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Escape to the Country is a reality TV series that premiered on BBC One on October 14, 2002. It has 27 seasons and 1,307 episodes so far and is still airing new episodes. The latest episode, Season 27 Episode 28, aired on October 13, 2026.
The property show that helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country.
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1,307 episodes · 27 seasons
2002 · 23 episodes · Last episode: 23 years ago
Kindly Catherine Gee and that nice Nick Page help buyers to find their dream home away from all the hustle and bustle. A move to Perthshire in search of snow.
The city exodus continues! An IT specialist from Islington in north London seeks a sense of community and is looking for a place in the New Forest.
Finding a dream rural home, with Catherine Gee and Nick Page. A couple look for a country pad in Lyme Regis after years of commuting in London.
That nice Nick Page helps prospective buyers find their dream rural homes. A clairvoyant and her partner see a future for themselves on the Cornish coast.
Catherine Gee and Nick Page help a couple who want to get out of the London rat race and care for their son in Cambridgeshire.
Catherine Gee and Nick Page help people track down dream homes. Cyclists Christabel Jones and Ian Harper are looking for a better life for their son James.
The Steinbeck-Reeveses want to trade their Victorian townhouse in Chelsea for a house in the shires, so they wisely enlist the help of Catherine and Nick.
Catherine Gee and Nick Page unearth more dream homes. Charity worker Claire Felix wants to be able to foster more children, so yearns for a move to rural Essex.
Catherine Gee comes to the aid of a Bristol family that wants to buy a property in the picturesque Wye Valley. With £330,000 to spend, it needs somewhere with outbuildings, space for the children to play and plenty of peace and quiet
Gardener Jackie and poet John are searching for inspiration in the Shropshire countryside. Catherine Gee and Nick Page plan an escape route for them.
Catherine Gee and Nick Page help prospective home buyers. A South African family living in Leeds look for the perfect country house in North Yorkshire.
Catherine Gee and Nick Page help prospective buyers to find their dream homes. Gordon Mathieson and wife Janice want to give up their life in London to start a new business.
Another dream come true - hopefully - for a couple tired of city life. Stuart and Katie have their hearts set on the wilds of Sussex for their next home.
Catherine and Nick lend their relocation talents to Bolton radio DJ Joe Fish. He wants to escape the town and take root in the Lake District.
Catherine Gee and Nick Page help prospective buyers to find their dream homes. Gordon Mathieson and wife Janice want to give up their life in London to start a new business.
Catherine Gee and Nick Page do their best to help prospective buyers to find their dream home. A couple from Leeds go house-hunting on the Isle of Anglesey.
Catherine Gee and Nick Page help city dwellers flee the big smoke. A London couple look for a house near Bath which still has good access to the city.
Rural relocations with Catherine Gee and Nick Page. A retired couple from Congleton in Cheshire are looking for peace and quiet in Wales.
A couple from Wakefield go house-hunting in Shropshire, aided by Catherine Gee and Nick Page.
More rural adventures with Catherine Gee and Nick Page. A London couple are looking to move from the fumes of Burnt Oak in north London and settle in Suffolk.
Catherine Gee and Nick Page help Bristol couple Dawn and John Parry, who have decided to trade in their Victorian town house for a house in West Somerset and come armed with a budget of £400,000.
Catherine Gee and Nick Page help find a dream property in the Peak District.
Catherine Gee and Nick Page help people buy dream homes. A young couple are looking for a West Country home where they can generate their own electricity.
2007 · 16 episodes · Last episode: 18 years ago
Melissa Porter house hunts in rural Essex for a family who have lived in Colchester for decades.
Nick Page looks for a property in Devon for a husband and wife who are fed up with the sounds from their noisy neighbour, the M25.
Nick Page helps a group of university friends who want to find a home and set up a surfing school in Cornwall.
The Camerons have lived in Reading for over two decades but now want a more peaceful life in the Bedfordshire countryside. Will Nick Page be able to find a perfect home for the Camerons and their huge book collection?
Catherine Gee helps two doctors and their young family find a five-bedroom house in the Welsh countryside.
Catherine Gee and Nick Page help prospective buyers buy rural dream homes. A couple from Cardiff want to start a new life in the Forest of Dean. But what will their three adult children, who all live with them, say about it?
Catherine Gee sets out to find fireman Wyn Jenkins and his family their dream home in Monmouthshire. But can Catherine find a house big enough for the family and enough land for their horse?
Catherine Gee looks for a property in Shropshire for a young family with high expectations.
Catherine Gee looks for a property in Somerset for a young family needing a wheelchair-friendly home.
Nick Page looks for a property in Herefordshire for a frugal restaurateur and his wife keen not to overspend on their new home.
Nick Page looks at four unusual houses for a young family who want to leave London to live a more rural life in East Sussex. Properties include a house dating back to the 15th century and an oast house on a lake.
Catherine Gee has a budget of £600,000 to help a young family move from Wakefield to rural Yorkshire. After 11 moves in 18 years, can she find these serial movers a permanent country home?
A couple fed up with their exclusive flat in London’s Piccadilly want to move to a unique historical home in the West Country. But will Nick be able to help them escape to the country?
Catherine Gee helps prospective buyers to find their dream home in the country. She has two budgets to find a couple a two/three bed house with land for the horses, in Somerset. The lower, £210,000, is based on them renting out their Bristol house, and the higher, £260,000, is based on them selling it. Catherine hopes to surprise them with what she finds in both price brackets.
Catherine Gee looks for a property in Gloucestershire for a family from Coventry keen to have the countryside at their doorstep.
Nick Page assists a couple of classic car enthusiasts from Castleford to escape to rural Yorkshire. They need a large house and enough garage space to park seven vintage cars.
18 episodes
Another family in search of a better life gets help to find their dream pad. Jack has signed to Chelsea's under 9's team, so his family want to move to Berkshire.
Catherine Gee helps a Derbyshire couple find their first house together in the Lincolnshire Fens on a budget of £225,000
Melissa Porter helps a Stockport couple search for a country house for less than £350,000 in Conwy, North Wales, which they hope will provide enough land for their new plans and hobbies
Melissa Porter helps Aylesbury couple Stuart and Sarah search for their dream cottage in Worcestershire. The pair have a budget of £320,000 to spend and the new property needs to have a garden big enough for their dog
A photographer and a passionate gardener decide to move out of their Northampton home, so Catherine Gee helps them look for an inspiring new property on the tranquil Pembrokeshire coast
Melissa Porter helps a couple from Aldershot, who are about to adopt two children, to start a new life in Cornwall on a budget of £370,000
Retired engineer Malcolm Allan has lived in Glasgow for 30 years, but is now looking for a more tranquil environment. Melissa Porter is on hand to help him find a traditional cottage in the Scottish Borders
Melissa Porter helps a family relocate from London to the Peak District on a budget of £600,000. Husband Tim wants a property he can fix up, but wife Donna isn't so sure about the idea
Melissa Porter helps a couple who met over the Internet find a home in Yorkshire. They have £250,000 to spend, and claim they are willing to renovate. However, the properties on offer may require more work than expected
Catherine Gee helps a pilot and a flight attendant find their ideal rural retreat together in Warwickshire. However, while they want a peaceful countryside setting, access to the airport is vital
Melissa Porter comes to the aid of a Notting Hill couple who want to buy a large country house in Dorset where they can raise their baby daughter. With up to £500,000 to spend, they need a property which has a garden big enough to install a swimming pool
Catherine Gee helps a couple with strong but opposing ideas search for a coastal property in rural Suffolk to fulfil their dream of living in the countryside - and enable the man of the house to be closer to his boat
Catherine Gee comes to the aid of music teachers Kathryn Stagg and Darren Lightowlers, who are looking for an isolated rural retreat in Buckinghamshire where they can practise without disturbing the neighbours
Catherine Gee helps a keen organic gardener from Nottingham find a property with plenty of land in rural Yorkshire on a budget of £300,000
Catherine Gee comes to the aid of a middle-aged couple who have decided to leave their busy town life in Leamington Spa and buy a home in rural Cornwall with plenty of space for gardening and access to good fishing
Melissa Porter comes to the aid of a Streatham couple who are fed up with living next to a railway line. They fancy somewhere quieter in Cambridgeshire, and have £350,000 to spend on their dream ho
Catherine Gee helps a Norwich family find its ideal property in Cumbria - and the pressure is on as the mother has already accepted a teaching post in the area but still has no home to go to
Catherine Gee comes to the aid of the secretary of Canvey Island FC, who has £500,000 to spend on a property in rural Essex, which must be within commuting distance of his beloved football ground
2008 · 19 episodes · Last episode: 18 years ago
The Haines are looking to swap the tourist hot spot of Torquay for the rural charms of East Anglia. With half a million pounds to find the detached property of their dreams it sounds like a simple job for Catherine Gee. But not when she's also got to find a fully functional annex for the family's grandparents, Pat and Len.
Catherine Gee meets a 75-year-old woman and her daughter who have £300,000 to spend on a four-bedroom house with views of the country or the sea in Norfolk
A couple who met in a Manchester bar in 2004 and are about to get married hope to swap their homes in Cheadle and Bury for a detached house in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Catherine Gee helps a 60-year-old woman who has lived in her eight-bedroom Liverpool house since birth to scale-down her work as a complementary therapist and move somewhere quieter, but with a large garden and on a budget of £200,000
Catherine Gee comes to the aid of a conservationist and a former air hostess who are searching for a two-bedroom cottage in the rural Peak District on a budget of £250,000
A Bristol-based couple who met while involved in a property sale, and who also own a place in France, hope to sell their home in the UK and buy another in the Wiltshire countryside on a budget of £300,000. Catherine Gee presents
A couple decide to retire to the country following a cancer scare, and look for a quiet period cottage on a budget of £350,000
Catherine Gee meets a family with £700,000 to spend, who want to swap their Port Talbot home with one on the north coast of Devon. Dad Steve runs a diving and marine repairs business in Swansea and plans to commute by boat, while his wife Pippa hopes her individual tastes won't be compromised by the move
Alison Taft and partner Mark Rusten have lived in their five-bedroom Edwardian house for five years. But with two small children and a front garden that leads to a busy road, they are looking to downsize to a smaller country house with a bigger garden.
Simon and Sam Clough have just had their first child and woken up to the fact that most of their friends have moved out of London. In a bid to follow them, they're looking for a detached family house in Hampshire, with a budget of up to £700,000.
Having lived in London's greenest borough for 11 years, Clare Ladd and her partner David Hackett are ready to swap city life for a B&B venture in the country. They restored their Edwardian house to its former glory and are now looking for a country house, ripe for refurbishment and renovation. Catherine Gee has a budget of 360,000 pounds to find it.
