Country Life Magazine

The walled garden at Spetchley Park, Worcestershire. Spetchley's beautiful buildings and interiors were featured last year in Country Life. This time around it's the garden which takes centre stage, an autumnal delight to lift your spirits despite the best efforts of the weather gods to dampen th...

Is it just us? Or when you see a picture like this, does it become a thousand times easier to understand how the people of the ancient world based so much of their lore and religion around the movements in the skies?Modern street lighting means such views are lost to man of us, but unspoilt starg...

'Otters have always been with us,' writes Laura Parker in the cover story of this week's Country Life. 'Bright-eyed and bewhiskered', with 'fantastically thick fur', the 'otter face, with its small, round, low-set ears, is hard not to love.'A species older than humans by several million years, Lu...

Why do so many animals have bright white bottoms? It's the question we've all been wondering. If you're best defence against the predator is to hide, then why make yourself so easy to see? The answer might surprise you....---#countrylife #rabbit #deer #foxes #fluffytail

Abbi Pulling is a racing car driver who currently competes in @britishf4 and @f1academy a female-only, single seater racing championship.Last weekend, she took a win and a third place at Circuit Zandvoort, in the Netherlands, extending her lead in the F1 Academy standings to 71 points. And in Ma...

Fancy your own mini-manoir in Herefordshire? Step forward Paunton Court, an eight-bedroom family home that produces 6,000-8,000 bottles a year. We'll drink to that.---#countrylife #housesforsale #vineyard #vineyardforsale #wine #herefordshire #countrylifeproperty

Cars, ponies, thoroughbreds and 4x4s... there's a horsepower theme running throughout Country Life this week: Shetland ponies who take tea in the kitchen, the best cars for every person (and budget), the Burghley Horse Trials and a trek to conquer Britain's Three Peaks with a sturdy pair of shoes...

It's all happening north of the border this week, as we take a look at Scotland in this special issue. We've got the best property for sale. We find out what's going on with the Stone of Scone. We look at the forests of the future what is the right tree? Where should we plant them? And, as alway...

Many of us were wowed by the Perseid Meteor Shower that lit up the skies over the UK earlier in the week. Thankfully the intrepid photographer Josh 'Starman' Dury got his camera out, and spent 3.5 hours at Stonehenge, compiling 43 images of the meteors 'raining down' on the Wiltshire heritage sit...

Rarer than a giant panda? Yes. And not just the Albion cow either. Some of our rare native breeds need our help to survive, and we've profiled the farmers and charities already doing the vital work to save these species. Pick up this week's issue to learn all about these cute cows, goofy goats an...

A hut beside the River Coupall, sitting in the shadow of Stob Dearg the tallest peak of Buachaille Etive Mr, and one of the finest sights in the Highlands. As grand as the country houses, lodges and castles are in this part of the world, there's something magical about the simplicity of spots su...

A country house complete with pond for your local Mr Darcy to take a dip.