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Country Life
The voice of the countryside
Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and most instantly recognisable brands in the UK today. The magazine comments in depth on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, property, the arts, gardens and gardening, the countryside, schools and wildlife. This eclectic editorial mix, combined with stunning photography and high-end property advertising ensures that week after week, Country Life is read by people who live the real country house lifestyle.
Countrylife.co.uk brings over 125 years of editorial and commercial excellence to the web and is one of the best and most enjoyable places to browse for luxury property for sale online.
The site also showcases the best of the editorial from Country Life magazine as well as carrying its own exclusive online content covering rural news, seasonal recipes and countryside events.
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Yes, mince pies used to contain meat — and this Victorian recipe will convince you that they should to this day
Once packed with meat, such as ox tongue and mutton, alongside dried and candied fruit and extravagant spices, the mince pie is not what it once was — and food historian Neil Buttery says that's made them worse.
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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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Unputdownable: The books you wish you had been given for Christmas
Country Life's reviewers name the books that have most absorbed them this year, with topics ranging from grey partridges to cricket, rock music, wolves and medieval history, plus the most diverting fiction.
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Five bedrooms and an indoor pool nestled into the sought after slopes of England's fourth-highest mountain
Ben Y Craig near Keswick might be one of the best houses in one of the most sought after locations in the Lake District National Park.
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The 2024 Country Life Editor's Christmas Quiz: The Answers
How did you do? Check your answers to the quiz
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The 2024 Country Life Editor's Christmas quiz
It's Christmas day. You've probably run out of things to talk about. Why not do this quiz to pass the time? Answers will be posted at 1:30pm tomorrow.
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The Country Life Christmas message by Revd Dr Colin Heber-Percy: ‘The most powerful person in the world’ is not an emperor, high priest or CEO, but a helpless baby in the arms of a loving mother
Revd Dr Colin Heber-Percy on how Christmas shows us that ‘the most powerful person in the world’ is not an emperor, or a high priest or the CEO of a tech company, but a helpless baby in the arms of a loving mother.
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14 of the greatest movie posters in cinema
The right poster can evoke a film without words, stir nostalgia and entice viewers into cinemas.
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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 25 December 2024
Country Life 25 December 2024 — which you'll most likely find on sale on December 24th — is our final issue of 2024.
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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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The greatest pies of Christmas past, including 300lb whopper that included 20 rabbits, 15 woodcock, a curlew and 46 yellowhammers
Today’s baked goods pale in comparison to a Georgian festive speciality, says food historian Neil Buttery, as he lifts the lid on the Yorkshire Christmas Pye.
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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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13 country homes for sale, starting from under £375,000, as seen in Country Life
We take a look at some of the best homes to come up for sale via Country Life in the past week or so.
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Charles Quest-Ritson: Walnuts are one of the gardener's greatest pleasures — but you'll have to be ready for the squirrels
Once you are hooked by walnuts and want to grow more varieties, you find an extraordinary amount of choice. Charles Quest-Ritson explains more.
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How the humble potato became the most important part of Christmas lunch, and how you can make them crunchier than ever
We all aspire to cook roast potatoes with the elusive shatteringly crisp shell and cloud-like interior, salivates Emma Hughes, as she discovers the golden rules for serving up the crunchiest of spuds
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'A robin redbreast in a cage puts all Heaven in a rage': Why this charming little bird is the nation's favourite
We’re more emotionally connected to the robin than any other bird, says Mark Cocker, as he considers why we feel so much affection for this sweet-songed, yet feisty Christmas-card favourite.
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Thomas Hardy and the country house: 'Irregularity is the genius of Gothic architecture'
With the help of specially commissioned drawings by Matthew Rice, Jeremy Musson considers the abiding presence of the stone-built manor house in the stories of Thomas Hardy.
