What you'll find inside Country Life's 2024 Christmas Double issue, the biggest in 128 years of the magazine's history
Country Life 11/18 December 2024 is our iconic Christmas Double Issue, with 318 pages of Christmas cheer.
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What you'll find inside the 2024 Country Life Christmas Double Issue
Country Life 11/18 December 2024 is our iconic Christmas Double Issue, with 318 pages of Christmas cheer.
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This week's issue of Country Life — and how to subscribe or get your copy
Find out what's in this week's issue of Country Life — and how to save over 50% on the cover price when you take out a subscription.
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A Brussels sprout recipe that sounds completely bizarre, but will make you glad you didn't wait until Christmas to start eating them
Anyone for Brussels sprout spaghetti carbonara? No, really — wait until you try it.
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'You need to be able to pull up the drawbridge': How to make multi-generational living work
For a young, growing family, moving in with, or adjacent to, the grandparents could be just the thing, says Madeleine Silver.
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Dawn Chorus: Santa's sleigh up for sale, the Royal photographs and sketches going on show, plus our Quiz of the Day
Today's Dawn Chorus looks ahead to an exhibition set to delight at Buckingham Palace next year.
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A Cotswolds manor for sale that one of Henry VIII's wives was granted in her divorce settlement
Broughton Hall, in the very heart of the Cotswolds, is a majestic home with a fascinating history — including ownership by Anne of Cleves. Penny Churchill takes a look.
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Eyes wide shut: The art of sleeping
Sleep takes many shapes in art, whether sensual or drunken, deathly or full of nightmares, but it is rarely peaceful. Even slumbering babies can convey anxiety, discovers Claudia Pritchard.
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A farmhouse and 200 acres of the Lake District for sale at the same price as a two-bedroom flat in Barnet
A beautiful farm with spectacular views and potential to create a lifestyle business, plus a truly magical winter scene and our Quiz of the Day.
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12 magical homes for sale, including a £600k cottage which will make you want to drop everything and move to the country
Our weekly look at the best homes to come to the market via Country Life includes some real gems — including a country house with a tennis court that looks like it could have been lifted from Wimbledon.
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The trees with fruits so sweet and delectable that badgers have been known to batter their way through iron gates to get to them
Garden designer and writer Isabel Bannerman doesn't normally advocate taking plants from one house to another — but her mulberry tree has been with her for years.
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What to do when your dog is aggressive towards other dogs while out on a walk
A-list dog trainer Ben Randall tells the tale of tackling a tricky issue with a dog getting aggressive while out on its daily walk.
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Stationers’ Hall, one of London's best-kept secrets: 'The observant pedestrian might briefly glimpse it through an archway. Most pass by oblivious'
The home of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers Established in 1403, the Stationers’ Company was long responsible for regulating the printing industry. Lucy Denton looks at the history of this remarkable institution and its headquarters: Stationers’ Hall, London EC4.
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Kate Bush's former home is for sale — and it’s a minor miracle of Georgian beauty and modern engineering
The country market might be calming down before Christmas, writes Penny Churchill, but this house will have people running up that hill to take a look.
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The original ULEZ-style enforcement? How the Victorians taxed all the coal coming in to London
Martin Fone takes a look at the history of London's coalgates, and finds that the idea of taxing things as they enter the City of London is centuries old.
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The Country Life guide to North Cornwall: Where to go, what to see, where to stay and what to eat
Its famous beaches throng with visitors in the summer, but the north of the county is a delight at any time of year — and it’s possible to escape the crowds and find the best places to go if you know how, say Emma Hughes and Paula Lester.
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Rip it up and start again: RHS Wisley's daring reinvention of one of its most famous plantings
Piet Oudolf, father of the New Perennial Movement, has dug up his famous double borders at the Royal Horticultural Society’s garden at Wisley in Surrey and transformed them. John Hoyland takes a look, with photographs by Clive Nichols.
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The happiest places to live in Britain, including the gorgeous town that's 'like living in a Constable painting'
This riverside spot has topped Rightmove’s annual ranking for the first time, taking the crown from Richmond upon Thames. Here’s why.
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'Fractals are everywhere, even within the human body: our nervous system, blood vessels and the structure of our brain and lungs'
What do spiders’ webs, snowflakes and snail shells have in common? They all contain fractals: Nature’s exquisite, endlessly repeating mathematical pattern.
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A 27-bedroom dream castle dubbed 'one of the loveliest houses in England', with secret doorways, loggia and gorgeous views
Looking to buy something really special for Christmas? The good news is that the historic Grade I-listed Wytham Abbey is on the market. The bad news is that you'll need an eight-figure budget...
