Country Life 10 June 2020
Country Life 10 June 2020 is one of our great highlights of the year: our Best of Britain special issue.


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AROUND BRITAIN IN 40 MONARCHS: John Goodall traces our nation's history through places and objects that have been special to our kings and queens.
THE ALL-BRITISH DIET: Rupert Ponsonby tries to live on 100% British food.
ORWELL'S ANIMALS: Julie Harding explains that the writer knew far more about farm animals than you might have thought.
NORTH WESSEX DOWNS: Our series looking at Britain's AONB's continues.
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PROPERTY: Latest property news and best homes for sale.
MY FAVOURITE PAINTING: Curator Alice Strang makes her choice.
WILLIAM CECIL: 500 years on from his birth, a look at the man who built Bughley.
ISLAND OF SHOPKEEPERS: Will we move from buying online to buying local?
TOM'S TOP TOMATOES: Tom Parker-Bowles shares his tomato tips.
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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Rodel House: The Georgian marvel in the heart of the Outer Hebrides
An improving landlord in the Outer Hebrides created a remote Georgian house that has just undergone a stylish, but unpretentious remodelling, as Mary Miers reports. Photographs by Paul Highnam for Country Life.
By Mary Miers
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380 acres and 90 bedrooms on the £25m private island being sold by one of Britain's top music producers
Stormzy, Rihanna and the Rolling Stones are just a part of the story at Osea Island, a dot on the map in the seas off Essex.
By Lotte Brundle