Horses are intertwined with our history, and not only that but they've inspired some of our favourite literature too, so this week Kate Green remembers our favourite equine characters.
Also in County Life this week, it's the most wonderful time of the year for wildfowlers, finds John Lewis-Stempel, while we mourn the end of an era as the Land Rover Defender goes out of production.
Returning inside to the warm we visit the thrilling Prestat chocolate factory, which inspired Roald Dahl, and take a turn around the V&A’s new European galleries.
Turning to the kitchen, Simon Hopkinson roasts a teal and stews a partridge, and in the property section we ask the dreade question: when is it time to downsize?
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The garden created by a forgotten genius of the 1920s, rescued from 'a sorry state of neglect to a level of quality it has not known for over 50 years'George Dillistone’s original Arts-and-Crafts design at Knowle House, East Sussex, has been lovingly restored and updated with contemporary planting. George Plumptre tells more; photography by Clive Nichols.
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21 of the greatest craftspeople working in Britain today, as chosen by the nation's best designers and architectsWe've persuaded some of the most celebrated names from our Country Life Top 100 to name the craftspeople they have in their own personal little black books.
