Country Life

Published by TI Media Limited 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 Charlotte Scott • Charlotte is an advertising professional, whose past clients include The Macallan. She is the daughter of Alexander and Jillian Scott of Cold Aston, Gloucestershire, and will marry Oscar Lewisohn at St Andrew’s Church, Cold Aston, Gloucestershire, next June. Charlotte follows in the footsteps of her great-great-aunt, Lady Margaret Hamilton-Russell, who appeared on the Frontispiece on May 23, 1908.

Sheep may safely graze

Country Life

Drawing a line under development • If the Government and developers had their way, vast swathes of the countryside would be covered in new homes. Charlotte Cooper finds out which rural communities have emerged victorious in David versus Goliath-style battles as they aim to keep their areas green

Town & Country Notebook

Stuff & nonsense

Letters to the Editor

The polarising of politics

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Jeremy Finnis

Country-house treasures

A golden fleece • Sheep farming transformed the architectural face of the Cotswolds in the late Middle Ages. John Goodall looks at some of the parish churches that were a product of the wealth it generated

Laurie Lee and Cider with Rosie

Are you local? • How many generations must pass before Cotswolds families are considered established, rather than ‘blow-ins’? Mary Skipwith visits five Gloucestershire estates with history to find out

The artist’s way • The redstart or ‘fireflirt’s’ painterly good looks aren’t the only attribute that bewitches Mark Cocker–its extraordinary talent for mimicry brings the whole world within reach

Don’t follow the lights • The story of Britain’s bogs, haunting places of minimalist metaphysical beauty, is not one of requiem, but resistance, finds John Lewis-Stempel

Something for everyone • The practicality of the Burberry Trench first appealed to army officers and Antarctic explorers. Later, its stylish androgyny made it the choice of punks and princesses. Now, an exhibition at the V&A will celebrate its remarkable story

Sleeping beauties • Settle down with Amie Elizabeth White’s night-time essentials

Recipes for success • Elegant ideas for every kitchen, selected by Amelia Thorpe

To the manors reborn • This collection of immaculately presented Cotswold houses reflects a growing trend for mixing the contemporary with the traditional in restoration

The covetable Cotswolds • An address in this National Landscape holds sway, as nothing beats it for honey-coloured hues, heritage and handsome horizons

Paint your garden • It’s impossible to resist the charms of this bustling, colourful garden, which reaches its zenith in late summer. Tiffany Daneff visits

Gate expectations

Kitchen garden cook Pears

Where credit is dew • If Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water, they may well have been visiting a dew pond, suggests John Wright

Where empires meet • At the crossroads of ancient civilisations in Greece, an Ottoman masterpiece built to foster tolerance has been painstakingly restored, finds Teresa Levonian Cole

Strike a posy • Long before emojis were used for cryptic communication, posies...