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October 2026
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- October 22nd
- An 'English Napa Valley' up for sale just outside Bath, with farmhouse, helipad and a lovely line in Chardonnay
- One thousand years of kings and queens in 10 questions: It's a right royal Country Life Quiz of the Day, October 22, 2026
- Marxist, maker and maverick: The curious contradictions of Britain's best textile designer
- 'Gardeners don't get discouraged. If we lose a plant, we look for an even better one to replace it. It's the triumph of hope over experience'
- A home in 'the Knightsbridge of the North' where 400 years of history meet spectacular his-and-hers bathtubs
- Historic haul of Lord Nelson's letters will head to auction
- October 21st
- Grade I-listed, 48 bedrooms, grounds by Capability Brown: 'The Versailles of Leicestershire' is up for sale
- Chill out and celebrate the sloth with the Country Life Quiz of the Day, October 21, 2026
- I went to John Lewis and I bought a sofa and a holiday: The return of the real-life travel agent
- Alpacalypse now: The Peruvian camelids conquering the countryside
- The ship that never sailed at Chavenage, the house made famous by 'Poldark' and 'Rivals'
- Love at first bite? In Paris, the only thing they take more seriously than fashion is the macaron
- Reader Event: Jewels of distinction at Elizabeth Gage
- October 20th
- From dusty attic to auction room: The forgotten family jewels about to make a fortune
- How well do you know your saints? The Country Life Quiz of the Day, October 20, 2026, is positively divine
- If the Porsche Mission S has taught me anything, it's that if you want people to buy your cars, you had better make them pretty
- Country Life October 21, 2026
- Desk appeal: How to create an inspiring office by Britain’s leading interior designers
- What's better than staying in the most sought-after Airbnb? Buying it
- Ronnie Wood has many muses, but his favourite is Jimi Hendrix
- October 19th
- The price is right or wrong in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, October 19, 2026
- We're a fan: The tallest surviving windmill in Britain is for sale, with six bedrooms, a cottage and 240 years of history
- 'Leaving your jacket pocket empty is like leaving a corner of a beautiful work of art unpainted'
- This Victorian abbey was so magnificent that Country Life mourned it twice
- It's not all doom and gloom for British farmers — just ask the winemakers
- October 18th
- Simplify, and add fjords: Why you should conquer Scandinavia in a small sports car
- Bizarre, bat-eared, wrinkly and bonkers — so how did French bulldogs win over the world?
- Six country homes, from a Queen Anne house in Derbyshire to 'one of the finest houses in Cheshire', as seen in Country Life
- Home Farm, Hartforth: The perfect marriage of sophisticated tastes and a great architect 'at the height of his powers'
- October 17th
- 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 opportunities
- 'Claridge’s is Claridge’s and everywhere else is everywhere else': How Britain's best hotel really works
- David Gandy: ‘I was sent the script for Fifty Shades of Grey’
- The critics need to understand that there is a cruise for everyone — when it comes to exploring the high seas, the smaller the better
- 'A garden that dazzles by its colour and orderly perfection': Highnam Court's 30-year labour of love
- October 16th
- A breathtaking Norwegian lodge tucked into a perfect, unspoilt mountainside
- What did Oscar Wilde say? Complete the quote in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, October 16, 2026
- The miniature pieces of jewellery worth more than a Botticelli
- We're all going coconuts for a Bounty bar
- A 17th century property that was home to one of the great music superstars of the 1970s and 80s
- 'Having learnt the rules, he set out to break them': the legacy of David Hicks
- October 15th
- 'After we moved in we discovered that the cellar had been used as the village morgue': Hamish Mackie on his first house in the country
- The Country Life Quiz of the Day, October 15, 2026, will leave a lasting impression
- How can anything so small be so bewitching? The huge joys of the tiny cyclamen
- From harem to hammam: How the Turks transformed Britain
- The corner of an English field that is forever Rupert Brooke's old house
- Move over, Marianne: Meet the four-legged stars of the new Sense and Sensibility
- Reinventing the country house: Country Life's reader event at Daylesford
- October 14th
- Watch what you owe: Five extraordinarily rare watches seized by HMRC are going up for auction
- Clapback at the haters with the Country Life Quiz of the Day, October 14, 2026
- I went to the French village that throws a big party for a flying donkey every year
- 'Justice, Honour and Humanity': A trophy commemorating bravery in the face of a shipwreck
- Should we be paying to go to museums and galleries? The cost of free entry is more complex than you'd think
- October 13th
- Someone has built a charming rooftop cottage in downtown New York City and you can buy it
- Board of quizzes? Why not try a few games in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, October 13, 2026
- How to grow your own pharmacy in the garden
- Country Life October 14, 2026
- Our favourite new-season paints and wallpapers to refresh any room
- One of the most beautiful Tudor houses in the Cotswolds is on the market for £55,000 — a week
- Frieze! Is counterculture back just in time for London's most prestigious art fair?
