotswolds is in the finest tradition of music A-listers, from The Beatles to Beyoncé
- ‘Activities are of the derring-do variety, and the weather is unreliable year round, so it’s useful to be a good sport’: A memorable road trip to the tidal island in Scotland where J. M. Barrie liked to holiday
- This watch was worn by the first woman to swim the English Channel, changing the horological world forever. Now it's going under the hammer
- Eccentric, awe-inspiring and a home-from-home for literary giants: Why the London Library is an institution like no other
- A five minute guide to Wayne Thiebaud — the artist who 'reinvented still life as a genre and found fame in the process'
- 'You could walk round it every day and always notice something new': A private tour of the garden of multiple Chelsea gold medallist John Massey
October 17th
- ‘Once upon a time they covered an area the size of Ireland’: The restoration of Britain’s native oyster reefs is shaping future marine projects around the world
- Life on Portugal's Coast of Kings, where Ian Fleming met the triple-agent whose gambling inspired 'Casino Royale'
- The UK’s finest High Streets and the country homes worth moving for, by Knight Frank's experts
- 'If your boyfriend makes carbonara with pancetta or bacon, break up': Tom Parker Bowles on how to make a classic carbonara
- An extraordinary Italian palazzo built in the heart of Oxfordshire is up for sale at £16 million
- What is everyone talking about this week: Does Britain need its own Met Gala?
October 16th
- A bum deal on a bog-standard property? The former public conveniences being sold off for a song
- Alan Titchmarsh: 15 years ago we planted a hedge — today, it's 10ft tall, 6ft deep and a joy throughout the year. Here's how we did it
- At the Snowdon Summer School, the future of design lies in the traditions of the past
- A castle for sale just down the road from Gleneagles, where everyone from George VI to a farmer and his pigs once roamed the grand halls
- Five émigré artists who greatly enriched Britain's intellectual and creative scenes
October 15th
- Here is where to stay on the ancient stretch of Italian coastline that people in the know are calling 'the new Amalfi'
- Nôtre-Dame: An over-crowded Parisian triumph
- Sophia Money-Coutts: My family WhatsApp is already banging on about Christmas arrangements. Can I leave the group?
- A handy five minute guide to Frieze — and the things you really don’t want to miss
October 14th
- Five homes with their own orchards that will be the apple of your eye (almost literally)
- The secret life of seeds: The little wonders that sustain all life on Earth
- The lives, wild parties and country houses of the Guinness family: Adrian Tinniswood on the Country Life Podcast
- Vested interest: The history of the waistcoat
- A beautiful Victorian vicarage that was home to one of the Cadbury family heiresses is on the market
- Do not be afraid of this bodysnatching fungi that lives on a lawn in Scotland
October 13th
- It's a perfect storm for the revival of eclecticism, and we're in the middle of it
- An outrageously opulent mansion in London's answer to Beverly Hills, with a gym that 'wouldn't look out of place in a 7* hotel'
- Temperate rainforests are being planted all over Britain — what are they and why do we need them?
- Nine of Britain's most beautiful and awe-inspiring painted ceilings from the Country Life archive
- What is everyone talking about this week? Forget British wine, British olive oil is the next pot of gold
October 12th
- The Glovebox: The fastest coffee shop on four wheels
- The Lancashire heeler: A clever, compact and very rare terrier that was once described as having 'the same value as an ox'
- Six homes with fantastic features, from pools and paddocks to waterside settings, as seen in Country Life
- Claws for thought: The world leading crustacean conservation charity that is saving our lobsters
- West Wycombe Park: The neo-classical mansion of the man smeared as a convenor of orgies, satanic rites, and a leading light of the notorious Hellfire Club
October 11th
- Queen Victoria's chaplain's house on the Isle of Wight is for sale, and it's a riot of colour, charm and joy
- ‘One remembers not to give the Queen a thump of joyful friendliness’: Remembering Norman Parkinson — revolutionary fashion photographer and Cecil Beaton’s only homegrown rival
- Tim Knox, director of the Royal Collection, charts a century of regal taste
- 'The sight of my semi-comatose teenage son draped like a rag doll over the back of a mule has left its scars': Pamela Goodman on the perils of high altitude hiking
- The arboretum that's been 30 years in the making by a dedicated, passionate family who are dreaming of what it could be in 3,000 years' time
October 10th
- An Art Deco masterpiece with five-bedrooms, a private pool, a cinema, a helipad and the ability to conquer oceans
