Their way to heaven

The garden at Salthrop Manor, Wiltshire The home of Sophie Conran

When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York

Tricia Guild, the founder of Designers Guild, on why Cornwall’s rugged landscape holds a special place in her heart

In March 2019, gardener Jo Downes dropped in to Corsley House in Wiltshire to see a friend, and by the time she left she had a job. Glen Senk and Keith Johnson, Anglophile Americans who had bought the

When gossip and rumour led to the trial of two Prussian pastors

Discover how the UK’s country houses defied the odds to survive as historic monuments and cultural centres