You can leave your hat on

Eleven friends of COUNTRY LIFE pen a love letter to their small, yet oh so distinctive patches of the British Isles, from the big skies of the north Norfolk coast to the street art of Belfast, from the glens of Perthshire to the Exe estuary in Devon via the apple orchards of Herefordshire

In an ordinary county in the English Midlands, one writer found and shared the extra ordinary.

LONG before Sir David Attenborough enthralled us with his worldwide wonders of wildlife, there lived a humble curate in a Hampshire village. Astonishingly, it was this parochial parson who came to inf

BACK in 1606, Lord North was unwell. His “lingering consumptive disorder” baffled his doctors. A stay in a remote hunting lodge cadged from a friend hadn’t helped, but on a country ride he came across

For those who prefer not to follow the crowd, we reveal some of the best, but relatively undiscovered places to enjoy in the country’s chicest region

MOORLAND MYTH AND LEGEND