For any Londoner, there’s nothing quite like “a weekend in the countryside” for a swift, three-day reset. The countryside, by design, is what many crave: long, muddy walks in the woods, a cosy country ...

09:43, Sun, Jul 20, 2025 Updated: 09:49, Sun, Jul 20, 2025 A pair who swapped their noisy London rental for countryside homeownership claim life beyond the capital offers superior quality. Tori Halman ...

A couple who traded renting a noisy London flat for owning a home in the countryside say there is a better quality of life outside the city. Tori Halman, 31, and her boyfriend Rob Overall, 30, moved ...

The London property market is bouncing back as fewer people in the capital search for countryside homes and others who have left consider moving back, experts say. More Londoners are now deciding to ...

London got its first underground railway 150 years ago on Wednesday and the Metropolitan Railway became a true gateway to the countryside by transforming the capital and the way people lived. BBC ...

House hunters are flocking back to London in their droves after the Covid-era exodus that saw the capital empty of homeowners. Just under three years ago in August 2021, nearly half of London-based ...

I love the countryside. I’m a writer and have a rather romantic view of it; I think of Beatrix Potter writing in the Lake District and novels by Thomas Hardy set in the wild country. And yet, I was ...