- October 12th
- A Victorian country house in a landscape that has 'all the ingredients of perfection'
- The true face of 1990s nostalgia in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, October 12, 2026
- Let's get physical: The future of shopping is decidedly old-fashioned
- Immortalised in 'Poldark' and ravaged by fire: Cornwall's first modern manor house
- Cultural fandom is the ultimate members' club, and J.D. Vance wants in
- October 11th
- Mimosas, mud and 'Trinity, would you mind?' How to save a wet wedding with an Ineos Grenadier Quartermaster
- The staunch and sturdy Austrian export that's even better than schnitzel
- Six country homes to inspire your dreams, from £750,000 to £15 million
- Following in the footsteps of our prehistoric ancestors on a 5,000-year-old trackway
- Admiring the Admiralty: The grand building erected on Whitehall when Britain still ruled the waves
- October 10th
- Spaces of divine beauty: Some of the best church conversions for sale right now
- A. A. Milne hoped for immortality. In Winnie-the-Pooh, he found it
- Elif Shafak: ‘The words of my fictional characters were used as evidence against me in court’
- In search of the authentic French Riviera that captured the imagination of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Cocteau and Henri Matisse
- 'The Versailles of the north': Meet the duchess who's created gardens of joy, wonder — and rather a lot of deadly poison
- October 9th
- An Elizabethan house that's 'as rare as hens’ teeth' has come to the market for the first time since the 1960s
- It's a voyage of discovery in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, October 9, 2026
- How do you make a map cool? By putting it on a Burberry parka
- 'Ideally, you want to have someone there who has been recently cancelled, as everyone wants to speak to them': How to throw London's best party
- 'If you go skiing at the weekend, take your laptop': How to get off the beaten track, but stay on the payroll
- October 8th
- A Grade I-listed 'trophy property' in a charmed spot overlooking Ilkley Moor is in search of a new owner who can return it to glory
- This harvest-themed Country Life Quiz of the Day, October 7, 2026, is outstanding in its field
- From Napoleon’s toothbrush to marvellous menageries, British collectors of the past stopped at nothing
- Hydrangea paniculata: The bold, brave flowers that can stand up to whatever the British climate can throw at them
- A country house that has one of the great masterpieces of medieval architecture in the back garden
- A Greek epic that's lost its marbles
- The curious ingredients behind a truly luxurious fragrance
- October 7th
- Get more than your five-a-day with the Country Life Quiz of the Day, October 7, 2026
- Road tripping through the magical European holiday destination that hasn't been ruined by overtourism
- Hanhart just made 300 of Steve McQueen's favourite pilot's watch, in super-strong horse leather
- The oxymoron of luxury tinned tuna
- How sheep farming transformed the architectural face of the Cotswolds
- October 6th
- A 'masterpiece of engineering' on one of the most dramatic and historic headlands in Cornwall
- The Country Life Quiz of the Day, October 6, 2026, takes a look at this week's news
- The best specialist companies in Britain for country-house renovations
- Country Life October 7, 2026
- London's past, present and future is hidden in the docks
- An Aga so special it inspired the salvation of a magnificent 300-year-old home
- 'There was blood, graphic nudity, even a portrait of a murderer': A five-minute guide to the 1990's greatest and grittiest moments
- The 17th century had Tulipmania, the Victorians the fern craze: There’s nothing new about collecting beyond art
- October 5th
- It's spooky season in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, October 5, 2026
- Why build a new country house? There's a long list of things you'll gain if you can live without that lovely patina of age
- 'Flowers were used to communicate sentiments too intimate or improper to say out loud': The forgotten Victorian tradition of floriography
- This ruinous stately home inspired one of Britain's greatest satirical paintings
- Sheep are getting bad press. Is any of it fair?
- October 4th
- Does the world’s most famous route still capture the romance of the open road?
- It ain't nothing but a song about a hound dog: Musical muses of the canine world
- Six outstanding homes, from an Elizabethan farmhouse to a miniature castle in Sussex, as seen in Country Life
- A four-storey wall of water off Cornwall? Meet the Cribbar
- 'A platform that dignifies the views outwards into the world': Doddington Place's elegant prospect tower
- October 3rd
- Agatha Christie bought and sold homes like she was playing real-life Monopoly — and one of her favourites has come up for sale
- The search for the perfect carrot led me to one of Wiltshire’s loveliest new hotels
- Pioneering chef Raymond Blanc on never saying no and eating caviar for pudding
- This former soup kitchen, on the crossroads of ancient civilisations, is now an Ottoman masterpiece you can stay in
- 'More is more has always been my mantra': The visionary who made the Eden Project from an abandoned clay pit in Cornwall
- October 2nd
- 'We did that London thing of going "wow, look at how much house we can get for our money"': India Knight on her first house in the country
- It's time to face the music in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, October 2, 2026
- I’ve journeyed to Cleopatra's lost emerald mines in search of the gemstone that's 100 times rarer than diamonds
- The ghost stations of the London Underground
- Bring back the scullery: The forgotten rooms of historic country houses
- Going against the grain: Meet the British bakeries championing ancient and heritage crops
- October 1st
- Your parents could have bought Ardross Castle — home of The Traitors — for just £70,000
- Are you faithful to 'The Traitors'? Find out in the Country Life Quiz of the Day, October 1, 2026
- Contemporary Korean art is still very much a product of its past
- The expert tips and tricks to creating a tropical oasis in a very British garden
- Burnham's property dream is 'ambition we should all support' — but his plan 'ignores the countryside' and 'throws young Londoners under the bus', say agents
- Make your ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ dreams come true at this marvellous Oxford home complete with its own ballroom
- 'As dangerous as possible — the best way to be’: Political satirist Ralph Steadman on cartoons and working with Hunter S. Thompson
- New Wealth, New Buyers: The experts of Knight Frank on the changing country property market
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