Most of these will be based on the number of our readers who read each individual article — but this piece is our team's selection of our favourite articles: the ones that made us smile, or laugh out loud, or count our blessings, or sprang a surprise. Enjoy!
How (not) to fix up a country house, by our interiors guru Giles Kime
'Ignore your friends, take a long view and steer clear of anything that smacks of being fashionable'. Sage advice.
A country house that comes with a parking space for a Harrier jump jet
It really did. Honestly.
Alan Titchmarsh: Wordsworth was dead wrong about lonely clouds — but he was on to something with daffodils
'As any resident of Cumberland and Westmorland knows only too well, no cloud in the Lake District is ever lonely.'
Norman Foster on the Country Life podcast: 'The Green Belt is one of our greatest inventions'
A true legend — and a true gentleman.
Room with a cru
How an 'enduring legacy of lockdown' became a must-have in interior design.
Inside Madresfield Court, the house that inspired Evelyn Waugh’s 'Brideshead Revisited'
Amazing.
Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc: The world's most photographed hotel
'The stuff of legend'.
'One of the most amazing things in this country'
The tower of thorns that makes salt. Somehow.
Curious Questions: Was music's famous 'Lady of the Nightingales' nothing more than a hoaxer?
The amazing story of Beatrice Harrison.
Not cheap... but cheaper than a divorce lawyer'
Why it pays to hire a consultant to choose the perfect paint colour.
'Sometimes I like to think I have my finger on the pulse when it comes to design and fashion. I am incorrect'
We sent James Fisher to one of Europe's biggest street parties. Chaos ensued.
'If you get 12 great photographs a year, you're doing well'
Charlie Waite on the secrets of landscape photography
The ship that was in two different centuries, two different years, two different months, two different days and two different seasons, all at the same time
Mind-bending.
I loved it like a best friend, and shed a tear when it was finally consigned to the great junkyard in the sky'
Country Life's team on our first cars.
Lucy Shepherd: Britain's most intrepid young explorer
The adventurer on how she went from rural Suffolk to trekking the Amazon.
What it's really like to live in your own castle
Epic beauty, sweeping grandeur and water pouring through the ceiling.
Curious Questions: We used to fly cars across the English Channel in 20 minutes — why did we stop?
Martin Fone on the long-forgotten cross-channel air service.
Breaking the fourth wall: How Country Life's interiors editor redesigned and restored his own home
Nothing like seeing a design journalist who has put his money where his keyboard is.
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen: Changing rooms, mixing leather and velvet, and the joy of growing old disgracefully
Our favourite podcast of the year, bar none.
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St Moritz and the slopes of hazard: How a Victorian bet sparked the Swiss resort's love affair with adrenaline-pumping winter sports
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday snow.
Zebras, lobsters, lions and Ronald Reagan's baby elephant: The strangest pets in history
'The sales assistant answered Reagan’s call, listened politely to the request, then without skipping a beat enquired, "And would that be African or Indian, sir?"'
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From tropical paradise to Tony Benn: Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 3, 2025Batman's butler makes a cameo appearance in Thursday's quiz.
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The Hollywood legend with an even more famous daughter: Country Life Quiz of the Day, April 2, 2025From buns to bubbly in Wednesday's Quiz of the Day.
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Who wrote The Tenant of Wildfell Hall? Country Life Quiz of the Day, March 31, 2025There's angora, aluminium and the biggest English star of the silent movie era in Monday's Quiz of the Day.
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How many puppies in the average litter? Country Life Quiz of the Day, March 27, 2025Plus a 1960s house, Hollywood's most famous cavewoman and more in Friday's quiz.
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New York v Tokyo v Rome: Country Life Quiz of the Day, March 27, 2025Use your wits, knowledge and blind guesswork to navigate the path of cute pigs, somnambulists and iconic world cities in Thursday's quiz.
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Sitting on the dock of Morecambe Bay: Country Life Quiz of the Day, March 26, 2025The English coast, a classic proverb and the red admiral butterfly all star in Wednesday's quiz.
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Name that hat! Country Life Quiz of the Day, March 25, 2025Tuesday's quiz has a wartime property for sale, plus popes, linoleum and more.
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The most successful dog breed in the history of Crufts? Country Life Quiz of the Day, March 24, 2025Plus the stars in the sky and a curiously-named colour.
