Town versus earl

Glamis Castle, Angus, part 2 The seat of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

This year marks the 625th anniversary of The Canterbury Tales author – and “father of English literature” – Geoffrey Chaucer’s death. He penned this classic, about a merry band of medieval pilgrims te

Glamis Castle, Angus, part 1 The seat of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

It is one of the wealthiest counties in England, with no signs of an exodus of money, say agents. Here are three exceptional country houses for sale in a fashionable area

A clock that first struck the hour as ...

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