Tim Fisher and Bea Reitmeier have found love in later life with each other and are now looking to set up their first home together. Luckily, Tim works as a garden designer and Bea as a property developer. But can Catherine Gee find them what they're after, in an increasingly expensive area, with a budget of £500,000.
Catherine Gee comes to the rescue of the Smithson family from Nottingham who want to swap their three-bedroom, Thirties home for a property in the Lincolnshire countryside with a large garden on a budget of £300,000
Catherine Gee helps a bilingual couple move from Cardiff and return to their rural roots in the Welsh valleys and mountains. Rhys works as a fishing officer for the Welsh Tourist Board and is looking to indulge his favourite pastime more often, while Gwyneth is about to give birth to their second child and wants to be settled before the arrival
A family try to move away from their estate near the M25 into the Kent countryside, hoping their £300,000 budget can find them a period property with space for a photography dark room. They need to be near London, and want good schools. shops and pubs nearby - a real challenge for expert Catherine Gee
John and his daughter Emma are looking for a house in Cornwall to indulge their passion for extreme sports.
Advertising executive Jules Hinds has had enough of city life. Despite living in one of London's most desirable postcodes, NW3, she wants to swap her two bed Hampstead flat for a chocolate box cottage in the Cotswolds. To achieve her goal she has given Catherine Gee a wide ranging budget - between 300,000 and 500,000 pounds. But will Catherine have to spend all of her funds to find Jules the house of her dreams?
Kalle Hogh and partner Daniel Friend are looking to trade in their cramped one bedroom flat in London for a cottage in commutable Kent. Having both grown up in the countryside they want to return to their roots. Catherine Gee has a budget of £250,000 to find them a home with a garden and enough space for friends to stay.
Catherine Gee meets a family living in a Victorian terrace in Twickenham who are tired of the noise from the motorway and the Heathrow flight path. She helps them fulfil their dreams of finding some peace and quiet in north Oxfordshire on a budget of £500,000
2007 · 26 episodes · Last episode: 19 years ago
Series 5 saw the introduction of longstanding 'Escape To The Country' presenters Alistair Appleton and Jules Hudson alongside fellow presenter Melissa Porter.
Escape to the Country Series 5 release dates →Jules Hudson helps John and Sally Salter from Surrey find their ideal country retreat in South Devon. They are keen to start a dog agility business, so are looking for a country house with lots of land and outbuildings, which proves to be a challenge for Jules.
Jules Hudson goes house hunting with Martin Harvey and Joanna Whitehorn from Croydon, who are looking for a country retreat on the Surrey-Sussex border.
Melissa Porter is trying to find the perfect country property for Kaya Halil and Nazife Yilmaz from Essex.
Melissa Porter is house hunting in Somerset with Mark and Kelly Milsom who want to start a kennel business. They would like a house in a rural location with lots of land, but will Melissa manage to find them something suitable with their budget?
Alistair Appleton helps Amanda and Sarah Holland from Huddersfield find their ideal 1.1 million pound home in North Yorkshire. Will he manage to find a house that mother and daughter will agree on?
Jules Hudson is joined by Vanessa and Katie Novak from Sutton Coldfield, who are viewing country retreats in Oxfordshire. Can mother and daughter agree on what they really want, and will Jules find them their perfect home?
Jules Hudson is on the hunt for the perfect country property for Steve and Joanne Smith from Sheffield. The couple are keen to move to the Peak District and want an isolated location with stunning views. Will Jules manage to find the rural home of their dreams?
Jules Hudson is helping John and Sally Salter from Surrey find their ideal country retreat in South Devon. They are keen to start a dog agility business so are looking for a country house with lots of land and outbuildings – a real challenge for Jules.
Melissa Porter helps house hunt the perfect country home in Wiltshire.
Melissa Porter is in Suffolk with Elaine and Alan Tomlinson from Kent on a quest to find them their perfect country home. They have a healthy budget to spend but want a lot for their money - can Melissa rise to the challenge?
Jules Hudson has four properties arranged for Roy and Clare King to view in Gloucestershire. The couple currently live in South East Wales and are keen to find a house big enough for their family and horses in the Forest of Dean. Will Jules manage to come up trumps?
Allan and Susan Sneller are being shown a selection of country houses by Jules Hudson in Carmarthenshire, South Wales. The couple are keen to quit the rat race of the South East for a more relaxed life in South Wales, but can Jules find something to tempt them?
Melissa Porter is house hunting with Jenny Bowen and Simon Whittles, who are keen to trade life in Birmingham for a village in Staffordshire. They want a country home with all the trimmings in a rural location – but will their budget cope with their demands?
Melissa Porter helps Noreen and Danny French try and find the perfect property for their escape to the country. Danny is an air traffic controller and is due to make the move to the new centre at Swanwick near Southampton, so the couple are keen to find a village home nearby. With a new baby on the way, the pressure is on.
Melissa Porter meets Milka and Brian Rusk who are desperate to leave Darlington and start a business in Lincolnshire. They want to buy a country pub to run an African-themed restaurant and so Melissa's property search is rather a challenge.
Alistair Appleton house-hunts for a couple who are desperate to relocate for work reasons. They are after a three-bedroom house and have a healthy budget but Alistair has problems finding them what they want.
Alistair Appleton helps a couple from Norwood search for a dream home in the picturesque east Sussex countryside that will satisfy their needs
Alistair Appleton comes to the aid of Paul and Nicki Jukes who want to move from Windsor to the Cotswolds before their new baby is born. While the couple have a reasonable budget, their opinions differ over the properties presented to them
Alistair Appleton is helping Felicity and Philip Wright to find the perfect house in North Cornwall, where they hope to start a diving business.
Alistair Appleton is in rural Shropshire with Jackie and Joe Barnes, who want to move from Milton Keynes to near Ludlow.
Melissa Porter goes house-hunting for Jacqueline and Geoff Hughes from Surrey who are relocating to east Devon to start a new life with their three young daughters
Jules Hudson is in Lincolnshire helping house hunters Warren Archer and Steven Barritt from Maidenhead to find their perfect new home.
Alistair Appleton helps James and Monica, who live in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, and are keen to trade in city life for the wilds of north Devon.
Jules Hudson is on the hunt for the perfect country escape for Emma Cook and Malachi Trout, who live in Twickenham and are desperate to move to Dorset. Emma wants to live by the coast and Malachi is happy to go further inland. Will Jules manage to find a house they can agree on?
Alistair Appleton helps Andrew and Lisa Donley, who want to move to Northamptonshire.
Melissa Porter helps Sixties pop icon Jess Conrad and his wife Renee leave behind the Denham home they have shared for more than 40 years and find the perfect property in the country away from the hustle bustle of London
2007 · 23 episodes · Last episode: 18 years ago
Series 6 is the final series where original 'Escape To The Country' presenter Catherine Gee appeared.
Escape to the Country Series 6 release dates →Alison and David Partidge have decided to swap their town home, located on a very busy road, for a period cottage with similar dimension
Jules Hudson is in Leicestershire helping a couple from Heston house-hunt for the perfect family home. Will their budget find them what they want?
Presenter Jules Hudson is in Northumberland, helping a couple who want to move near Hexham, but still be near enough to Newcastle to commute to work.
A couple want an old and peaceful country home on the Shropshire/Herefordshire border. First broadcast: 20 Dec 2007
Presenter Jules Hudson is in North Lincolnshire helping a couple from South London who are desperate to find a country home with land for their 200 chickens.
Alistair Appleton is in the Vale of Glamorgan with a couple from Yorkshire who are keen to make the move across the border and be nearer their family. Can Alistair find them the right house with a south-facing garden that they want so much?
Jules Hudson goes house-hunting in Gloucestershire with a couple from Camberley who have a healthy budget.
Alistair Appleton is in the New Forest with a couple from the crowded south coast who want to put roots down in Hampshire. Although they have a reasonable budget, they still face a challenge to find a suitable property.
Jules Hudson is in Buckinghamshire, helping a couple find a home closer to their friends.
Jules Hudson is in Yorkshire to help a Cambridgeshire couple find a family home.
Jules Hudson is in north Wales, helping a Sutton couple search for a country retreat.
Alistair Appleton is in Kent helping a couple from London find their perfect home.
Jules Hudson travels to Pembrokeshire to help a family from Bridgend find their dream country home.
Alistair Appleton helps a couple from Camberley find their dream house in the country. First broadcast: 06 Dec 2007
Presenter Jules Hudson visits North Nottinghamshire to help a couple from Rotherham find their dream house in the country.
Jules Hudson is in Somerset to help a couple from Kingston who want to downsize and buy their dream home.
Jules Hudson travels to Cornwall to find a million-pound home and business venture for a family from London.
Alistair Appleton is in Wiltshire to help a couple from London find the perfect home for their growing family.
Alistair Appleton is in North Yorkshire with a couple from Urban South Wales trying to find them their ideal country retreat.
Jules Hudson is in Leicestershire to help a couple from Heston, Middlesex, house-hunt for the perfect family home.
A young couple are keen to move to Monmouthshire to be near their family. Jules Hudson is on hand to try and find them their ideal home, but will he succeed?
Alistair Appleton helps a couple from near Swindon who are hoping to find their dream house in Sussex.
When ex-air hostess Julia Baynes posted a lonely hearts advert for a leather clad rocker she wasn't expecting to fall for Tim Ryan, one of the respondents. Tim's a committed conservationist and was living in a hut in the woods at the time, but he gave it up to move into Julia's Manchester house. They've since decided his home in the rural back-woods wasn't such a bad idea and are looking for a two bed cottage in the Peak District. Catherine Gee has £250,000 to make their dreams come true.
2008 · 20 episodes · Last episode: 18 years ago
Series 7 saw the addition of Denise Nurse to the presenting team.
Escape to the Country Series 7 release dates →Alistair Appleton is on hand to help a couple from Hampshire find their dream rural retreat in Dorset. With a budget of £1.5million, the pair hope to find a property with a water feature. Last in the series
Alistair Appleton helps a couple from Epsom search for a retirement property in Warwickshire. They are planning to downsize, but would still like a big kitchen and garage space for their classic car
Jules Hudson helps a couple from South London who are keen to escape the crowded confines of their current location and move to Kent, on a budget of £1.2million
In Herefordshire, a couple from Leeds dream of finding a country home perfect for their growing family. However, troubles arise when the pair realise they might not agree on what they want, and Alistair Appleton is on hand to help them navigate through the murky waters of the property market
Jules Hudson helps a couple searching for a rural property on the border between Kent and Surrey from where they can commute to work and enjoy their social lives in Croydon
Jules Hudson helps a couple relocating from Kent search for a country home near Bath, complete with period features and a contemporary feel
A couple from Surrey with a 1.2 million pound budget are keen to find an idyllic country property in Devon with holiday lets. Denise Nurse is on hand to show them amazing houses, one with a very unusual business. Will the couple be taken by any of the properties they see?
