Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd 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 Elizabeth Laura Baxter • Lizzie is the founder of her eponymous interior design-focused PR and communications agency, having previously worked for Martin Brudnizki Design Studio. She is the daughter of Andrew and Laura Baxter of Pirton, Worcestershire, and the wife of Ian Turner of Maryland, US. They were married in July 2019.

All together now • With the relaxation of coronavirus rules, the Revd Richard Coles applauds the ingenious ‘virtual’ ways we have found to worship and rejoices in being able to gather in church to celebrate Christmas–albeit at a social distance

Country Life

A high road to clean energy

Good week for

Mystery on the riverbank

Bad week for

A winning present

Over the sea to the green island

When lockdown turns to gold

Country Mouse • Rocks of ages

Town Mouse • Christmas Present

COUNTRY LIFE • December 18, 1920

Town & Country Notebook

Wines of the week

Contact us (photographs welcome)

Letters to the Editor

An odd Christmas, but one to remember

Athena • Cultural Crusader

The way we were • Photographs from the COUNTRY LIFE archive

On the record • Carols from King’s will be broadcast on BBC2 and Radio 4 on Christmas Eve and on Radio 3 on Christmas Day

‘You’ll always hear the sound of this building’ • The 16th King’s College Cambridge choirmaster on this year’s unusual carol service

The Archbishop of York

Haphazard by starlight • Time to wait, time to wonder

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow • Dreamt of by children and dreaded by adults in equal measure, a world muffled by freshly fallen snow is undeniably a thing of wonder and delight, says Jonathan Self

All white on the night: 10 great British snow events

Snow survival

The language of snow

Words on the white stuff

Riches not measured in coin • This year marks the 700th anniversary of the canonisation of Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford. John Goodall looks at the story of this building and the way it was shaped by a remarkable figure

Oh sing, choirs of angels • Loosely translated as ‘when the cock crows at dawn’, Plygain carol services have been held in Welsh churches on Christmas Day since the 13th century, as Aeneas Dennison reports

Let’s talk turkey • They’re easy to rear, they’re friendly and they needn’t only be for Christmas. Kate Green talks to turkey experts, who explain why we should be eating the heritage breeds

How to cook a native

Five reasons turkeys are cool

Weighty issues

The boy, the mole, the fox, the horse and me • Charlie Mackesy, author and illustrator of a bestselling and poignant book that celebrates kindness and understanding, tells Katy Birchall why there’s no shame in showing weakness and asking for help

Remembrance through rose-tinted glass • Hauntingly beautiful, stained-glass scenes keep the memory of our Fallen alive in glorious technicolour. Andrew Green visits country churches to seek them out

Art of glass

Six more to see

Rockin’ around the Christmas tree • Bombarded as we are in the preceding weeks, for many, it is the...