Features Archive | July 2026

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July 25th
- The home of the 'British Oskar Schindler', who saved 669 children from the Nazis, is for sale in Berkshire
- Meet clownish, curious and charming Peggy, Britain's naughtiest dog
- ‘My surname can be an asset, but it can also be a frustration’: Zoë de Givenchy on her famous fashion in-laws and love of Monty Don
- Peak season: Grand Hotel Belvedere and the art of summering at altitude
- On top of the world: The spectacular clifftop garden at Chygurno
July 24th
- A secluded cottage surrounded by a glorious valley, with open fires, ancient beams and a dedicated Lego room
- Think you're the cat's whiskers? See if you can secure a purr-fect score in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 24, 2026
- Caesar came, Caesar saw (the pearls), Caesar conquered: A five-minute guide to Britain's best natural jewel
- Feeling hot hot hot this summer? There's no cooling down with Britain's finest 'chilli-makers'
- As seen on TV: The houses up for sale that starred in everything from 'Rivals' and 'Black Doves' to 'Dad's Army'
- Can you put a price on loving your dog? Yes, it's £10 billion
July 23rd
- 'Typically British, and simply perfect': Dick Strawbridge on his first house in the country
- Prove you're the smartest dog in the pack by taking the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 23, 2026
- 'My dad always said it was the blood of the maid who had been killed. The painting was like having a thriller on the wall': The art that will get your guests talking
- Charles Quest-Ritson: Today’s best young gardeners are well educated, well qualified, and well underpaid. No wonder they're voting with their feet
- Plutocrats, presidents and pioneers: The watch maketh the man — or is it the other way round?
- A Devon retreat with spectacular interiors, a swimming pool and enough green energy that you'll turn a profit on your electricity bill
- Will Hosie: Are the blockbusters of Christopher Nolan the greatest artworks of our time?
July 22nd
- 42 Acres review: The Somerset rewilding retreat where beavers are the VIPs
- The pulpit of the man who brought the Bible to the people — only to be strangled and burnt for his efforts
- Riding a wave: is the tide turning for seaside heritage?
- How many of today's answers do you Christopher Know-lan? Find out in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 22, 2026
July 21st
- The art of the country garden at Daylesford
- A centuries-old cottage for sale in the North Downs where a long-lost Gertrude Jekyll garden was brought back to life
- Do you know your Heracles from your Hercules? Test your knowledge of Greek mythology in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 21, 2026
- The Nottingham kitchen that honours a home's remarkable 19th century resident
- Country Life July 22, 2026
- The Hippie Porsche is the pinnacle of performance and psychedelic power
- Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? The home of an iconic rock band's manager is a little bit of both
- This 100-year library in Oslo is beautiful — but we won't be able to read its books until the year 2114
- The ultimate noisy neighbours: The antisocial squawking seabirds whose screams have been heard in Parliament
July 20th
- Celebrate 'New Prime Minister Day' by taking the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 20, 2026
- A billionaire's housing boom is here — and Lord Lebedev's £25 million home at Hampton Court is on the market just at the right time
- From wet shirts to war-worthy kilts, the costumes of Britain's best-loved dramas are worth a fortune
- 'It contained a hippopotamus, which lived in the Billiards Room': The strange country house that gave way to a crematorium
- What is everyone talking about this week: Yikes! It's school-reunion season...