Jules Hudson visits Cambridgeshire to help a couple from Kent find a rural retreat. First broadcast: 22 Oct 2008
Alistair Appleton heads for Yorkshire to house-hunt with a Hertfordshire couple looking to relocate for work, and hoping to find a property with period features suitable for housing their pedigree dogs
Jules Hudson helps a pair of steam car enthusiast from Surrey. They want to move back to their roots in south Devon - but require a property with outbuildings big enough to hold 12 vehicles
Alistair Appleton helps a couple from Pinner as they search for a dream retirement home, with good views and a small garden, in the East Sussex countryside
Jules Hudson helps a family from Hertfordshire find a country home in East Sussex, and a tough decision needs to be made when they are torn between two of the properties
Denise Nurse helps a Surrey-based couple whose four children have all left home, choosing both contemporary designed houses and period properties in West Sussex for the pair
Alistair Appleton presents from Perthshire.
Jules Hudson helps a couple searching for a family property in Somerset with land for chickens and pigs. Though their budget is healthy, they find compromises may still have to be made
Jules Hudson visits Oxfordshire to help a couple from Berkshire with a budget of £800,000 find a home with an annexe and land for two horses
Alistair Appleton comes to the aid of a Hereford couple looking to downsize from their current seven-bedroom home now their children have moved out. The pair are intent on finding their dream home in the Glastonbury area of Somerset, but may have difficulty finding a property that meets their requirements
Property expert Jules Hudson helps a couple from Hertfordshire hoping to retire in style in Dorset. They have a healthy budget and are shown some stunning properties, including one with regal connections
Alistair Appleton helps a Manchester-based couple find a country pad in Cheshire. First broadcast: 07 Oct 2008
Jules Hudson leads the search for a couple from Leamington Spa who are house-hunting in Northamptonshire. Among the properties of interest are homes with traditional features and contemporary barn conversions
2008 · 20 episodes · Last episode: 17 years ago
Denise Nurse is in North Yorkshire helping a couple who have been searching for their ideal country home for ten years. They want a property with character and a big country kitchen, large rooms and fantastic views. Denise shows them a selection of what is on offer in the Leyburn area including a challenging mystery house. Will they finally find what they are looking for?
Jules Hudson visits Worcestershire to find a family home with space and fresh air in the countryside for a couple looking to break free from their cramped existence in suburbia. They want a big country kitchen and a garden large enough to kick a ball around in, but will their expectations exceed their budget?
Alistair Appleton is in Cornwall helping a couple of teachers find their dream country home. They hanker after having a hobby farm with enough land to rear livestock and grow vegetables within striking distance of the Cornish coast. It also has to be near to Truro. Alistair shows them some beautiful properties and a mystery house with business potential.
Tim Vincent is in Suffolk helping a couple who want to escape town life for a spacious country home with a music room. They want a complete lifestyle change and dream of having a garden big enough to grow their own vegetables. Tim shows them a selection of properties around Stowmarket. Will any of them hit the spot?
Jules Hudson is helping a couple make the move from the West Midlands to Devon. They not only want to cut back on their workload and see more of the countryside, but are also interested in finding a country retreat with enough land to keep a couple of rescued donkeys. Will Jules succeed in showing them what they are looking for?
Alistair Appleton is in the Peak District with a couple wanting to escape to a rural retreat. They have a parent moving with them so need an annex and ideally they would like a project that they can do up themselves. Alistair shows them a selection but how big a project are they prepared for?
Denise Nurse is in Staffordshire with a young couple looking for an escape within striking distance of Burton-on-Trent where they need to be for work. Having only lived in a flat together, they are craving a place with a staircase and a grown-up family home. Denise shows them properties in the £300,000 range. Will they find anything that suits?
Jules Hudson is in Wales, helping a couple to escape to north-east Powys. They want to find an idyllic rural property with enough land to become self-sufficient and grow their own food, and they have a budget of £310,000. Will Jules show them anything they like?
Denise Nurse is in West Sussex helping a couple with a young family to find the perfect country escape. They want to get away from the rat race, live the good life and grow their own vegetables. For that they want an acre of land away from any roads. Will Denise show them anything that suits?
Alistair Appleton is helping a couple from East Grinstead find a quiet country home in the Cotswolds.They already have a home in Florida where they spend half the year so they are looking for the perfect lockup and leave property in the area of Bishop's Cleeve. Will Alistair show them anything suitable?
Denise Nurse is in Dorset, helping a couple who have just moved back to the United Kingdom after four years in France find the perfect rural retreat near Shaftesbury. They have a budget of £350,000 and dream of lots of space and countryside views. Can Denise show them a property that fits their criteria and their pocket?
Jules Hudson heads to West Yorkshire to help a pair of young doctors find their dream rural retreat. They have a budget of £700,000 and want a true country house with some acreage so they can rear some livestock. Jules shows them a selection of what's on offer including an amazing chapel conversion, but will they be tempted?
Alistair Appleton is on the Jurassic Coast in Devon with a couple who have a one million pound budget. They want to be near the coast to go fossil-hunting and chill out. Property-wise, trouble occurs when one wants period features and the other wants contemporary. Can Alistair find them a home that keeps them both happy?
Denise Nurse is helping a couple who dream of escaping to Cornwall. Ideally they'd like a place with a sewing room and a garden which would attract local wildlife. Denise shows them some idyllic properties, some with amazing gardens, plus a very unusual mystery house. They have a budget of £450,000 but will they find what they are hoping for?
Jules Hudson is in Gloucestershire helping a retired couple who want to leave suburbia for the perfect country retreat closer to their grown-up children.
Alistair Appleton is in West Sussex helping a young couple find a gorgeous country home that is not too far from good rail links to London. They have a puppy and are expecting a baby. They love period features and want a house with character. Can Alistair show them the perfect family home within their budget?
Jules Hudson is in South Wales today helping a couple with a £750,000 budget to find the perfect country farmhouse in Powys. They dream of raising livestock and growing their own vegetables. Jules shows them some amazing properties with increasingly larger acreage plus an extremely quirky mystery house. Will the couple be tempted by more than one property they see?
Alistair Appleton is in Bedfordshire helping a couple who dream of a country home in excellent horse-riding territory with outstanding rural views. But will their budget of £350,000 stretch as far as their aspirations? Alistair also shows them a mystery house that causes quite a stir.
Jules Hudson helps a young couple look for the perfect rural retreat in Warwickshire. They have a budget of over half a million pounds and need a property where they can run their own company from home. They love history and character features, but don't want a place that needs a lot of fixing up. Will Jules find them the perfect combination?
Alistair Appleton is in sunny Norfolk helping a couple find an amazing country pad. They have four horses currently in livery and they want to find a place with enough land to accommodate them. Plus they have a teenage daughter who'd like her own annex. Alistair shows them some real treats. Will any of them take the couple's fancy?
2009 · 25 episodes · Last episode: 17 years ago
Denise Nurse is in Suffolk, helping a couple from Essex who are looking to downsize and find an idyllic home in the country. They have a passion for antiques and collectibles, and want a character home with a large kitchen and a garden big enough for their dog to run around in.
Jules Hudson is in south Cumbria, helping a couple from Cheshire look for an idyllic rural home with a country kitchen and a garden big enough for a vegetable plot. He shows them a barn conversion, a village cottage and a 17th-century former mill.
Tim Vincent is in Herefordshire, helping a couple from Peterborough desperate to escape to the country. They want a character property close to an airfield to continue their hobby of flying their two-seater plane.
Jules Hudson is in Norfolk helping a couple in search of the good life in the country. They are looking for a character property with feature fireplaces and a garden suitable for raising chickens and pigs. Jules shows them a 14th-century character cottage, a barn conversion and an old farm cottage.
Tim Vincent is in Lincolnshire helping a couple from Staffordshire find the perfect place in the country to set up home and a camping business. Tim shows them an 18th-century farmhouse and a beautiful barn conversion.
Alistair Appleton visits East Sussex to help a young couple searching for their first home together. They want a period home with great character, a big kitchen, a study and a garden sizeable enough for their dog and a vegetable patch. Alistair shows them a selection of suitable properties including a stunning mystery house.
Denise Nurse visits Worcestershire to help a couple with three children - and a fourth on its way - find a family home. The couple have viewed over 30 properties, none of which have had the right feel, so will it be a tricky search for Denise?
Jules Hudson visits Herefordshire with a couple in search of a character property they can not only live in, but also run as a B&B. They need at least three bedrooms, a separate dining room for their guests, two bathrooms and ideally a garden where they can have their own vegetable plot.
Alistair Appleton visits Suffolk to help a couple who would like to return to the rural life of their childhood. They need a house with an outbuilding they can use for their growing insurance business and a large garden for a vegetable patch.
Jules Hudson visits Dorset to help a homesick couple swap their French chateau for a 1.6 million pound house in the English countryside with five en-suite bedrooms.
Alistair Appleton visits Hampshire to help a couple who spend half the year in America find a country home in the UK that they can lock up and leave. On the wish list is a contemporary three-bedroom home with kitchen diner and a study.
Denise Nurse explores the area of the Kent Downs in pursuit of an ideal country home for a couple who want to get away from suburbia. They need three bedrooms, a music room and space for their beloved parrots. Tears flow as Denise shows them some dream properties, but will any tempt the couple to buy?
Jules Hudson visits Cornwall to find a dream country home for a couple with 700,000 pounds to spend. On the checklist is a two-bed property with sea views, a TV room, large kitchen and a garden in a tranquil setting. For the mystery house, Jules has not one but two surprises.
Alistair Appleton explores the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire with a couple and their five children who are searching for their dream rural home. They want somewhere off the beaten track with a minimum of four bedrooms. Will Alistair show them anything that ticks the box?
Jules Hudson visits Leicestershire to help a couple who are looking for a house for three generations of their family. They need ground floor living space for their parents, a big kitchen, and a garden for their three daughters to play in. Will Jules succeed in showing them their perfect home?
Jules Hudson visits Monmouthshire to help a couple who are searching for their dream rural home. Having rejected twenty modern houses, they are now open to something older, with character. Will any of the properties Jules shows them hit the mark?
Alistair Appleton is in south Bedfordshire helping a couple moving in together for the first time. They hanker after a home in a rural location with enough space for their antique collection, and a private garden to potter around in.
Denise Nurse is in West Somerset helping a couple find a property with a business. With a big budget of 1.25 million pounds, will they find what they are looking for?
