This week's magazine is our annual coastal number, where we celebrate the wonderful and varied joys of Britain's coastline
** Post Brexit report: If the countryside adopts ‘stoic optimism’, it can rise to the challenge of Brexit, says CLA President Ross Murray
** Environment minister Rory Stewart, novelist Rosie Thomas and writers Simon Jenkins and Simon Barnes reveal to Jane Wheatley their favourite coastal paths
** Harry Mount visits a restored HMS Caroline, the only surviving ship from the epic Battle of Jutland, fought 100 years ago
** Cricket: Flora Watkins reveals what goes on at teatime on Test Match Special and Roderick Easdale previews the Pakistan series
** We preview the country-house opera and choral festival seasons
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'I have lost a treasure, such a sister, such a friend as never can have been surpassed': Inside Jane Austen's Winchester home, the house where she penned her final words and drew her final breathJane Austen spent the last days of her life in rented lodgings in Winchester, Hampshire. Adam Rattray describes the remarkable recent discoveries made about the house in which she died.
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An utterly charming island home in Scotland with gardens so beautiful they made the cover of Country LifeAn Cala on the Isle of Seil has a fascinating history that is only enhanced by its amazing setting.
