Country Life April 8, 2026

The cover of the April 8 issue of Country Life, 2026, featuring a very ornate Traveller's caravan — Who wouldn't want to stay in here?

(Image credit: Simon Brown/Country Life)

Here's a look at some of what you'll find inside.

Chalking it up

Vicky Liddell explores the myth, mystery and folklore behind the ancient hill figures adorning our countryside.

Seen and herd

Eleanor Doughty meets farmers keen to make the imposing bison a more familiar sight in Britain

Spreads from the April 8 issue of Country Life

Labours of love

Arabella Youens explores the folk-art-inspired interiors of much-loved historic gypsy wagons.

A warm welcome

Ashington Manor in Somerset offers a blueprint for 21st-century restoration, suggests Giles Kime.

So near, yet so far

A revived cricket pavilion in Devon is now a perfect family retreat, finds Arabella Youens

Bright and beautiful

Amelia Thorpe selects the best new looks for the new season.

Brushing up on history

Choosing colours that chime with the history of a house is key, as paint experts tell Arabella Youens.

Words don't come easy

Plain-speaking Giles Kime cuts through the confusing language used in modern interior design.

As sure as eggs is eggs

Restaurants may come and go, but good eggs Benedict will always endure in the eyes of Tom Parker Bowles.

Travel

Rosie Paterson eyes adventures in Africa and Indonesia and Christopher Wallace surveys the dramatic Namibia landscape from above on an unforgettable Cessna-safari trip.

From coast to coast

Forager Mark Williams feasts on the natural larder offered up by the profusion of greenery growing around our coastline.

His bow of burning gold

Michael Prodger tries to enter the often impenetrable world of 'oddball' artist William Blake.

Rachel Portman's favourite painting

The composer picks a treasured 'natural, friendly' animal portrait.

Thinking big

Charles Quest-Ritson is left in awe of the scale of the gardens and planting at Mount Congreve in Co Waterford, Ireland.

A triumph of local talent

Jeremy Musson admires the restoration of Transylvanian gem Apafi Manor in Romania.

And much more

Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by His Majesty The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of modern rural life and all its diverse joys and pleasures — that was first published in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year. Our eclectic mixture of witty and informative content — from the most up-to-date property news and commentary and a coveted glimpse inside some of the UK's best houses and gardens, to gardening, the arts and interior design, written by experts in their field — still cannot be found in print or online, anywhere else.