Jules Hudson is in Ceridigion, West Wales, helping a pair of singers find their perfect rural idyll. They want a home with room for a music studio and a couple of holiday lets to rent out. Will Jules show them anything suitable or will their expectations exceed their budget?
Alistair Appleton is in Oxfordshire with a couple from Germany who dream of finding their own slice of British country life and a house to match. They want a fantastic kitchen with a range cooker, bathrooms with mixer taps and to find out what a butler sink is. Will Alistair show them something that suits?
Jules Hudson is in North Cornwall to help four generations of the same family find their dream home in the country. They need five bedrooms, two reception rooms, an annexe for the great-grandparents, and outside space big enough for chickens, animals and playing football - all for a budget of 500,000 pounds.
Alistair Appleton is in the Cotswolds with a couple searching for a dream house with a garden large enough to keep a goat. They view some stunning properties but in such a popular and expensive part of the country, outside space comes at a premium. Will they find anything that suits or will compromises have to be made?
Denise Nurse is helping a mother and son find a home that will give them a fresh start. They are moving from a big house in Norfolk closer to friends and family in Worcestershire. They want to downsize but need lots of space for their animals and an outbuilding to turn into a craft centre. Will Denise show them any suitable properties?
Jules Hudson is in South Devon helping a couple search for their dream home. They want a cottage-style property with a country kitchen and easy access to the coast. Will they find what they are looking for?
Alistair Appleton is in Shropshire helping a couple looking for a dream home and a new pace of life. But the couple are divided over what they want - one likes period properties, whereas the other likes clean and contemporary features. Will Alistair help them find something they agree on?
2009 · 50 episodes · Last episode: 15 years ago
The 10th series saw Welsh singer and radio presenter Aled Jones join the show, as well as the first appearances of longstanding 'Escape To The Country' presenters Nicki Chapman and Jonnie Irwin.
Escape to the Country Series 10 release dates →Nicki Chapman is in Norfolk helping an animal-loving couple to find their perfect pad in the country. They have a budget of £350,000.
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Jonnie Irwin helps a couple leave one of Europe's largest housing estates behind and start afresh in Perthshire, with a budget of £375,000.
Jules Hudson helps a couple of self-confessed urbanites swap the big smoke for a country pile in Somerset with somewhere to put a swimming pool.
Alistair Appleton helps a couple of air stewards find the perfect landing place in Suffolk with a budget of £500,000.
Denise Nurse helps two escapees who want to leave London behind and start a new life in rural Somerset, with a budget of £1.2 million.
Denise Nurse joins a couple ready to leave their 1930s semi in Surrey and relocate to East Devon. With a budget of £700,000 they are dreaming of a large rural retreat.
Nicki Chapman is in Hampshire with a London couple looking for their first family home in the country with a budget of £465,000.
Jules Hudson is house-hunting in Norfolk with a couple keen to find a detached home. Armed with a budget of £400,000, they are after three bedrooms, a big kitchen diner, at least one reception room and plenty of storage. A good-sized garden and a double garage are also on their list.
Alistair Appleton helps a couple who plan to move to Cornwall to start a B&B business with a budget of £650,000.
Jules Hudson helps a couple of newlyweds find their dream home in Cumbria. With a budget of up to £700,000, they seek a period property with four to five bedrooms, a large country kitchen and an annexe or outbuilding.
Jules Hudson attempts to help a couple find a detached house with four bedrooms for a budget of £550,000 in hilly north Devon.
Jules Hudson is house hunting in Herefordshire with a couple ready to leave London and create the good life in the country.
Aled Jones is in Wiltshire with a couple on a house hunt. With £500,000 to spend, they are seeking a detached house with a large kitchen, an equally spacious garden and stunning views.
Nicki Chapman helps a couple who are seeking an impressive house to retire to in South Wales. They have a healthy budget of £650,000.
Denise Nurse helps a couple, keen on long walks in Constable county, find their ideal home in Suffolk. With a budget of £450,000, they are looking for a large kitchen diner, a studio, a study and a south west facing garden.
Denise Nurse is helping a couple to cast off from urban life by the River Thames and seek out peace and relaxation in the country.
Alistair Appleton is in Shropshire as a couple with a budget of £400,000 hope to ditch their urban apartment in favour of village life.
Nicki Chapman is with a couple buying a house together for the first time in North Yorkshire. They have already dismissed over 1,000 properties.
Alistair Appleton helps a couple find a character home in Buckinghamshire with at least half an acre of land to keep some goats.
Nicki Chapman helps a couple who would like to fulfil their dream of moving to Herefordshire and starting a new business.
Alistair Appleton is in Devon with a couple who are looking for a light and airy three-bedroom house with a large kitchen/diner, an annexe, a garage and a low-maintenance garden. They want to be close to the sea too - but can all this be achieved on their £500,000 budget in pricey Devon?
Nicki Chapman helps a retired couple flee Nottingham for the Dorset countryside. Their wish list includes two living rooms and an artist's studio.
Nicki Chapman helps a couple from Manchester find their very first home together in the Peak District, with a budget of £700,000.
Aled Jones helps a couple with their family of 14 dogs and cats go in search of rural isolation in Cornwall with a budget of £500,000.
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Jules Hudson guides a retired couple in their quest to find the good life in north west Wales. With their children grown up, they have decided to sell their home of 28 years and fulfil their dream of finding a perfect country house. They have a budget of £450,000 and want enough land to grow vegetables and keep a few chickens, and a house big enough to accommodate the family when they come to visit.
Alistair Appleton is house hunting in Shropshire with a family looking for an equestrian property with that elusive 'wow factor'. The search is helped by a healthy budget of £750,000.
Denise Nurse helps a couple relocate from Kuwait to Staffordshire. They will be leaving a palatial house behind so will she succeed in finding them their rural idyll? With a top budget of £400,000, they are after a large kitchen-diner and a small, low-maintenance garden.
Alistair Appleton is house-hunting in Dorset with a couple who are ready to leave the island of Jersey for good. With a budget of £550,000, they are looking for a modern house in a county famous for its old, typically English cottages.
With £650,000, Nicki Chapman tries to help a couple find a house big enough to accommodate three teenage boys and three Rottweilers in rural Dorset.
Alistair Appleton is in the Lake District with a couple looking for a B&B to buy for £650,000.
Denise Nurse helps a couple find a home with plenty of character in Suffolk. With a budget of £450,000, the buyers are seeking three bedrooms.
Alistair Appleton helps a couple on their house-hunt in North Yorkshire. There's a budget of £650,000 to find them a house with enough land for a vegetable plot.
Jules Hudson helps a couple hoping to retire to South Shropshire find their rural idyll. After 30 years in suburbia they've decided it's time to seek a more rustic life.
Aled Jones helps a couple who have hardly lived together during 34 years of marriage to find a home in West Sussex, with an area for dog grooming.
Alistair Appleton helps a couple fulfil a childhood dream, swapping the fast lane of London for an artistic life in the Suffolk countryside.
Jules Hudson is in Hampshire to help a young family search for the perfect home. With a budget of £600,000, a large and safe garden is key.
Denise Nurse helps a retired couple find the slice of rural Hampshire they have always craved. They want a character property with a garage and a library.
Jules Hudson is in Worcestershire looking for a rural character property for a couple in search of the good life. With a budget of £650,000, a country kitchen and vegetable plot are a must.
Denise Nurse is on the Suffolk/Essex border seeking the perfect family home for a couple with £500,000 to spend who are keen to bring up their children away from busy city life.
Nicki Chapman is in Pembrokeshire and has a maximum budget of £700,000 to help a couple who want to run holiday lets.
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Jules Hudson helps a couple say adios to Spain and hello to a creative life in the Shropshire countryside. With a whopping million-pound budget, they want a magical property that will inspire their creativity. On a more practical level, the house must have five bedrooms, a large kitchen-diner where the family can congregate, and a library, or space to create one. As they want an organic smallholding, the property must also come with up to 30 acres of land. Finding a house that fits the bill won't be difficult - finding a house that feels right may be trickier.
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Nicki Chapman helps a couple relocate from south Wales to north Wales, with a job promotion the driving factor. On a budget of £300,000 they need a three-bedroom detached house with a large kitchen and separate dining room. A garden big enough for a vegetable patch and a conservatory are also high on their wish list.
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Denise Nurse is in Somerset, where she helps a couple with a budget of £650,000 find the perfect house to fulfil their dreams of a rural lifestyle.
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Aled Jones is horsing around South Yorkshire in search of the ultimate equestrian pad for a feisty couple from Sheffield. With a fantastic budget of up to one million pounds, they are looking for a house with that elusive wow factor. The perfect property should deliver a large family kitchen, four bedrooms, stables and at least five acres of land. But with one wanting contemporary and the other chasing character, it's going to be an interesting ride.
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Armed with a budget of £500,000, Jules Hudson is in East Devon helping a couple who are moving back to the UK from Spain.
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Nicki Chapman helps a couple swap the suburbs for a slice of west Wales. With retirement on the horizon, the time has come to say goodbye to their large five-bedroom house in Kent and hello to the Welsh property of their dreams. The house they have in mind needs to have four bedrooms, a big kitchen and at least one acre of land. As mum is moving with them, a separate two-bedroom annexe is a must. So for a top budget of £500,000 they are looking for a lot of property. Finding two homes for the price of one is going to be a real challenge. Will they consider taking on a project to create their ideal home?
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Denise Nurse is with a couple of ex-property developers who want to leave Hazlemere, Surrey and head for the hills of Herefordshire with their two dogs and ten-month-old twins. They have already moved seven times while developing properties, but now it's different. The dynamic duo also run a business training company, and this move takes the business one step further. With a budget of £800,000, they want a family home that gives them a large kitchen with a 'heart of the home' feel, three bedrooms, country character features and at least four acres of land to house a smallholding, their business centre and the horses they plan to keep.
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Jules Hudson helps a couple with a budget of £650,000 in the New Forest.
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Jules Hudson is house-hunting in east Devon with a young couple keen to offer their baby son a better quality of life. They want to swap the modern estate they live on with a character cottage in a central village location. They want three bedrooms, office space, a big kitchen diner and an equally big garden with countryside views. Can this be achieved for £370,000 in such a popular location?
Denise Nurse is in Yorkshire with a couple keen to retire to the country. They want to spend £500,000 on a property large enough to accommodate all their hobbies.
2010 · 50 episodes · Last episode: 15 years ago
Nicki Chapman goes house-hunting with a couple who are ditching east London life to move to Cambridgeshire with their two children. With a budget of 450,000 pounds, good schools and a large garden are a must. They are after contemporary country living, so will a medieval 15th-century coach house be too daunting a proposition?
