By their pet dogs let them be known; chatelaines of great houses, keen hunters and countrywomen to their boots. They run shoots, fending off their husband’s soaking wet spaniels and…
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Gardening With Colour
So much of both the enjoyment and frustration of gardening comes from attempting to bring together plants that will enhance each other in look, in habit and, especially, in colour…
Field Interview: Clare Balding
“I’m very keen on Portuguese water dogs, Boxers of course. Oh, and I love lurchers and whippets. And the Hungarian pumi is a rather fabulous herding dog but rare in…
February 2024
Our February issue is brimming with top-quality sport and travel with everything you need to know for a Fieldy adventure at home or abroad. We reveal our list of the…
Six of the best properties on the market
BLAITHWAITE ESTATE WIGTON, CUMBRIA Blaithwaite House is a Grade II-listed property with 13 bedrooms. The sale includes The Stables – a courtyard development with eight bedrooms – along with a…
Rizzini Artemis Light 12-bore review
This month we look at a Rizzini Artemis Light, a 30in over-and-under built around a sideplated, Ergal alloy-bodied, triggerplate action. It has a single selective trigger, is steel shot proofed…
How to make the ultimate point-to-point picnic
Is it going to be your 4×4 that has a group clustered around it at picnic time? Will your point-to-point picnic be the ultimate? Follow our advice and you’ll have…
The Recipe For The Perfect Hunt Ball
“I have been to so many incredibly dreadful parties and you have to sit next to such boring people. But at the perfect hunt ball no one says ‘How many…
The Field’s bucket list for a sporting year
We all aspire to having an iconic sporting moment. However sadly we rarely achieve them. It might be the red-letter day when you catch a trout on the mayfly, or…
The Field’s Ultimate Fishing Guide for 2024
There is little doubt that the UK offers some of the most fascinating fishing in the most wonderful of settings, if you know where to look. Getting away from life’s…