Country Life's 10 most beautiful Instagram posts of 2020
Our most-liked posts of the year show exactly what our ethos is: celebrating the best that our spectacularly beautiful country has to offer.

1. Jevington, East Sussex
2. Castle Combe, Wiltshire
3. The Cotswolds
4. Whoever called the 'duckling' ugly never met these chaps
5. Upton Wold, Gloucestershire
6. Home schooling, farmyard style
7. The colours of Grasmere
8. The private gardens at Petworth
9. Tintern Abbey
10. George Saumarez Smith's study
11. Why have one dog when you can have five?
12. The Gower Peninsula
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Toby Keel is Country Life's Digital Director, and has been running the website and social media channels since 2016. A former sports journalist, he writes about property, cars, lifestyle, travel, nature.
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