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Downtown Abbey is about to finish forever, and you're about to get a chance to see — and to buy — the costumes from the show
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A spectacular, light-filled home on the Isle of Wight where you can see the water from practically every window
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The former stables — and recording studio for the Pet Shop Boys — transformed with a magical blend of city and country aesthetic, now seeking a new owner
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The 'strikingly beautiful, authentic and innovative' Highland castle that's been saved for the ages, and available to rent by the weekend
By Mary Miers
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The red kite is a soaraway success story, having escaped extinction to become a familiar sight in our skies again
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Wimbledon at the movies, and the Royal Family's bank: Country Life Quiz of the Day, July 10, 2025
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The transformative renovation of a Grade II-listed property with an 'unusual footprint'
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People & Places
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Why society needs snobs to tell us that 'actually, we've got this terribly wrong'
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For every new stone mason, seven retire: St Paul's plan to save heritage crafts — and itself in the process
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Richard Mille: The man who went from carving watches out of soap to making timepieces for Rafael Nadal and Lando Norris — and built a £1bn business in the process
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The Manner review: This New York hotel is bringing the 1970s back to SoHo, one colour at a time
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A spectacular, light-filled home on the Isle of Wight where you can see the water from practically every window
By Penny Churchill
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The former stables — and recording studio for the Pet Shop Boys — transformed with a magical blend of city and country aesthetic, now seeking a new owner
By Toby Keel
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The Good Life 2025? A development promising 'Britain's greenest homes' blends zero carbon, organic allotments and a touch of luxury in the Kent countryside
By Annunciata Elwes
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Breathtaking views and gardens that run down to the water's edge at this delightful home in Cornwall
By Penny Churchill
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Best country houses for sale this week
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A 500-acre estate that spent 11 centuries in the same family, for sale for only the second time in its history
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'The city has always held an important creative space within our design studio': A luxury townhouse in Tokyo, courtesy of Aston Martin
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Interiors
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The transformative renovation of a Grade II-listed property with an 'unusual footprint'
By Arabella Youens
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I've seen the light: How a dark and gloomy kitchen in the Scottish Borders was reconfigured for 21st century living
By Arabella Youens
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'Comfortable, cosseting and far from the madding crowd': The recently refurbished Cornish cottage that proves Victorian decor is making a comeback
By Giles Kime
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18 inspiring ideas to help you make the most of meals in the garden this summer
By Amelia Thorpe
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'These aren't just rooms. They are spaces configured with enormous cunning, artfully combining beauty with functionality': Giles Kime on the wonders of WOW!house 2025
By Giles Kime
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How the deep-lustre of copper brings period glamour to this kitchen
By Arabella Youens
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The beauty’s in the detail: How English stone specialist Artorius Faber helped to bring Country Life's Chelsea stand to life
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A feast of ideas: What to expect at WOW!house 2025
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LIFE & STYLE
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Brideshead Revisited (again): The 10 scene-stealing British country homes from film and television
By Ben Lerwill
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Sophia Money-Coutts: Is it ever okay to throw your dog a birthday party?
By Sophia Money-Coutts
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Tuning in with the past: Monk music will ring out for the first time since the Dissolution after medieval manuscript is rediscovered
By Annunciata Elwes
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Water you're waiting for? Britain's best heritage lidos were built to save swimmers from polluted seas full of potato peelings, oil and coal — and they're still in action today
By Kathryn Ferry
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COUNTRYSIDE
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The red kite is a soaraway success story, having escaped extinction to become a familiar sight in our skies again
By Mark Cocker
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What it's like to come face-to-face with a great white shark, with Dan Abbott of Netflix's All The Sharks
By Toby Keel
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The life that thrives among the dead: How wildlife finds a home in the graveyards and churchyards of Britain
By Laura Parker
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Gardens
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Alan Titchmarsh: My garden is as pretty as I've ever known it, thanks to an idea I've rediscovered after 50 years
By Alan Titchmarsh
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The Hollywood garden designers who turned their hand to a magical corner of Somerset
By Caroline Donald
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Sarah Raven: The flowers I have that are flourishing superbly, despite the battering heat
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The 'Rose Labyrinth' of Coughton Court, where 200 varieties come together in this world-renowned garden in Warwickshire
By Val Bourne
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'None of this would be here had the tithe barn not burned down that night’: How the terrifying destruction of a medieval landmark sparked the creation of the magnificent gardens of Bledlow Manor
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'The whole house shook. Everything was white. For four months, it felt as if we were on Mars': The story behind one of Hampshire's most breathtaking gardens
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ART & CULTURE
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‘One of the most effective pieces of propaganda ever made’: the Bayeux Tapestry heads to Britain for the first time in almost a millennium
By Carla Passino
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‘They remain, really, the property of all of those who love them, know them, and tell them. They are our stories, the inheritance of the people of Scotland’: The Anthology of Scottish Folk Tales
By Patrick Galbraith
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Canine muses: Lucian Freud's etchings of Pluto the whippet are among his most popular and expensive work
By Agnes Stamp
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‘Reactions to the French in the 1870s varied from outrage to curious interest’: Impressionism's painstaking ten year journey to be taken seriously by the Brits
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Travel
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The 'strikingly beautiful, authentic and innovative' Highland castle that's been saved for the ages, and available to rent by the weekend
By Mary Miers
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Jnane Rumi, Marrakech, hotel review: 'The most talked about opening this year — and for good reason'
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‘‘In the silence, it is the most perfect blue I have ever seen. If my goggles weren’t already overflowing with water I might even weep’: Learning to freedive on the sparkling French Riviera with a five-time World Champion
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'Champagne is not simply a place, it’s a symbol of excellence': How a quiet rural region shrugged off war, famine and pestilence to become the home of the ultimate luxury tipple
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Sophia Money-Coutts: When is the right moment to put your seat back on a plane?
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‘Whatever do you do up there?’ enquire certain English infidels. The answer? ‘Lady, if ya gotta ask, ya’ll never know’: David Profumo's piece of heaven in Highland Perthshire
By David Profumo
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Food & Drink
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The last miracle of St Boswell? How a Scottish potato field became the world's least-likely producer of sparkling wine
By Lotte Brundle
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How to make The Connaught Bar's legendary martini — and a few others
By Rosie Paterson
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Gill Meller's tomato, egg, bread and herb big-hearted summer salad
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Sophia Money-Coutts: Why clinking glasses and saying ‘Cheers!’ is a tiny bit embarrassing
By Sophia Money-Coutts
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What do an order of Catholic priests and actor Hugh Bonneville have in common? They helped this West Sussex sparkling wine triumph over multiple French Champagne houses
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11 golden rules for making a perfect cup of tea
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How to make Eton mess strawberry blondies
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