Country Life

Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today. It has a unique core mix of contemporary country-related editorial and top end property advertising. Editorially, the magazine comments in-depth on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, the arts, gardens and gardening, travel, the countryside, field-sports and wildlife. With renowned columnists and superb photography Country Life delivers the very best of British life every week.

Miss Georgina Emily Gill • Georgina is the founder of Tailored Touch Gifts and holds a degree in Retailing, Marketing and Management from Loughborough University. She is engaged to Joseph Wimpenny, whom she will marry next year. She is the daughter of Lisa Gill of Shepley, West Yorkshire.

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Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

A time for renewal

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Minette Batters

We have much to learn from Africa • A rewarding trip to Kenya, planning a maiden speech in the Lords and hope for farming’s roadmap in 2025 and beyond

From Heaven to Earth • In the second of two articles, William Aslet explains how the opulent interiors of this house were completed and the manner in which conversion into a golf club saved the building

The legacy • Sir Hugh Munro and Munro-bagging

For every walk of life • A dozen walks to do before you die–lifelong walker Fiona Reynolds selects 12 exhilarating experiences that have personal meaning for her, from mountains to cities, coasts to river valleys

There’s no place like home • Lassie’s epic walk is the stuff of literary legend, but the real-life stories of animals making extraordinary journeys back to where they came from are even stranger than fiction. How do they do it? Richard Sugg investigates

It’s only words • Flother, chibbly, hogamadog and gomble: Paul Anthony Jones introduces a long-lost winter vocabulary to warm the coldest of hearts

Bless you • Once considered a luxury item and given as a love token–or even used as a makeshift toothbrush–the handkerchief still offers an elegance sorely lacking in a packet of paper tissues, says Matthew Dennison

Get invested • Layering is essential on chilly days, says Hetty Lintell, whether at home or in the mountains

The designer’s room • Interior designer Sean Symington was asked to add character to the sitting room of this Tudor farmhouse in Suffolk

Winter warmers • Traditional-style stoves, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Bonnie banks, cliffs and seas • A review of glorious estates sold last year to buyers in pursuit of the Scottish dream

Burning love • In chilly, dark January, few things are more cheering than a roaring log fire. Here are Arabella Youens’s favourite examples from houses currently on the market

Gene genius • The glorious new strains of Evolution hellebores have produced plants in countless beautiful shades and, writes Charles Quest-Ritson, there are still more to come

Winter in Greece

I’ve got the hots for you • A true Lancastrian legend, the hotpot–when made with tasty, slow-cooked mutton, a hearty gravy and topped with thinly sliced crispy potato–is the Henry V of stews, declares Tom Parker Bowles

Sing me, O Muse • Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant turned classical deities into a burst of colour and form that kindled Philip Mould’s passion for the Bloomsbury Group, finds Carla Passino

All in the family • Whether he turned his hand to the seasons or the Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder stood out as one of the Renaissance’s greatest artists, but he was also the...