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.

Miss Christy Jordan • Christy is a vintner and the founder of Mousehall Distillery and Winery, East Sussex. She is the daughter of Gary and Kathryn Jordan of Tidebrook, East Sussex.

Home is where the holiday is

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Town & Country

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Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Veronica Henry

Country-house treasures

A house to dote on • In the first of two articles, Jeremy Musson describes the complex evolution of this fine house at the hands of Sir Christopher Wren’s master mason Robert Grumbold, mason-surveyor John Lumley and Sir William Chambers

The legacy • Harry Beck and the Underground map

Chemistry? Set… • Clouds of noxious gas, stink bombs and purple smokescreens may sound like schoolboy pranks, but the animal world is just as capable of executing arresting chemical warfare, says Deborah Nicholls-Lee

On top of the world • Fluid in flight and perplexingly wide-ranging, the short-eared owl is a singular figure in the family–and a figure of particular terror to the vole

Works for me • Upgrade your office image with elegant essentials chosen

Luxury In season

Is this England’s year? • Currently ranked third in the world, the England squad stands a great chance of winning the forthcoming Guinness Six Nations thanks to a host of inspiring young players, predicts Owain Jones

Try and try again • Once the reserve of mud-caked public schoolboys, the rugby shirt is now a bona fide sartorial superstar, embraced by outfitters across the globe, writes Tom Howells

Lights fantastic • New designs and accessories to brighten every room, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Property news

Let’s go with the flow • Generally, few settings are as calming–or as coveted–as those beside a river and these five homes offer rare tranquillity among watery idylls, yet are also within relatively easy reach of the capital

London Life • Your indispensable guide to the capital

Need to know

The original uncut gems • As the London Museum prepares to unveil the Cheapside Hoard in new premises on Smithfield, Will Hosie speaks to historian Victoria Shepherd about the story behind these precious jewels

A rock-solid legacy • It’s not only the 140 million-year-old rocks that set this garden apart, says George Plumptre, the layout was created by two horticultural legends: Vita Sackville-West and Lanning Roper

Leek minded

Kitchen garden cook • Blood oranges

Travel 2026

Unpacked

Pack your bags • From Scotland to the Seychelles, there are myriad new hotel openings this year to inspire your travels, says Emma Love

The last great wilderness • The vast, open spaces of Canada’s British Columbia can make you feel very small, but very much alive, discovers Rosie Paterson

As good as it gets • COUNTRY LIFE writers reveal the hotels that stood out to them in 2025

One of a kind • Rupert Uloth travels to Madagascar’s north-east to marvel at the extraordinary abundance of flora and fauna–much of which is found nowhere else on...