Denise Nurse helps a retired couple find peace and quiet in Oxfordshire, but will the hills be alive with the sound of silence? With a budget of 800,000 pounds, period features on a grand scale are not in short supply, so will the drama of the 15th-century abbey house seal the deal?
Alistair Appleton goes property shopping with a young family who have sold their home in Essex and are looking to move to rural Wiltshire. But in the fashionable northern eastern corner of the county, their 465,000 pound budget doesn't go as far as they had hoped.
Jonnie Irwin is in Cornwall, helping a couple leave behind their urban coop in search of some free-range living. With a budget of £350,000, this move is all about their menagerie; with two horses, two dogs and with an eye on buying some llamas, land is a must.
Nicki Chapman is in Dorset, helping a couple swap city skylines for open countryside. With a budget of up to £800,000, these buyers are tempted by a fabulous slice of a country estate with 350 acres of communal land.
Jules Hudson is in the West Country helping a couple leave suburbia behind and earn a crust in the countryside. With a healthy budget of £1.25 million they are looking for a period character home with an annexe for dad and a high-end holiday let business.
Jonnie Irwin is in Kent with today's buyers who have very exacting tastes. With their budget of 630,000 pounds, they are focused on finding a medieval oak beamed barn with expansive living spaces.
Alistair Appleton helps a young North Yorkshire couple whose budget extends to £450,000 seek a home. The task proves hard work, with the couple having very different tastes, but will they agree on a Georgian former flax mill with a medieval chapel?
Jules Hudson is in Carmarthenshire, South Wales, with a mother and daughter looking for a family home together on a budget of £250,000. But quite how they will divide the living space is a hotly debated topic. And Jules horses around with the county's Welsh Cobs.
Nicki Chapman is in Suffolk helping a couple of newlyweds swap their current crowded house in the suburbs for a spacious country home. With a budget of £650,000, there's plenty to choose from including a 17th-century farmhouse, a classic Georgian home and a brand new thatched property. Nicki also gets a masterclass in ornamental plaster work.
Alistair Appleton is in Somerset, property hunting with a couple of retirees wanting to downsize. And with a budget of £350,000 a stone built cottage in Cheddar seems to hit the spot.
Nicki Chapman goes property hunting in Shropshire with a couple who need an outbuilding to house a private museum for their 700 pieces of World War II memorabilia. And with a budget of 400,000 pounds, they are spoilt for choice when it comes to properties with country character.
Jules Hudson is in Powys helping a family of four, with a budget of £700,000, find a complete lifestyle change. They are after a new country home with a potential business income, allowing mum Rachel to work from home.
Alistair Appleton is visiting Appleby Horse Fair in Cumbria. The house hunters he meets are after a period home with a budget of 400,000 pounds, but surprisingly the ultra-modern eco-friendly mystery house gets a very warm reception.
Nicki Chapman is in Devon showcasing an immaculate barn conversion and a 15th century Devon longhouse for a couple with a budget of £650,000. On the wish list are great views and space for some rescue animals. Plus a visit to Widecombe Fair.
Aled Jones is in the pricey Chilterns looking for a country pad for a young professional couple. But the cost of property proves to be a quite a shock when they find out how far their 750,000 pounds goes.
Nicki Chapman is helping a couple saddle up and move to Wiltshire. For a budget of 500,000 pounds, the house must come with first-class accommodation for their beloved Exmoor ponies. And Nicky rustles up a Wiltshire delicacy - lardy cake.
Denise Nurse is on the trail of stunning rural property in Cumbria, a county renowned for its incredible scenery. The buyers have a budget of £900,000 and are looking for a super-sized substantial family home with three reception spaces, five bedrooms and plenty of land. Denise also checks out one of Cumbria's oldest sporting traditions, hound trailing.
Alistair Appleton is helping some house buyers find a rural house with a budget of £325,000. After 28 years in London, they are after a slice of rural Suffolk - but rustic charm is definitely not on the agenda. So will the country character of a 15th century medieval timber-built Hall House push them over the edge?
Jules Hudson is in Devon helping a couple leave the Surrey suburbs for pastures new after 20 years. With a budget of £700,000, they are spoilt for choice, with both an 18th-century farmhouse and a former coaching house on offer. And Jules discovers the meaning behind the expression 'keeping your nose to the grindstone'.
Jules Hudson is in Essex, helping a couple of sisters find a quirky home with a big character to match their own. With a budget of £400,000 they fall head over heels with both the property and Jules.
Alistair Appleton is in Warwickshire helping a young family relocate from Australia to settle in the heart of England. But will their budget of £700,000 stretch to a Georgian manor with large, impressive reception rooms and up to five acres of land? Alistair visits Warwick Castle and tries his hand at one of the most popular sports of the Middle Ages.
Jonnie Irwin is in Argyll and Bute, helping a couple with a budget of £500,000 find a rural home after 25 years on the move. There are some stunning period properties on offer and Jonnie braves the chilly waters of Loch Lethin to go wild swimming.
Nicki Chapman is in Cumbria with a couple looking for some rural respite and privacy after 18 years of living alongside their business. With £800,000 to spend, they are after a 17th-century farmhouse but having sufficient land is essential as four horses, 20 llamas, an emu and a peacock will be moving too.
Alistair Appleton is in North Wales with a couple searching for a rustic family life with ponies, chickens and goats all on the wish list. They are hoping that a budget of £450,000 will buy their children a dream country lifestyle.
Jules Hudson is in the West Country helping a couple making a rural relocation with a budget of £450,000. Seeking period charm, a 19th-century farm workers' cottage gets the thumbs up, but how will an impeccable new build, thatched and built from Purbeck stone, fare?
Denise Nurse is in Norfolk with a husband and wife team who are about to start family life all over again, having taken over care of their grandchildren. With a budget of £500,000, they are they after some rural 'Enid Blyton' living. Denise also visits Blickling Hall, the first stately home bequeathed to the National Trust.
Alistair Appleton helps a couple with a budget of £700,000 swap city life for some Cotswolds charm. But our buyers have very different tastes in property so one of them will have to compromise.
Nicki Chapman is in Nottinghamshire, house hunting with a couple who are seeking their 14th and final home! With a £350,000 budget, our house buyers find it hard to agree on the style of rural property they want. And Nicki takes lessons from a master bowyer in Sherwood Forest.
Aled Jones is helping a newly-married couple with a budget of one million pounds find a substantial property with acreage in the ever-popular rural commutable belt of Sussex. But will they go for a typical Sussex tile-hung period house or for a sprawling thatched party pad complete with sunken jacuzzi room and swimming pool?
Jonnie Irwin is in Essex helping a young couple find an equestrian property with a budget of £575,000. But as the Home Counties are notoriously pricey, they may have to do some lateral thinking to get the house and acreage they are after.
Alistair Appleton is property hunting in Warwickshire with a couple who want to leave the stresses of London life behind and seek out a spiritual retreat in the country. They have a healthy budget of 750,000 pounds, but will a charming 17th-century mill house have the right energy?
Jules Hudson takes a couple period property-hunting in Norfolk for the very first time. With a budget of £350,000 he tempts them with a former stable block with an impressive country-chic interior.
Aled Jones is in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, helping a young family make the move from north London. With a budget of £600,000 they have their hearts set on a period property, but can an immaculate architect-designed new build change their minds?
Nicki Chapman is in Cornwall with a couple looking for a home with room to house their internet business. With a budget of £450,000, the property has to have a rural setting with a real 'chill factor'.
Jules Hudson is in the Lake District with a couple looking for a rural retreat to create a classy bed and breakfast, so a period property with character is on the menu. With a healthy budget of 1.15 million pounds, could a three bed private house and an impressive ten bed high end guest annexe be just the job?
Denise Nurse is in Lincolnshire, showcasing some fabulous converted windmills for this episode's house buyers. With a budget of £500,000, it's not just our house hunters we have to please - their 13 horses will be making the move too, so at least ten acres of land plus stables are required.
Alistair Appleton is in Shropshire, helping a couple make the move from waterside apartment living in Portsmouth to the pastoral perfection of rural Shropshire. With a budget of £600,000, this move is about getting back to basics. Beekeeping, growing fruit, rearing chickens and village life are all on the agenda.
Jules Hudson is in Devon, helping a couple with a budget of 450,000 pounds find a home with bags of West Country character. We step back in time as Jules is given a private tour of Castle Drogo, the last castle to be built in England.
Jonnie Irwin helps a young family with ambitions of grand country living in Essex. They have a budget of £750,000 to spend and, presented with a couple of barn conversions and a Georgian manor house, are spoilt for choice. Jonnie also goes dredging for oysters in the creeks of the Blackwater River.
Jules Hudson is in Carmarthenshire with an ex-fireman and his wife, who are looking for a country estate with potential to set up a holiday let business for people with disabilities, all for a budget of £800,000. And Jules finds out about the Welsh Rare Plant Project at the National Botanical Garden of Wales.
Nicki Chapman is in Hampshire with a couple of retired ex-pat house hunters who have a budget of £650,000 for their new rural home. Emotions run high for the big homecoming when they set eyes on a pretty brick-and-timber property dating back to 1630. Nicki also finds out what it takes to be a commoner in the New Forest National Park.
Aled Jones is in rural North Yorkshire helping a family relocate from Essex. With a budget of £500,000, they have already ruled out 30 properties, so Aled has his work cut out trying to find something which is close to perfection. A Victorian house-keeper's cottage comes fairly close, but can it beat the mystery house, a barn conversion?
Jonnie Irwin is in Cornwall helping two retirees find a seaside retreat. Armed with a budget of £400,000, they are after a traditional Cornish stone-built house.
Alistair Appleton dons a kilt as he goes property-hunting in the Scottish Borders for a couple of lottery winners who are seeking a family home with a budget of 550,000 pounds. But will the regal splendour of an 18th-century vicarage prove too much?
Aled Jones is in North Yorkshire helping a young couple on a rural property hunt with a budget of 850,000 pounds. The buyers are looking to apply their culinary skills to forming a business and need a large detached home with a fabulous kitchen.
Alistair Appleton is in Warwickshire, helping a couple of newly-weds find a country home with a budget of £550,000. But with a Cotswold stone cottage being found to be too petite and a 19th-century farmhouse too big a project, it proves hard to find the right combination.
Denise Nurse is in Scotland helping a writer find the perfect Perthshire home in which to write her next novel. With a budget of 400,000 pounds, we find inspiration in a 19th Century stone built cottage and a former school house, set at the foot of the Glenshee Mountains.
Nicki Chapman is in Herefordshire, shopping with a couple who dream of owning a period black and white cottage with bags of curb appeal and a decent-sized garden.
Jules Hudson is helping a couple with a budget of 500,000 pounds retire to the West Country. Their dream is to find a thatched Devonshire cottage.