July 19th
- Sleek like a missile and just as fast: the JCB Hydromax prepares to break new barriers at Bonneville
- This agile dog can follow faint, hours-old scent trails through rugged terrain, but is just as happy cuddling on the sofa
- Six outstanding homes, from a Devon coastal dream to a Highland estate, as seen in Country Life
- When every drop counts: Eight stories to help understand the water that surrounds us
- 'My house will rise again': The promise and its fulfilment of iconic architect Clough Williams-Ellis, and the home he and his wife loved and (almost) lost
July 18th
- 'One of the most private and pristine estates' in the west is for sale — with 1,468 acres, glorious cloisters, and its own 12th-century chapel
- Why our water is going down the drain
- ‘My wife inspired the whole thing’: Michael and Clare Morpurgo on the charity connecting children with the countryside and predestined love
- How to follow the footsteps of The Odyssey in style
- It is like 'rush hour for foxes and badgers' every night: A Sussex garden with timeless views and perfect harmony
July 17th
- The most fascinating bathroom in the world is for sale, with Elizabeth II's signature, a lifetime of photographs and a history of the 20th century on the walls
- Don't cry for me, Argentina. It's the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 17, 2026
- Shakespeare, James I and Britain's Golden Age of men's jewellery
- From fresh Whitstable oysters to cracking claws in the Hebrides: Britain’s best coastal restaurants
- One of the most beautiful houses in the New Forest has come to the market, and its an Arts-and-Crafts dream
- Rights flow to more threatened rivers facing further pollution
July 16th
- A converted Cotswolds barn with pool, party barn and its own lake — just 45 minutes from central London
- Slither over here and celebrate World Snake Day with the Country Life Quissssssss of the Day, July 16, 2026
- You can't rush greatness: 50 years of the stop-motion studio behind Wallace & Gromit
- What's in my Boot
- Mark Diacono: The plant that becomes a friend — and it's the perfect thing to put in your Pimm's
- The extraordinary country house where Princess Margaret lived with Lord Snowdon is on the open market for the first time in its history
- Why have the songbirds that protect the Tower of London been branded 'trickster Gods' and 'butcher crows'?
July 15th
- Britain's gold rush is very bad news for vintage and luxury watches
- Drink up with the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 15, 2026
- How the owners of a rug firm with a famous following made an 18th-century Maltese palazzo a home
- Nowa Huta: An elegant expression of Soviet socialist might
- Tom Parker Bowles: Ceviche may be minimalist, but it's a bona-fide masterpiece
- Rooms with a view: The new Oakwrights garden pavilion collection
July 14th
- 'I sent my husband to buy a dining table. He came back with a vast statue of a lady on a horse': Oka founder Sue Jones on her first house in the country
- Revolutionise your life with the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 14, 2026
- Homegrown heroes: The British stone from Artorius Faber which transformed Country Life's RHS Chelsea Flower Show stand
- Country Life July 15, 2026
- 'It may be an anachronism, but it is a glorious one': Aston Martin V8 Vantage Volante
- A Victorian palm house that became a striking five-bedroom home in Devon
- A five minute guide to John Constable's most famous painting
July 13th
- The Goldsmiths' £25 million London mansion is for sale, with 10 bedrooms, 2,500 acres of parkland on the doorstep, and endless stories to be told
- Stay afloat of the news with the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 13, 2026
- The most famous suitcase in the world was built to last: 'It's been dinged by elephants, it's fallen off safari trucks, it's traversed five continents'
- A lost Surrey garden infested with peacocks and influenced by Gertrude Jekyll
- What is everyone talking about this week: From ecology to football, why does France beat us at our own games?
July 12th
- Peace, love, pirates, Bentley and the Big Sur
- The kind, loyal and goofy dog facing an AI-era identity crisis
- Five homes for sale, from a thatched cottage in Devon to a breathtaking private island, as seen in Country Life
- The Country Life team's favourite wild swimming spots in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales
- Warwick Castle is a masterpiece that's become a medieval theme park — but then again, it always has been
July 11th
- Life's a beach — especially if you live in one of these epic homes by the sea
- The best antique dealers across the country, as chosen by Britain's top interior designers, architects and garden designers
- Gyles Brandreth: ‘Who would play me in a film of my life? Kermit the frog’
- The Terrace Rooms & Wine review: The boutique bolthole in Britain's Amalfi, run by one of the UK's top sommeliers
- Generations of owners at Fonthill destroyed the house and neglected the gardens — today, they're simply perfect
July 10th
- The Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 10, 2026 is a real gem
- The Art of Effortlessness: Code8 Beauty Finds the Modern Woman's Cheat Code
- Meet the Sherlock Holmeses of the jewellery world: 'Someone requested a Cartier bangle owned by the Duchess of Windsor. I knew where it was'
- Ten super-commuter villages where you can enjoy lashings of rural life less than an hour from London
- 'This is a Mozart, not a Beethoven vintage': Why 2025 might be the best Bordeaux in decades
