Country Life

Time to get away

FOR the majority of readers of this magazine, the notion that ‘the countryside is a nice place to be’ would hardly register as news. Each week, we celebrate the very best that this green and pleasant land produces, from peacocks, pigs and peregrine falcons to the finest houses (for sale, for rent or simply to look around), music and art.

As the lockdown threw into sharp relief how important green space and Nature are to our mental and physical wellbeing, so, too, has it adjusted

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