Country Life 31 August 2022

Country Life 31 August 2022 pays tribute to horses, takes a look at the creation of a beautiful walled garden and enjoys the greatest sounds of nature.

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‘We are still a nation of horse lovers’

Kate Green talks to Baron de Mauley, Master of the Horse, about equine lives good and bad

Now that’s what I call country music

The splash of a stream, the clip-clop of hooves, the lark’s song: we should cherish our sounds, avers John Lewis-Stempel

Where horses meet houses

Country-house eventing creates unique and envied amphitheatres for the sport, says Kate Green

Wild riding

Octavia Pollock finds liberty is all as she gallops across Dartmoor

Within these walls

The six acres of the Holkham Walled Garden, Norfolk, have been restored and are again productive. David Hurrion visits

School Life

Embracing coastal learning (page 102), new paths to a top career (page 108), why English literature matters (page 112) and what makes stand-alone schools special (page 114)

Christopher Woodward’s favourite painting

The director of the Garden Museum picks an unusual Freud

Masterpiece

Jack Watkins returns to the lost glories of Wyatt’s The Pantheon

House of dreams

In the second of two articles, Clive Aslet looks inside Ardfin on the Isle of Jura, a Victorian lodge-turned-modern home

Interiors

The best of bathrooms

Luxury

Scarves for Ukraine, Clodagh McKenna’s favourite things and watches to wear forever

Kitchen garden cook

Melanie Johnson chops celery

Far away and long ago

Few remember W. H. Hudson, the mysteriously named founder member of the RSPB, but this writer should be better known, believes John Lewis-Stempel


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The Tower of the Victorian St Vincent Street Church designed by Alexander Greek Thomson beside the Pinnacle Building in Glasgow

Jason Goodwin: ‘Memories fade. Gavin was right: buildings outlive us all and they’re each memorials. They should not be allowed to disappear’

Our columnist remembers Gavin Stamp, the architectural critic, historian and campaigner.

Country Life

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.