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Country Life's top 20 properties of 2024
We've taken a look back on 2024's most popular property articles on the Country Life website, from picture-perfect cottages to private islands.
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An absurdly perfect thatched country cottage, surrounded by a 6,000-acre estate in the heart of Devon, is for sale at just £650,000
Is it too late to add this Devon cottage to your Christmas wish list?
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Country Life's 20 favourite stories of 2024, from elephants and explorers to the country house that came with a free Harrier Jump Jet
Over the Christmas period we'll be featuring some of the best stories of the year from the Country Life website.
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A Victorian reservoir transformed into a sprawling underground home that's part Roman villa and part Hobbit house
A lot of houses get touted by agents as being 'unique'... but The Old Reservoir in Wharfdale really does live up to its billing.
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Country Life's top 10 gardens articles of 2024
From the gardens of A-listers and crazed plant hunters to tips on compost, we covered it all in 2024.
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Dawn Chorus: The Secret of GK Chesterton, the owl-saving hero who's breaking the internet, and our Quiz of the Day
GK Chesterton's old house is up for sale in what is the final Dawn Chorus of 2024.
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Dawn Chorus: 'The most beautiful car in the world' made both better, and worse, all at once; best mince pies; and our quiz of the day
A roofless conversion of an E-Type, Disney fever dream and more in this morning's Dawn Chorus round-up.
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Seven perfect Christmas gifts for people who just love beautiful, functional things
William Morris famously said to have nothing in your house that you don't know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. These things do their best to hit both targets.
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Dawn Chorus: Nature's 'wholesale fightback' is an inspiration for us all to keep trying
Tuesday's Dawn Chorus brings you five reasons to be cheerful — or six, if you count turning an austere City institution into a brightly-coloured Christmas delight.
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A former nunnery that's now a spectacular home, with statues, stained glass and magnificent gardens
Barrow Court is a home that demands — and deserves — superlatives.
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The national average house price is now £300,000 — but that's still enough to find a slice of country life, from Surrey to the Isle of Mull
We take a look at five homes which show what you can get around Britain with a budget equal to the national average house price.
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Dawn Chorus: The cheetah who's a Far Side cartoon come to life, plus black poplars, country houses and our Quiz of the Day
A glorious cheetah has lit up our inbox this week — plus, can you help save the black poplar? And with the dust having settled, what does the budget really mean for country houses?
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Dawn Chorus: Symbiosis in action
A wonderful picture from Richmond Park and a look inside Country Life's biggest issue of the year.
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Dawn Chorus: Santa's sleigh up for sale, the Royal photographs and sketches going on show, plus our Quiz of the Day
Today's Dawn Chorus looks ahead to an exhibition set to delight at Buckingham Palace next year.
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A farmhouse and 200 acres of the Lake District for sale at the same price as a two-bedroom flat in Barnet
A beautiful farm with spectacular views and potential to create a lifestyle business, plus a truly magical winter scene and our Quiz of the Day.
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12 magical homes for sale, including a £600k cottage which will make you want to drop everything and move to the country
Our weekly look at the best homes to come to the market via Country Life includes some real gems — including a country house with a tennis court that looks like it could have been lifted from Wimbledon.
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Dawn Chorus: Britain has its own rainforests — and they're disappearing even faster than the ones in Brazil
The rainforests of Britain, a Cornwall light show, Christmas gardens and more in our Dawn Chorus round-up this morning.
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Dawn Chorus: The gorgeous English city that's seen the nation's biggest house price rises in 2024, plus Word of the Year, Quiz of the Day and flapjacks for dogs
If you were thinking of moving to Winchester this time last year but didn't do anything about it, you might be left kicking yourself...
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Champagne with fish and chips, and what to drink at Christmas with Oscar Dodd of Fortnum & Mason
Fortnum & Mason's wine and spirits guru Oscar Dodd joins the Country Life podcast.
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Dawn Chorus: Churchill's swimming pool, the end of puppy smuggling, Quiz of the Day, and a two tropical islands for the price of one
This morning's Dawn Chorus brings a few rays of sunshine to the start of December.
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11 magical homes, from under £400,000 to £11.5 million, as seen in Country Life
This week's pick of the best homes to come to market via Country Life includes a Berkshire house where old and new meet head on — and get on perfectly.
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Dawn Chorus: Chandeliers and marble floors in Britain's most eye-popping £750,000 house, plus and our Quiz of the Day
A house in a Lancashire town where you get a LOT for your money, plus nature, Christmast presents and our Quiz of the Day: it's our daily Dawn Chorus.
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Dawn Chorus: The photographer-florist creating modern Grand Masters, plus Ashdown Forest and our Quiz of the Day
A look at the work of Harald Altmaier, an unusual solution to an imaginary problem, and much more besides in today's Dawn Chorus.
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How to choose a Christmas tree — and then keep it alive once you get it home
Expert advice on Christmas trees, good news for English bluebells, plus our Quiz of the Day and more — it's all in Tuesday's Dawn Chorus.
