Country Life

Published by TI Media Limited Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today. It has a unique core mix of contemporary country-related editorial and top end property advertising. Editorially, the magazine comments in-depth on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, the arts, gardens and gardening, travel, the countryside, field-sports and wildlife. With renowned columnists and superb photography Country Life delivers the very best of British life every week.

Clare, Lady Morpurgo • Clare is a philanthropist and the founder of Farms For City Children. She is the daughter of the late Sir Allen and Letitia Lucy Lane and is married to Sir Michael Morpurgo, with whom she lives in Iddesleigh, Devon.

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Country Life

Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Stuff & nonsense

Letters to the Editor

Act now for Man’s best friends

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Leslie MacLeod Miller

Country-house treasures

A Regency prospect • A Georgian house rich in military associations is now run by a trust. Steven Brindle looks at its history and the remarkable architect responsible for its design

Dennis Potter and The Singing Detective

Life in the sloe lane • If you know where to look and what to do with it, profound pleasure can be gleaned from foraging autumn’s hedgerow bounty, says John Wright

The roads less travelled • Roger Morgan-Grenville celebrates the shapeshifting glories of Britain’s sea paths, evanescent byways revealed by the tides

Beginning to see the light • An early-morning dog walk through the woods sees John Lewis-Stempel coming face to face–or skin to spider silk–with the industrious magic of a September dawn

A stitch in time • From Bertie Wooster’s dressing gown to Mr Darcy’s shirt, Deborah Nicholls-Lee unpicks the art of period costume at world-famous historical costumier Cosprop

Luxury Notebook

A few of my favourite things • The track cyclist won nine world championship titles between 2005 and 2012, plus Olympic sprint gold in 2008 and, in 2012, keirin gold and sprint silver. Appointed CBE in 2013, Miss Pendleton then had a spell as an amateur jump jockey, competing at the 2016 Cheltenham Festival in the Foxhunter Chase. She supports various charities and champions equality and a compassionate culture in sport. She lives in Dorset with her fiancé, Louis, her Belgian Malinois, Vala, and her horse, Sarah.

A plummy collection • This season’s bounty is plentiful, so why not choose some fruity jewellery to match

The designer’s room • For this guest bedroom in a new country house in Scotland, Emma Sims-Hilditch was asked to combine timeless style with comfort

Bedside manners • Small tables with big impact, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Dream houses of the West • These four glorious properties need only a modicum of tender loving care and offer great rewards to the far-sighted

The long and short of it • From traditional stone-built longhouses to picture-perfect thatched cottages, Arabella Youens finds a tempting selection of properties in beautiful West Country locations

Plum advice • Charles Quest-Ritson has grown more than 20 types of plum, gage, mirabelle and damson over the years. Here, he recommends some of the finest

Hot lips and the blue angels

Slightly foxed • John Hoyland never misses a chance to scour a second-hand bookshop for old gardening books, not only for advice, but for a glimpse into past gardening lives

Kitchen garden cook Plums

Let battle commence • A sturdy bonsai freshwater swashbuckler, the spiny stickleback is often the first fish we...