2011 · 50 episodes · Last episode: 14 years ago
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Jonnie Irwin helps a retired Cornwall couple who are ready to tackle a renovation project.
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Jonnie Irwin helps a couple relocate from Bishops Stortford to the Yorkshire Dales.
Alistair Appleton helps a couple look for a country residence in north east Wales.
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Nicki Chapman helps a buyer who has been dreaming of moving to Cornwall for over 30 years.
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Denise Nurse helps a family find a country home in the expensive county of Surrey.
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Jules Hudson travels to North Devon to help a military couple who are looking to put down roots in the countryside for a budget of £500,000. Plus, Jules catches up with a pair of escapees who found their dream home in a previous series.
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Jonnie slips on his dancing shoes for a routine showcasing Suffolk's musical heritage.
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Alistair Appleton helps a couple who want to escape to the Nottinghamshire countryside for a budget of 450,000 pounds. During his journey, Alistair heads to Southwell to uncover the story behind one of Britain's most famous apples, the Bramley.
Denise Nurse helps a couple with a budget of £500,000 find a country home in Devon with a holiday let and enough land for goats. Away from the house hunt, Denise joins in the final harvest of the season at Devon's oldest vineyard.
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Jules discovers the hidden secrets of watercress at one of Hampshire's farms.
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Alistair Appleton joins the hunt for an artistic couple buying their first home together.
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Nicki Chapman travels to the Suffolk countryside to help a couple find a new home for 500,000 pounds. While in Suffolk, Nicki gets a glimpse of some of the region's newly-born barn owls, part of a successful project to protect their declining numbers.
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Jules Hudson helps a couple search for a country home on the Pembrokeshire coast.
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Alistair Appleton goes house hunting with a couple in East Sussex.
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Aled Jones helps a couple with a 600,000 pound budget search for a country home in Dorset. Plus, Aled tries his hand at the traditional craft of blacksmithing.
Following a battle with breast cancer, these buyers have refocused their priorities and decided to move to rural Kent. With a budget of 700,000 pounds Nicki Chapman shows them three superb properties before heading off to the annual Whitstable Oyster Festival.
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Alistair Appleton is helping a couple buy their first home together in Worcestershire.
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Jules Hudson seeks out a rural retreat in Wiltshire for a couple with a £500,000 budget.
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Alistair Appleton joins a couple of globetrotters who are now ready to put down roots.
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Aled Jones joins the search in Northern Ireland to help a couple of newlyweds find a home.
Jules Hudson helps a newly-married couple find a new home in the Shropshire countryside.
Jules Hudson helps a first-time buyer who has spent more than 40 years in the same home.
Nicki Chapman helps a couple with a budget of 425,000 pounds who want to move to the north Norfolk coast. Nicki also heads to Blakeney Point to spot grey seals in their natural habitat.
Denise Nurse helps a GP and his wife relocate to Stirling in Scotland.
Jonnie Irwin helps a couple who have lived in London nearly all their lives.
Alistair Appleton seeks a country residence in the Cotswolds for a couple of teachers.
Alistair Appleton goes house hunting in Cornwall with a couple with a budget of £875,000.
Denise Nurse helps a couple to find a home in rural Gloucestershire.
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Jules Hudson joins the house search in the Peak District to help a military family.
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Alistair Appleton helps a couple to find a home in the Monmouthshire countryside.
Jonnie Irwin attempts to find a country home for a family of returning ex-pats.
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Jonnie Irwin helps a couple with a large budget of 1.2 million pounds.
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Aled Jones helps a couple with 500,000 pounds escape to the Chilterns.
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Jules Hudson helps a couple with 600,000 pounds find their dream home in North Yorkshire.
Alistair Appleton helps a pair of car enthusiasts who want to move closer to Silverstone.
Nicki Chapman helps two naval officers find a home in Herefordshire.
Jonnie Irwin helps a couple find a new home in West Sussex for a budget of 700,000 pounds.
Jules Hudson helps two retired police officers swap their caravan for a rural residence.
Alistair Appleton is in Somerset helping a couple find a home for a budget of £400,000.
Jonnie Irwin house hunts with a pair of avid walkers for a £600,000 house in Cumbria.
Nicki Chapman goes on tour with the Alcester Court Leet and becomes a guest ale taster.
Jules Hudson helps a couple and their three-year-old daughter find a home for £450,000.
Nicki Chapman helps a retired couple escape to Somerset, with a budget of £350,000.
Alistair Appleton is in Shropshire, helping a couple buy a home for a budget of £550,000.
Jules Hudson helps a couple with £1.2M to spend, find their dream home in Berkshire.
Jonnie Irwin travels to Norfolk to help a business woman find a home closer to her
Denise Nurse helps find a family home for a couple and their two children in Norfolk.
Nicki Chapman is in Devon, helping a couple of retired teachers find a rural retreat.
Alistair Appleton helps a couple find a country home along the Essex/Suffolk border.
Jules Hudson helps a couple return to their roots in rural South Wales.
2012 · 50 episodes · Last episode: 13 years ago
Series 13 saw Aled Jones leave the show.
Escape to the Country Series 13 release dates →Jonnie Irwin's house hunt gathers pace as he helps a novelist mother and her horse-loving daughter find a charming equestrian home for £620,000 in the Devon countryside. Plus, Jonnie learns why cob forms the building blocks of Devon's architecture, and how the use of this natural material is far from mud in the 21st century.
Alistair Appleton goes on a charm offensive as he helps a house buyer with £300,000 find her perfect character cottage in rural Warwickshire. Alistair also visits Ryton Gardens and finds out how its heritage seed library is collecting and preserving hundreds of rare vegetable varieties for generations of future gardeners.
Nicki Chapman heads for the Cumbrian hills in a bid to find a country home for a creative couple with a budget of £400,000. Away from the search, Nicki visits the home of Victorian writer and social reformer John Ruskin, and discovers more about his link to the Lakeland landscape, and how his ideas are still relevant in the modern era.
Jules Hudson goes house hunting with an ambitious professional couple who have a substantial budget of £800,000 to invest in their country home. While in the county, Jules visits the Didcot Railway Centre and gets the inside track on how volunteers have spent over 40 years preserving the heritage of the Great Western Railway engines.
Alistair Appleton travels to Cornwall to help a couple with regal duties find a country home for their budget of £350,000. Alistair also heads to the Cornish coast and finds out how a pioneering young designer is making waves with his environmentally friendly surfboards.
Jonnie Irwin is in Somerset with a couple who have £550,000 to find a country home with scope for a bed and breakfast aimed at long-term carers. While in the county, Jonnie visits the original home of cheddar cheese and has a taste of how it is traditionally made, and then matured, in the Cheddar Gorge caves.
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Denise Nurse tries to bring harmony to a house search in Suffolk, where a couple with £350,000 have different views on their perfect country home. During her journey, Denise visits the RNLI lifeboat station in Lowestoft and takes the helm in a training rescue exercise at sea.
Nicki Chapman goes house searching with a young professional couple who are keen to escape London and upsize to a country home in Hampshire. While there, Nicki visits the Hawk Conservancy Trust and helps release a rehabilitated bird of prey back into the wild.
Jules Hudson heads to north Wales in a bid to help a recently retired couple with £400,000 find a rural retreat. While in the region, Jules revisits a couple who found their perfect property three years ago, which has enabled them to lead the self-sufficient lifestyle they dreamt of.
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Alistair Appleton goes property hunting in the Peak District, as he tries to find a character country home for a couple who have a budget of £475,000. Away from the search, Alistair gets a bird's-eye view of the conservation efforts to maintain the Peak District landscape.
Jonnie Irwin comes to the aid of two retired healthcare professionals who have £475,000 to find a country home with their field of dreams in Cumbria. While in the county, Jonnie heads to the Lyth Valley and learns about the area's damson-growing heritage.
Nicki Chapman joins a recently reunited couple on their property search in West Sussex. Although the budget is £600,000, finding additional space for their six award-winning dogs could be a challenge. Away from the house hunt, Nicki visits the Goodwood estate, and learns how its organic ancestral farm is championing the preservation of livestock breeds that are native to the county.
Jules Hudson takes on a property-hunting mission in Devon with a couple who are looking for a country home that can also house one of their parents and B&B guests. While in the county, Jules indulges his love of local ale and enjoys a taste of the home-grown malting process at a traditional malt house in Newton Abbot.
Denise Nurse helps a pair of retired teachers find a country retreat, with a budget of £475,000, in Warwickshire. Denise also visits Baddesley Clinton, a magnificent manor house within the county, and home to a fascinating history.
Alistair Appleton helps a keen baker and his business-focused wife find a rural home in Yorkshire, with a budget of £350,000. While in the county, Alistair scales the heights of York Minster and gets a preview of the remarkable restoration work under way on its famous stained-glass windows.
Denise Nurse goes property hunting in Buckinghamshire with a couple who, along with a sizeable £725,000 budget, have high expectations for their new country home. Denise also visits Bletchley Park and unlocks how the Enigma machine played a key role in British military intelligence during the Second World War.
Jules Hudson helps a dynamic couple with an eye for renovating move out of their holiday home on the Isle of Wight and find a country retreat on the Hampshire mainland on a budget of £550,000. Jules also visits the world's largest collection of hovercraft and learns how this great British invention breathed new life into seafaring technology.
There is an extraordinary proposal in this episode as Jonnie Irwin helps a country-loving couple find their dream property in Devon for £500,000. Whilst there, Jonnie meets a local farmer who has pioneered using his south Devon cattle for their original purpose of producing milk rather than beef.
Nicki Chapman is in north Wiltshire helping a couple with a substantial budget of £900,000 swap the busy city of London for the calm of the countryside. Away from the property hunt, Nicki goes in search of one the region's most highly sought-after food secrets, the truffle.
Alistair Appleton travels to Lancashire to help a buyer in search of a classic country cottage for her budget of £250,000. While in the county, Alistair takes a tour of the world's only fully operational 19th-century steam-powered weaving mill.
Nicki Chapman heads to Rutland to help a young couple with a £380,000 budget look for a spacious family home in which to bring up their two young boys. Nicki also meets a local miller who has brought one of the region's windmills back to life, and who produces flour using traditional methods.
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Alistair Appleton is in Essex with a couple of restoration professionals seeking out a splendid country residence for £700,000. Away from the house hunt, Alistair visits Tiptree, home to a historic fruit farm, where he lifts the lid on why heritage fruit jams are once again in favour.
Jonnie Irwin heads to south Lincolnshire, finding a peaceful retreat for a Reiki therapist and a carpenter with a £270,000 budget. While in the county, Jonnie meets the owner of Doddington Hall, an Elizabethan stately home, where a number of rare tapestries are currently being restored.