- The one website about trees and shrubs that everyone needs to know about
- Clare Coghill's indulgent recipe for bacon and Mull Cheddar scones from her debut cookbook
- The elegant 19th century townhouse where JFK and Jackie Kennedy dreamed of the presidency, and made their wish came true
- ‘She was a sort of fairy godmother to Country Life’: Mark Hedges, Tom Parker Bowles, Sophia Money-Coutts and more on the genius of Jilly Cooper
October 9th
- Here is a thatched cottage for sale in the Chilterns that looks like Claudia Winkleman and is owned by Sienna Miller
- ‘One of the most amazing spaces in London’: Two Hogarth murals, inside an 18th century London hospital, are to go on public display for the first time
- For Rita Konig, interior design isn’t only about coherence and comfort — it should be a celebration of stuff
- A heartbreakingly pretty old rectory in the idyllic Cotswolds valley that offers charm, beauty, sophistication and a fast train to London
October 8th
- Furs class travel: The hotels, superyacht designers and airlines setting new standards for pet-friendly travel
- Say goodbye to the traditional ski shop and hello to the 'boot room of the future' — as reimagined by Norman Foster
- Sophia Money-Coutts: A snob's guide to wellies
- The Essex entrepreneur with big plans to eradicate microplastics from our oceans — and he's got the royal seal of approval
October 7th
- A home for sale in one of the most celebrated artists' enclaves in London, where David Hockney sketched and Isadora Duncan danced
- Amanda Owen: The Yorkshire Shepherdess on farming, life, and having tea with her sheep
- Fall the right way: Country Life's shopping guide to the very best this autumn
- What to expect when you start collecting
- Agromenes: Evolution, not revolution, is what we need for a green and sustainable future
October 6th
- A gorgeous country estate that comes with a lifestyle business, a 17th-century ice house and some of the best fishing rights in Britain
- How the full moons got their names, including tomorrow's rare Harvest supermoon
- The unfortunate case of the Tudor estate that was bombed, torn apart for firewood and then buried underneath a golf course
- What is everyone talking about this week: The most beautiful city in Britain, according to AI
October 5th
- The English bull terrier is mischief meets muscle
- If the electric-vehicle revolution is anything like the Lotus Emeya, we needn't be so worried
- 20 country homes for sale, from Somerset to Scotland, as seen in Country Life
- 'Each of my active ancestors had the good sense and taste to purchase or commission the outstanding work of their time': Meet the collecting dynasties
- Belmont House: The 'jewel in Kent’s celebrated crown', created by a decorated soldier who was sent to prison and premature death by false accusations
October 4th
- Splendid isolation overlooking one of Britain's tiniest towns, with a Thomas the Tank Engine-style railway
- If I could turn back time: Is your vintage timepiece the real deal? Yes — if you buy it directly from this watch brand
- How American political refugees, economic migrants and devoted Anglophiles are transforming London
- The new rat-pack: the Gen-Z team saving shearwaters and killing invasive species on a remote island in the Irish sea
- 'Nature's loo roll': Verbascum, one of the most curious — and useful — plants you'll find in an English country garden
October 3rd
- Farmhouse kitchens done right at these five beautiful country houses across Britain
- The art fairs and exhibitions bringing colour to this autumn
- Raising the steaks: Which native animal produces the best beef?
- Ella Fitzgerald's Cote d'Azur suite is now a magnificent apartment in the Art Deco hotel where Churchill, Coco Chanel and Hemingway once lived the high life
- These boots were made for walking (up Mount Everest, 101 years ago): How identical twin brothers plan to test George Mallory's shoes against modern-day mountaineering kit
October 2nd
- A Norman Keep and castle for sale in the rolling hills of the Lake District, which was once owned by Richard II
- 'There is only a handful of fruit trees I’d grow for their non-edible charms — quince is one'
- Diversity in style and diversity in location: London's best art is all around us
- This country estate is peaceful, spacious and elegant... just please don't ask us how to pronounce it
- ‘Sex, Money, Race, Religion’: Unlikely pair Philharmonia Orchestra and Gilbert & George collaborate on one-off concert
October 1st
- Sophia Money-Coutts: 'Strictly Come Dancing' is back and I hate it. Do I have to pretend otherwise for the next three months?
- Wedgwood's craftspeople produce objects that dignify our lives daily in countless ways — here's hoping that better times lie ahead
- 'Nowadays, little separates the literati from the glitterati': Britain's literary festivals are this season's hot tickets