- There is more to Lady Jane Grey — our shortest reigning monarch — than this, the most famous painting of her
- Reader event: Advance to Mayfair with London Square
July 9th
- Live in the house where A. A. Milne created Winnie-the-Pooh, and where a Rolling Stones superstar met his tragic end
- Find yourself, understand the world and take the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 9, 2026
- How Frida Kahlo’s life and image have become a global phenomenon — and what her self portraits really say about her
- 'I thought I had taken pretentiousness to a new level, but actually it has gone down well': The magical gardens at Broadwoodside, full of the humour of their irrepressible creators
- The country house experts with cast-iron reputations and genuine talent — as nominated by their peers
- The greatest craftspeople in Britain, as chosen by the nation's best interior designers, architects and country house experts
- An idyllic country estate set in a South Downs landscape of cliffs, villages and chalk figures hewn into the hillsides
July 8th
- Why a watch should be anything but round
- Let the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 8, 2026 get you up to speed
- One of the great treasures of Highclere shows 'Nature set into marble, frozen and made eternal'
- In Victorian England, to flex on your friends was to serve them swan-shaped ice cream
July 7th
- A country house built on the site of an ancient Sussex castle, where the 900-year-old walls are still standing
- Who let the dogs out? We did, in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 7, 2026
- Giles Kime: 'Never let anyone persuade you that this rural reductivism is simple'
- Country Life July 8, 2026
- Smart, stylish, subtle, Swedish: The Volvo EX60 makes the practical chic
- A converted pilchard cellar for sale at £1.295 million (but don't worry, it's much nicer than that makes it sound)
- The intimate letters 'full of nerdy detail' that Tolkien shared with his most devoted fan
July 6th
- It's coming home in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 6, 2026
- Darkness, meet light: A striking Victorian home for sale in London's most charmingly-named suburb
- These are a few of Sarah Corbett-Winder's favourite things
- Felled by a pair of cursed shoes — the butterfly-shaped house that Lutyens built
- What everyone is talking about this week: MAGA (Make Airports Great Again)
July 5th
- 'We haven’t flipped yet, but we’ve been close': Making waves on Lake Como with Will Smith and Star Wars-style electric boats
- Adored by Princess Margaret and Alfred Hitchcock — the rare Welsh terrier breed saved from extinction by Country Life
- Five charming rural retreats, from Kent to Herefordshire, as seen in Country Life
- When is a weed not a weed? When it's a wildflower
- Warwick Castle: The 700-year story of one of the world's great strongholds
July 4th
- A 500-year-old house that sits on 183 acres of one of the most sought-after peninsulas in Cornwall, with a mile of coast all to itself
- 'I know that Serena Williams doesn’t like him': Meet the people, dogs and harris hawk that really rule Wimbledon
- ‘I see a snail, and I feel no animosity towards it. I'm perfectly happy for it to continue being a snail without being on my plate’: George the Poet’s Consuming Passions
- A billionaire's walled garden amid the most undisturbed and beautiful countryside in the west country
- There’s more to Palm Beach in the USA than presidents and palatial pads — it’s the capital of fun
July 3rd
- 250 years? That's nothing. Here are five beautiful American homes that are older than the USA itself
- USA 250: Land of the free, home of the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 3, 2026
- Steven King: My time with the world’s greatest jeweller you’ve never heard of
- What if we could all grow our own produce from the comfort of our living rooms
- Trackside at Silverstone? Your own rally stage? Seven magnificent homes for those who feel the need for speed
- If the Unloved Birds’ Club has an apex predator in its midst, then it is surely the white-tailed eagle
July 2nd
- The 'British Alcatraz' didn't become a prison — it was turned into a unique private island bolthole, and now it's up for sale
- How well do you know your crisp brands? It's harder than you think in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 2, 2026
- This painting sums up The War of Independence's effect on our shores
- The most demanding, delicious pelargoniums, from the variety that likes it drier than a Martini, to the flower with peppermint-scented leaves 'as soft as mouse fur'
- 'One of the finest manor houses to come to the market in recent years', in a Dorset village that's been inhabited for 2,500 years
- What has the USA ever done for us? Quite a lot, as it turns out
July 1st
- In The Dogh0use: Would you pay extra to build your own luxury watch?
- From July and Jools to Jewels, Jules and Julian — the ultimate July questions in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 1, 2026
- ‘Your brain switches off in a way it doesn’t necessarily when you’re staying in the nicest suite at Claridge’s’: Why we’ve all got cabin fever
- 'A corner of the USA that is forever Putney': Charleston is a masterpiece of urban give and take
- Avoid flaccid lettuce, gently-rotting cucumber and shiny processed ham with Tom Parker Bowles's guide to the perfect salad
- Happily-ever-after treasures created by Cece Jewellery
- Knight Frank's experts on why, where and what to buy in the Cotswolds