Nicki Chapman is in Shropshire with a recently retired couple whose working lives had meant living continents apart. They have £370,000 to plough into a rural property with land. While in the county, Nicki revisits some previous housebuyers from the show who have achieved the country lifestyle they dreamed of.
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Jules Hudson helps an expat couple with a £400,000 budget make a return trip from Australia and put down roots in rural Worcestershire. Time is of the essence to find them their country home, as their belongings arrive back in the UK in just a few weeks. Jules gets the inside track on Shelsley Walsh race course, the world's oldest motorsport venue.
Jonnie Irwin meets a couple, with a £400,000 budget, who are buzzing with ideas for their new country home in Suffolk. While in the county, Jonnie visits a local trust that is helping to ensure the survival of the endangered Suffolk Punch horse.
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Alistair Appleton is in east Sussex to help an artistic buyer with a handsome budget of £800,000 find an inspirational country home. Alistair also takes a ride across the glorious Camber Sands as he tries his hand at kite buggying.
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Denise Nurse is property-shopping in rural Devon with one born-and-bred Londoner and her dog on a budget of £425,000. While in the county, Denise heads to the south Devon coast to get a taste of a unique crab variety for whom these shores are home.
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Alistair Appleton is in North Yorkshire helping a couple with a £550,000 budget find the perfect rural home, ideally offering an income from holiday lets. Away from the house search, Alistair drops in on the annual Whitby Folk Festival, which celebrates the traditional music, dance and song of Yorkshire and the rest of the British Isles.
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Jules Hudson goes property hunting in Somerset to help a couple who are planning to take early retirement with a substantial budget of £750,000 to fund their new rural home. Whilst there, Jules meets a willow farmer and learns how the crop is interwoven into the county's landscape and handicraft heritage.
Aled Jones heads to Gloucestershire with a couple aspiring to find a country home with a £750,000 budget. During his journey, Aled visits Chedworth Roman Villa, and unearths what the excavations reveal about British domestic and social life back in the 4th century.
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Nicki Chapman travels through the west of Scotland, helping an animal-loving couple with £350,000 find their perfect country home. While in the region, Nicki tries her hand at the traditional Scottish sport of curling and visits an Ayrshire factory where the unique local granite is cut into Olympic-standard curling stones.
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Denise Nurse tackles a house-hunt in the Cotswolds on a budget of £1.5million. Away from the search she meets a local alpaca farmer to find out about the area s wool heritage and learns how to weave their exotic fibre by hand.
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Jules Hudson heads to Kent to help a Canadian couple cut their ties to London and find a family home in the country for £650,000. Plus Jules is given a personal tour of the historic Sissinghurst gardens, created by Vita Sackville-West.
Alistair Appleton is in Lincolnshire helping a couple of retired expats, with a budget of £300,000, return from France and find a rural retreat on home soil. While in the county, Alistair meets a local conservationist with an entrepreneurial approach to safeguarding the area's ancient woodland.
Nicki Chapman charts her way around Dorset with a boat-loving couple keen to find a landmark country home for £600,000. Along the way, Nicki visits the UK's largest organic dairy sheep farm to find out how its sheep's milk yoghurt has caused quite a business stir.
Jules Hudson meets a property-hunter with a budget of £400 000 hoping to find the perfect rural retreat in Gloucestershire. While there he also discovers how local efforts are helping to improve the Severn s endangered eel population.
Alistair Appleton goes property shopping in Devon with a couple who have £500,000 to find a country home with business potential. Away from the house search, Alistair encounters Dartmoor ponies and learns how a charity is ensuring their survival within the Dartmoor National Park.
Jonnie Irwin goes property hunting with an urban couple who have £750,000 to spend on a family home in the Essex countryside. Whilst there, Jonnie heads to the coast and learns more about the history and enduring popularity of its seaside beach huts.
Denise Nurse helps a British couple with a budget of £300,000 to repatriate to rural Somerset after living and working abroad for 30 years. During her journey, Denise meets up with a local water buffalo breeder, and learns why these non-native cattle can thrive in the Somerset countryside.
Jonnie Irwin heads to Norfolk to help a house-buying couple find their ideal rural home. While there, he teams up with a local master thatcher on the job and discovers how Norfolk reed is woven into the county's building heritage.
Alistair Appleton takes on a very unusual property search in Gloucestershire, helping three buyers who have £800,000 find two separate country homes on the same plot. While in the county, Alistair visits Gloucester Cathedral and discovers more about the ongoing restoration of its stone gargoyles.
Nicki Chapman travels to Monmouthshire to help a couple with a budget of £500,000 to return to their Welsh roots. During her journey, Nicki knocks on the historic doors of Chepstow Castle and meets some of the committed members of its restoration team.
Jules Hudson puts the property wheels in motion in Hampshire as he helps a pottery-loving couple find a new country retreat for a budget of £640,000. Jules also meets up with a local volunteer who is helping to keep the county's motoring heritage in working order.
Aled Jones travels to Cornwall to help an adventure-loving couple with a £370,000 budget embark on their new life in the country. Away from the house hunt, Aled sets sail from Newquay Harbour to get a close-up view of the county's unique crab population.
Jules Hudson takes on a property hunt with scale, as he helps a couple with £850,000 find a rural property in Norfolk to house them, some relatives and an expanding business. Away from the search, Jules visits a local RSPCA centre to learn more about their efforts to protect the county's wildlife.
With a budget of £320,000, Jonnie Irwin tackles another house hunting mission, which is all about pets, parents and finding the perfect country pile in Kent. Plus, Jonnie discovers more about the historic highs and lows of Folkestone's Victorian cliff railway.
Jules Hudson hopes to hit the property high note, as he helps a creative couple with a budget of £650,000 find a rural home in the Cotswolds. While in the region, Jules hears the historic yarn of how one ancient crop that was once spun into cloth, is now used for building sustainable boats.
Alistair Appleton makes great strides in Derbyshire with a couple of keen walkers who have £400,000 to spend on their perfect rural property. During his journey, Alistair visits Chatsworth House and hears more about people and events linked to this iconic English stately home.
Nicki Chapman tries to find the winning property formula in Cornwall, as she helps a science teacher buy a country home on a budget of £240,000. While in the county, Nicki stops off for a home grown cuppa at Britain's very first tea plantation.
2013 · 50 episodes · Last episode: 11 years ago
Series 14 marks Sonali Shah's first appearance as part of the programme's presenting team.
Escape to the Country Series 14 release dates →Jonnie Irwin and Jules Hudson are showcasing Herefordshire in a special edition of Escape to the Country, following two couples searching for dream rural homes in one county. While highlighting Herefordshire's property gems, there are also hints and tips on buying in the county.
Nicki Chapman is on a property hunt in Devon helping a couple who are in search of a quieter life. They've got a healthy budget of £400,000 to spend on a new rural home. Away from the house hunt, Nicki discovers a Devonian shoemaker who shows her the art of crafting handmade boots.
Alistair Appleton and Nicki Chapman are showcasing Devon in a special edition of Escape to the Country, where we follow two couples who were searching for dream rural homes in one county.
Highlights from Alistair Appleton and Jules Hudson's property hunt in Dorset with two couples who were searching for dream rural homes in one county.
Highlights from Nicki Chapman and Jules Hudson's property hunt in Somerset with two couples who were searching for rural homes in one county.
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Alistair Appleton and Jules Hudson showcase Wiltshire in a special edition of Escape to the Country, where we follow two couples who were searching for dream rural homes in one county.
Prospective buyers are helped to find their dream home in the country. Jonnie Irwin and Jules Hudson showcase Kent in a special edition of Escape to the Country.
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Jonnie Irwin and Alistair Appleton showcase Suffolk in a special edition of Escape to the Country, which follows two couples who were searching for dream rural homes in one county.
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Nicki Chapman and Jonnie Irwin are in Cumbria for a special edition of Escape to the Country, following two couples searching for dream rural homes in one county. While showcasing Worcestershire's property gems, they offer hints and tips on buying in the county.
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Special episode featuring highlights from Alistair Appleton and Jonnie Irwin's property hunts in Sussex, with two couples looking for rural homes, plus a showcase of a dream Sussex property and offering hints and tips on buying in the area.
Jules Hudson searches for a home in Wiltshire for a couple of returning ex-pats.
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Sonali Shah is house-hunting in Hampshire with a couple wanting to escape the commuter belt and head for the peace of the countryside on a budget of £850,000. While in the area, Sonali helps to rein in some of the county's much-loved locals.
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Jules Hudson journeys through Devon, hoping to find a couple their perfect rural home on a budget of £575,000. Away from the house hunt, Jules takes a sip of the local tipple.
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Nicki Chapman is on an emotional property shop in Somerset with a couple who have £400,000 to spend. While in the county, Nicki investigates some unusual excavations.
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Sonali Shah searches for a home for a couple and their assortment of animals in the Shropshire countryside on a budget of £360,000. Away from the properties, Sonali comes face to face with some very prickly characters.
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Jules Hudson tries to help a young family relocate to the Kent countryside with a budget of £600,000. While in the county, Jules checks out an accidental, unintentional wartime asset.
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Sonali Shah helps a returning ex-pat who has been out of the country for nearly 30 years find her idyllic Oxfordshire home with up to £700,000 to spend. Away from the property search, Sonali visits the house that inspired one of Britain's greatest designers.
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Jules Hudson helps a couple realise their dream of a long-awaited rural retirement in Norfolk, with a budget of £425,000. Away from the property search, Jules discovers some of the county's dark secrets.
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Nicki Shields goes property shopping in Cornwall, hoping to find the perfect home for a couple wanting to relocate their whole family on a budget of £450,000. While in the area, Nicki turns her hand to the county's favourite dish and gets a lesson in crimping.
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Jules Hudson travels through south Devon, trying to find a rural home for a couple who want to pursue a life with land on a budget of £600,000. While in the county, Jules meets the monks of Buckfast Abbey.
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Jonnie Irwin hopes to find a home in the West Sussex countryside for three generations of one family, on a generous budget of £850,000. Away from the house hunt, Jonnie finds out about one of our country's great aviation triumphs.
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Jules Hudson helps a couple who are taking a break from their busy careers find a new home and a whole new business venture in the Dorset countryside with a generous budget of £1.5 million. Away from the houses, Jules discovers a brand new scheme where fishermen are protecting the sea and their livelihoods on the Dorset coast.
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Alistair Appleton is offering a couple of committed country lovers the chance to escape the city for good and set up home in Monmouthshire on a budget of £450,000. While in the county, Alistair metamorphoses into a butterfly catcher.
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Jonnie Irwin helps a couple find a rural home in Cumbria where they can expand their business and surround themselves and their family with nature, all on a budget of £500,000. Away from the house hunt, Jonnie tackles one of the highest and steepest mountain passes in the county.
