Country Life 1 July 2020
Country Life 1 July 2020 is out Cotswolds special issue, full of fascinating articles about this beautiful area, plus 81 pages of property.

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COTSWOLDS: The houses, villages and people that define the English idyll, by Clive Aslet.
FLAX: There's a resurgence of flax and the linen it makes.
CLOUDS: Richard Webber on the man who named cumulonimbus.
TOMATO PLANTS: Why bumblebees need tomatoes and vice versa.
Exquisite houses, the beauty of Nature, and how to get the most from your life, straight to your inbox.
PROPERTY: Cotswolds properties, plus London Life.
MY FAVOURITE PAINTING: David Anderson of the National Museum Wales.
MALVERN HEIGHTS: The AONB's history of inspiration.
GARDENS: An Oxfordshire marvel.
THE THAMES: Fiona Reynolds walks its tranquil upper reaches.
Toby Keel is Country Life's Digital Director, and has been running the website and social media channels since 2016. A former sports journalist, he writes about property, cars, lifestyle, travel, nature.
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Claws for thought: The world leading crustacean conservation charity that is saving our lobsters
The National Lobster Hatchery in Cornwall is fighting for the species' survival. But it could do with some help.
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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
Tim Richardson offers a surprising perspective on West Wycombe Park, Buckinghamshire, that's one of the most celebrated landscapes of late-18th-century England. Photographs by Paul Highnam.