Country Life

Country Life is a glossy weekly magazine from the UK, known for its perfect-bound format. It is published in London, previously located at 110 Southwark Street until March 2016, when it moved to a different location. The magazine is owned by Time Inc UK.

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Quirky ceramics, Carey Mulligan and Greece: Lucy Williams's consuming passions

3 days ago | countrylife.co.uk | Rosie Paterson

Your aesthetic hero John Stefanidis’ Greek homes have always massively inspired me — they’re so beautifully layered, classic and unexpected all at once. He himself is incredible dapper too. A book you've found inspiringI mostly read fiction and always finish anything by Anne Tyler, Elisabeth Strout or Jonathan Franzen thinking about life a little differently. The Stranding by Kate Sawyer is a book I still think about.
Sophia Money-Coutts: When is a thank you letter still mandatory and when will a voice note (under a minute, please!) suffice

3 days ago | countrylife.co.uk | Sophia Money-Coutts

A letter? A letter? What is this — 1897 (Editor's note: incidentally, this is when Country Life was first published)? Do I have to cycle to the post box on a penny farthing? Ahem, no it’s not, and no you don’t.
Prussia Cove: Shrouded in mystery and romance, this former smugglers' paradise is an isolated idyll

4 days ago | countrylife.co.uk | Ben Lerwill

Cornishman John Carter, born in 1738, was quite the character. He was fond of playing soldier games as a youngster, getting so into the spirit of these adventures that he was known as the King of Prussia, perhaps partly due to his resemblance to Frederick the Great. Fast forward a few years and that boy was on his way to becoming one of the most famed smugglers the county has ever seen. It was a time when salt, gin and tobacco were all in high demand and heavily taxed.
Simon Armitage: 'I've tried getting AI to write poems - and they've all been reassuringly awful'

4 days ago | countrylife.co.uk | Toby Keel

Poet, author, musician and Yorkshireman, Simon Armitage has been Britain's Poet Laureate since 2019 — so we're thrilled that he joined James Fisher on the latest edition of the Country Life Podcast. Subscribe to the Country Life PodcastFrom the surprising details of what he does — or, more accurately, doesn't — have to do as part of his role, to the primary school teacher who didn't even put his Christmas poem in his class's top six, Simon shares tales of his life, his work and his inspiration.
'More of a family member than a car': 50 years of the Volkswagen Polo

5 days ago | countrylife.co.uk | Matthew Macconnell |Matthew Macconnell

‘Your first car, your trip to the seaside, your first taste of independence — and the ability to choose for yourself where the next adventure will take you,’ says Volkswagen’s Thomas Schäfer. ‘The Volkswagen Polo has been at the heart of so many unforgettable moments and stories.’He’s not wrong. The Polo might be one of the nation’s most loved cars. Most of us have either owned one or known someone who has.
‘It's a bit like a pub, but without the requirement of being drunk’: Why we’re all hot for saunas

6 days ago | countrylife.co.uk | Lotte Brundle

‘For me, the best sauna you can have is when it's wild, windy, awful weather,’ says Robin Bartlett. ‘You're outside, standing in the driving rain and it's freezing, but you're not cold. Then you're floating in a five degree sea, which — at any other time — you would be screaming and running out of, and probably calling for an ambulance, or at least a towel.’Bartlett founded Sea Scrub Sauna, in Kent, alongside a friend, and his cousin, Luke, who once lived in Norway.
The bowtie: A new statement of counter culture or a 'middle finger around your neck'?

6 days ago | countrylife.co.uk | Simon Mills

In his 1833 essay on vanity and elegance, Honoré de Balzac posited a bold opinion on the tying of bow ties. The manner in which his cravate is bowed and knotted, Balzac wrote in Traité de la Vie Élégante: Physiologie de la Toilette, separates ‘a man of genius from a mediocre one’. This was back when the fashion for men’s neckwear was in its infancy.
Gwithian Towans: A golden sand beach that stretches along the eastern curve of St Ives Bay

6 days ago | countrylife.co.uk | Ben Lerwill

At low tide, the dune-backed coastal expanse known as The Towans becomes a single three-mile strand of golden sand, stretching majestically along the eastern curve of St Ives Bay. Look more closely at the map — or wait until the tide comes in — and you’ll see that it’s more than half a dozen separate beaches. All are worthy of your attention, but special mention goes to Gwithian Towans, near the north-eastern extremity of the bay.
Nanjizal Beach lets you experience a very different Cornwall to headline-hogging Land's End

1 week ago | countrylife.co.uk | Ben Lerwill

Many of Cornwall’s most rewarding coastal spots require effort to reach them. Such is the case with Nanjizal Beach (which also goes by the more prosaic name of Mill Bay), a narrow, handsomely higgledy sea inlet that can only be accessed along the coastal path. It sits about half an hour’s walk south of Land’s End, although the contrast between the two sites could hardly be greater.
The Salt Path: The 630-mile trail that saved one couple’s life and inspired Britain to lace up its walking shoes

1 week ago | countrylife.co.uk | Lotte Brundle

Imagine climbing Mount Everest four times. That’s what walking the South West Coast Path (SWCP) is equivalent to. It is not then, you would think, a great idea for someone who has been diagnosed with Corticobasal Degeneration (CBD) — a rare terminal illness — but it didn’t faze Moth Winn, supported, both emotionally and physically, by his wife, Raynor.