Country Life July 26 2017 is our brilliant Game Fair number featuring Lakeland terriers, leading figures in conservation, ideal gundogs plus the making of a Purdey gun. Find out more:
LAKELAND TERRIERS: The Lakeland or fell terrier may be hard to define, but it’ll definitely be a handful, advises Adrian Dangar
CONSERVATION: Kate Green looks at what’s changed in the conservation movement in 120 years and leading figures name their heroes and inspirations
GUN DOGS: David Tomlinson on why docile is better than flashy in a gundog
GARDENS: Kathryn Bradley-Hole visits the superb international garden at Seend Manor, Wiltshire
FAVOURITE PAINTING: The author and consultant Peter York chooses a climactic triptych by John Martin
COMMENT: Tim Bonner, chief executive of the Countryside Alliance, on the next 20 years in the countryside
ARCHITECTURE: Serenely beautiful Great Chalfield Manor in Wiltshire has a surprisingly eventful history. Clive Aslet and John Goodall report
REEL LIFE: It’s a tale of grilse and gritted teeth as David Profumo is embarrassingly successful on a fishing trip to Connemara
COOKING: Melanie Johnson makes hummus out of courgettes
CIGARS: Cigars for smoking guns
COLUMNIST OF THE YEAR: John Lewis-Stempel finds music for a father-and-daughter road trip and anxiously inspects his wheat fields on a sultry day
LUXURY: News, plus the making of a Purdey gun, by Hetty Chidwick, and novelist Kathy Lette’s life essentials
INTERIORS: How to have a brilliant bootroom, by Arabella Youens
DANDELIONS: Generations of children have made it a pernicious weed by blowing its seedhead to the four winds yet, observes Ian Morton, we have great affection for the cheerful yellow flower
PROPERTY: Suffolk’s Tudor treasures
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The thrillingly bleak Devon house that inspired The Hound of the Baskervilles is now part of a peaceful farmyard retreatFowlescombe Farm near Ivybridge, in Devon, is a ‘complete retreat from everyday life’ — and the rumoured inspiration for one of the best known and loved Sherlock Holmes stories.
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One puffin, two puffin, three puffin, four: The National Trust’s puffin count gets underway on the Farne IslandsThough the islands' shags and terns are in decline, its puffin population has been growing — and the trust is streaming a live recording of their burrows.
