Country Life September 13 2017 is stunning Cotswolds special featuring the best booze, glorious Gloucestershire and the gorilla who came to tea, plus the Country Life shooting guide. Find out more:
ARCHITECTURE: A 1750s country house near Tetbury has been brilliantly extended, says Jeremy Musson
GARDENS: The reworking of the garden at Ampney House, Gloucestershire, into a vibrant modern space inspires Vanessa Berridge
GLOUCESTERSHIRE: Rupert Uloth rediscovers this most charming of Cotswold counties
BOOZE: The Cotswolds has become a centre for world-class wines, spirits and lagers. Emma
GORILLA WHO CAME TO TEA: Katherine MacInnes recounts the extraordinary tale of the gorilla who attended a Gloucestershire school
SHOOTING: How to be a great guest, the best kit, dream drives and shoot characters
Subscribe to Country Life from £34.24, or £2.70 an issue
WILDLIFE: David Profumo profiles the cranefly
PROPERTY: Penny Churchill finds captivating Cotswold properties for sale and Annunciata Elwes picks some of the most elegant town houses
LIVING NATIONAL TREASURE: The tanner
FAVOURITE PAINTING: The collector and philanthropist chooses one of the Zurbaráns he saved for the North
COLUMNIST: Fiona Reynolds follows in the leafy footsteps of her heroine
MOTORING: Charles Rangeley-Wilson tests Toyota’s new Hilux pick-up
CAMPAIGN: Wool is back
INTERIORS: Arabella Youens finds out why London is a world leader in interior design
COOKING: Melanie Johnson picks cherries for a clafoutis
ART & ANTIQUES: Wolf Burchard reports on the National Trust’s mammoth project to catalogue its furniture
PERFORMING ARTS: Julian Lloyd Webber talks to Pippa Cuckson about the crisis in musical education
If you loved this issue, why not subscribe to Country Life and get your copy delivered to your door every week?
You can also subscribe to the digital edition on your tablet and download your copy every Wednesday.
Back issues of Country Life magazine can be ordered online here.
-
The life that thrives among the dead: How wildlife finds a home in the graveyards and churchyards of BritainHome to a veritable ‘Noah’s Ark of species’, thanks to never being ploughed, sprayed or fertilised, our churchyards offer a sacred haven for flora and fauna, says Laura Parker.
-
‘What a shame when a dinosaur disappears into the mansion of an oligarch rather than being displayed for all to enjoy’: The ethics of the dinosaur auctionFancy a stegosaurus in your living room? You can buy one at auction. But the latest luxury good is a paleontologist's worst nightmare.
