Land of Hope and Glory: British Country Life Episode 2
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For almost 120 years, Country Life magazine has been the property bible for anyone looking to buy a grand country house. Jane Treays, (Inside Claridge's), spent a year visiting cottages, manor houses and castles through the eyes of the magazine - and seeing how people live in them - from a crumbling historic mansion in Oxfordshire and a glorious Scottish estate basking in it's £13 million refurbishment to the inherited turrets of Picton Castle in Wales, and the noisy environment of the huntsman's 18th century kennels and cottage.
Our obsession with the rural dream - if money were no object, what sort of house would we have ... However, only 18% of us live in the country and many of us are divorced from a rural way of life... What is the reality of the rural dream?
** Milton Manor, Oxon - Anthony Mockler Barratt and Gwenda, ancestral inheritors, John Goodall
** Nicky Haslam - renting the hunting lodge - Arabella Youens
** Kinross - Donald Fothergill, millionaire owner- Clive Aslet
** Nicky Philipps - Picton Castle, descendant and artist
** Chiddingfold, Leckonfield and Cowdray hunt - Sage Thompson, huntsman, Rupert Uloth
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** Annie Tempest, cartoonist, Norfolk
** Wardington Manor, Molly Walters, amazing plasterwork, Mary Miers
** Sir Roy Strong
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Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by HRH The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of modern rural life and all its diverse joys and pleasures — that was first published in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year. Our eclectic mixture of witty and informative content — from the most up-to-date property news and commentary and a coveted glimpse inside some of the UK's best houses and gardens, to gardening, the arts and interior design, written by experts in their field — still cannot be found in print or online, anywhere else.
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