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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Farms, fishing and a former owner who once bought Stonehenge. You could have it all at Bapton Manor

2 days ago | countrylife.co.uk | Penny Churchill

Down south in Wiltshire, Alex Lawson of Savills is leading the sale of the prestigious, 1,796-acre Bapton Manor farming and sporting estate, which includes the hamlet of Bapton, a mile from Wylye and 15 miles north-west of Salisbury, at the northern edge of the Cranborne Chase National Landscape, an area of clear chalkstreams and rolling downland.
The Talented Monsieur Mille: The haute horologist who stopped time is celebrated in a new book

3 days ago | countrylife.co.uk | Chris Hall

Richard Mille contradicts the rule that says in order for a watch brand to be a household name it must either be centuries old, make millions of watches or preferably both. Unlike Rolex, Omega or Cartier, Richard Mille makes barely 6,000 watches a year.
'When it comes to dating, longer notes are allowed and potentially even encouraged': A modern-day guide to voice notes

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

Sorry! There’s no point in grumbling about the ubiquity of voice notes, now. They’re here, everyone’s using them, get with the programme. That said, not so long ago, my friend Jess sent me a 29-minute voice note. ‘That wasn’t a voice note,’ I texted back, having listened to it while in the bath, ‘it was a podcast.’I tend to have a one-minute rule for voice notes — for the ones I send and receive. What can’t be said in a minute? Hardly anything.
White sand beaches, smuggler's coves, teeming wildlife and a ruined castle in a Scottish island that's on the market for the first time in almost a century

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

Buying a property is often a battle between head and heart: do you go for a sensible, practical place to live, or a dramatic and beautiful property that sets your heart aflutter every time you come home? For our money — and most likely yours, too, if you're reading this story — the pull of the romantic will always win. And property doesn't get any more romantic than the utterly gorgeous Shuna Island, which is currently for sale via Sotheby's International Realty for £5.5 million.
Steve Backshall on sharks, quicksand, and getting his fingertips eaten by piranhas

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

The adventurer, broadcaster, scientist and writer Steve Backshall has been a fixture on TV screens in Britain for nearly three decades — and we're absolutely thrilled that he joined James Fisher on the Country Life Podcast. Steve talks through some of the highlights of his amazing career, from coming face-to-face with tigers and great white sharks to discovering ancient ruins while diving in flooded cave systems.
In pursuit of Nancy: Outrageous star Bessie Carter on bringing the Mitford family to life

5 days ago | countrylife.co.uk | Meg Walters

It's a Monday afternoon and I'm sitting in a gilded chair in a deluxe suite at The Ritz ready to chat with Bessie Carter about her turn as Nancy in UKTV's new series about the infamous Mitford sisters, Outrageous.
'One of the 10 most perfect houses in Britain' has come to the market at £9.5 million

5 days ago | countrylife.co.uk | Penny Churchill

Tuesday sees the launch via Country Life of one of Somerset’s most captivating country houses: the exquisite, Grade II*-listed Maperton House. Set in eight acres of immaculate gardens and grounds at Maperton, three miles south-west of Wincanton, it comes to the market with a guide price of £9.5 million through Ed Cunningham of Knight Frank and Lindsay Cuthill of Blue Book. And it really is quite something.
17 outstanding homes for sale across Britain, from under £250k to £6.5 million, as seen in Country Life

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

Surrey — £6,500,000Country Life with a location well within the M25 can be found, as seen in this home set on one of the swishest roads in Esher. Beautiful inside and out, and with two acres of gardens, it's the sort of place where gnarled beams, stained glass, modern art and designer kitchen seem to work together perfectly. For sale with Strutt & Parker. See more pictures and details for this property.
The legacy od Dad's Army

1 week ago | countrylife.co.uk | Kate Green

There is surely no better programme to cheer the nation in the event of a technical problem with live television than Dad’s Army ; the BBC apparently keeps a reel on standby. The first episode of the much-loved sitcom — The Man and the Hour — was broadcast on July 31, 1968, with the theme tune Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mr Hitler? sung by Bud Flanagan.
'The very best North Yorkshire has to offer': The £25 million Kirkham Estate

1 week ago | countrylife.co.uk | Penny Churchill

For sale for the first time in more than 100 years, at a guide price of £25 million through the Richmond office of land and rural property agents GSC Grays and Malton-based Rounthwaite & Woodhead, the historic, 1,103-acre Kirkham estate, some six miles from Malton and 14 miles from York, encapsulates the very best that North Yorkshire has to offer.