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Jules Hudson faces one of his trickiest house hunts yet, with a couple searching for their perfect home in Somerset on a budget of £500,000. Aside from the houses, Jules discovers an unusual way to brush a horse's tail.
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Alistair Appleton helps a couple who have been married for 35 years find their very first home together in Dorset, on a budget of £650,000. While in the area, Alistair meets a cantankerous character who has been a familiar face on Weymouth beach for well over a hundred years.
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Jonnie Irwin helps a couple of new parents find a rural retreat in Kent so they can experience country living in the UK for the first time. With a budget of £650,000, can he deliver? Away from the house hunt, Jonnie takes to the cliffs to learn the art of traffic control on a very busy stretch of water.
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Nicki Shields journeys through Gloucestershire, hoping to find an idyllic home on a budget of £750,000. And Nicki takes a break from houses to visit some of the county's more unusual residents.
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Jonnie Irwin helps a couple of lifelong suburbanites move to the south Devon countryside with a budget of £600,000. During his visit, Jonnie learns about the wildlife wonder under threat from Mother Nature.
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Alistair Appleton is in Worcestershire, seeking a home for a couple and their horse.
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Jonnie Irwin is helping an entrepreneurial couple flee city life and find a new dream home and a new business in the Cheshire countryside, on a budget of £650,000. Away from the house hunt, Jonnie visits one of Cheshire's most iconic structures that dominates the local landscape.
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Jules Hudson is hoping to find a couple the peace and quiet they crave in rural Herefordshire with a budget of £750,000. Away from the property hunt, Jules finds out what it means to own a piece of English history.
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Jonnie Irwin helps a couple of returning ex-pats with a budget of £750,000 find a Cotswolds rural retreat. While in the Cotswolds, Jonnie visits one of Britain's miniature villages.
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Nicki Chapman rises to the challenge to find a home for a couple in Cumbria, with enough space for their mother on a budget of £500,000. While in the area, Nicki meets a hardy breed of Cumbrian locals.
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Jonnie Irwin travels through Cornwall looking for a peaceful Cornish home with holiday let potential for a couple with a budget of £500,000. Away from the property hunt, Jonnie joins an elite crew of oarsmen at one of the county's top regattas.
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Jules Hudson hopes to find a spiritual healer his rural idyll in Dorset with a budget of £350,000. Away from the houses, Jules goes in search of some very slippery local residents.
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Jonnie Irwin goes house hunting in West Sussex with a couple looking for their dream home with a generous budget of £850,000. Elsewhere in the county, Jonnie saddles up for a rather challenging sport.
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Nicki Chapman journeys through Devon, helping a couple find a new life and possible business in the Devon countryside with a budget of £550,000. While in the county, Nicki gets carried away with the fun of the fair.
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Alistair Appleton goes property shopping with a couple from Essex who want to escape to rural Suffolk with a budget of £400,000. Away from the house hunt, Alistair gets to grips with some unusual heritage vegetables.
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Jonnie Irwin attempts to find a rural home and a business for a couple wanting to relocate their family to North Yorkshire on a budget of £650,000. While in the county, Jonnie tries his hand at some traditional farming methods.
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Jules Hudson travels through Staffordshire to find the perfect rural home for a recently retired couple for a budget of £400,000. They may need to downsize to get what they want, which could prove a challenge. Away from the house hunt, Jules gets up close to the Staffordshire Hoard, the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork ever found.
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Alistair Appleton attempts to find a couple their perfect rural retreat in Sussex for a budget of £800,000. While in the area, Alistair learns more about the county's defining architectural feature.
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Nicki Chapman embarks on an emotional house hunt with a couple armed with a £420,000 budget, who are chasing a country dream in Somerset. Away from the property search, Nicki visits the historic Haynes Motor Museum.
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Jonnie Irwin is in North Yorkshire with a young family who have a budget of £350,000 to spend on a dream rural home. While in the county, Jonnie learns about the 'Mouseman', a legend in the world of handcrafted furniture.
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Alistair Appleton introduces a couple of city dwellers to the rural charms of Wiltshire, hoping to find them a perfect country home. While in the county, Alistair gets the lowdown on an epic canal restoration project.
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Jules Hudson helps a family with a £700,000 budget seek out a country retreat in Hampshire where three generations can live together. While in the county, Jules visits England's oldest almshouses.
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Nicki Chapman is in Devon, helping a couple in search of a quieter life. They have a healthy budget of £400,000 to spend on a new rural home. Away from the house hunt, Nicki discovers a Devonian shoemaker who shows her the art of crafting hand-made boots.
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Alistair Appleton is hoping to find the perfect rural retreat in Herefordshire for a couple on the cusp of retirement, with a budget of £400,000. While in the county, Alistair visits a farm that makes a special blackcurrant liquor.
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Jules Hudson is on a rural property hunt in Somerset, where he helps a family of six with a budget of £360,000 to find their dream rural home. Away from the house search, Jules visits a historic ship, SS Great Britain in Bristol.
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Alistair Appleton takes on a property hunting mission with a couple who want to escape their housing estate in Coventry to find a new rural life in Devon with a budget of £530,000. Away from the property hunt, Alistair learns about the county's maritime tradition by meeting a group of sea shanty singers.
2014 · 50 episodes · Last episode: 11 years ago
The 15th series saw the departure of Denise Nurse, following 8 years on the presenting team.
Escape to the Country Series 15 release dates →Jonnie Irwin helps a house-hunting couple who met while travelling the world as airline cabin crew. They plan to find their feet in rural Shropshire and have a healthy £550,000 with which to purchase their new country home. While in the county, Jonnie helps bring in a crop which gives beer its bitter flavour.
Sonali Shah travels to Cornwall to help in the house hunt of a couple of retirees who are seeking a new life in the country. They have a substantial budget of £500,000 to fund their proposed rural move. Sonali also visits a Falmouth enterprise which is working to keep Cornwall's boat-building heritage alive.
Jonnie Irwin has an especially challenging task on his hands as he tries to find a family home in rural Surrey for three generations. Their property hunt is helped by an exceptional budget, but will he manage to satisfy the needs of all family members?
Sonali Shah is challenged to help a couple who are planning to wave goodbye to town living and embrace a new life in the countryside. With £450,000 to spend, the buyers are seeking an enchanting rural retreat in Dorset.
Jonnie Irwin helps a couple of property hunters who believe they were born to live in the country. With £550,000 to spend, the buyers are seeking their first rural home together in Cornwall. Away from the house hunt, Jonnie is tempted by a career change as he experiences life on the Helford River.
Jules Hudson is in North Wales helping a couple to find their first home together. Their dream Welsh rural property needs to come with a price tag of £300,000. Jules gets to experience the dramatic local landscape first-hand as he tries white-water rafting.
Sonali Shah joins a couple with an exceptional budget who are planning a rural relocation in Devon while also seeking out a substantial business opportunity in the countryside. Besides the house hunting, Sonali dons her climbing boots as she scales a dramatic Devonian landmark.
Nicki Chapman goes property shopping with a couple who are finally able to leave the county they've called home all their lives. With £460,000 to spend, they are planning to relocate to the Cornish countryside. Away from the house hunt, Nicki gets a bird's-eye view of Britain's largest rainforest.
Jules Hudson helps a couple from the commuter belt realise their dream of moving to rural Somerset, with a budget of £450,000 to spend. Away from the house hunt, Jules witnesses the destruction caused by flooding.
Sonali Shah goes house hunting in Devon with a couple of childhood sweethearts who have spent the last 20 years living in France. While in the county, Sonali gets wet exploring one of Devon's most celebrated rivers in a unique way.
Nicki Chapman helps a couple relocate to the Gloucestershire countryside with a healthy budget of £550,000 to spend. While in the region, Nicki explores the extraordinary collection of an English eccentric.
Jules Hudson is property-shopping in Devon with a couple who plan to return to the county where they first met and fell in love. There's a budget of £425,000 to spend on their rural relocation. Away from the house hunt, Jules discovers the art of charcoal making.
Nicki Chapman helps a budding writer and her husband escape urban life for a quieter one in the Worcestershire countryside with a budget of £375,000. While in the area, Nicki meets a local craftsman who is preserving an equine tradition.
Jules Hudson helps a couple of retirees find a cosy and characterful property in the Dorset countryside. They have a healthy budget of £700,000 to fund their rural dream. While in the county, Jules learns the country art of thatching.
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Nicki Chapman house hunts with a newly married couple who want to escape London life and move closer to family. The hunting ground is the rural East Midlands, and there's a £400,000 budget to fund their country relocation. While in the area, Nicki takes a fancy to some award-winning feathered friends.
Jules Hudson helps a couple to find a home with business potential. They have a budget of £450,000 to spend on a rural Yorkshire property. While in the county, Jules learns about the art of ploughing from a six nations champion.
Nicki Chapman goes house hunting with a couple of childhood sweethearts who are seeking a rural retreat in Somerset after living in urban Croydon all their lives. They have a generous budget of £800,000 to fund their country relocation. While in the area, Nicki visits a local business which has an association with some famous names.
Nicki Chapman helps a music composer realise her dream of escaping suburbia for the Shropshire countryside, on a budget of £450,000. Away from the house hunt, Nicki visits a stately home which is raising the roof.
Nicki Chapman helps a music composer realise her dream of escaping suburbia for the Shropshire countryside, on a budget of £450,000. Away from the house hunt, Nicki visits a stately home which is raising the roof.
Alistair Appleton helps a London couple find a new home with holiday let potential in the Cornish countryside, with £500,000 to spend. While in the county, Alistair gets a taste of the sea.
Jules Hudson house hunts with a newlywed couple who plan to escape London life for the more rural surrounds of Hertfordshire. They have a healthy budget of £750,000 to fund their country dream. While in the county, Jules visits a conservation project which aims to protect the UK butterfly population.
Alistair Appleton helps a couple swap city living for island life as they property shop on the Isle of Wight with a budget of £350,000. While on the island, Alistair visits an artisan globe maker.
Nicki Chapman helps a couple to kick off their retirement in the Wiltshire countryside with a healthy budget of £600,000 to spend on their rural relocation. While in the county, Nicki visits a Wiltshire British factory with a sporting pedigree.
Jonnie Irwin helps a couple swap urban London life for rural Somerset. They are seeking a home with holiday business potential and have a healthy budget of £650,000 to fund the move. While in the area, Jonnie visits the world's largest balloon factory to learn what keeps them aloft.
Jules Hudson helps a couple to leave London and find a dream home in the Somerset countryside. They have a very healthy budget of £1 million with which to do it. While in the county, Jules visits Weston-super-Mare, where some impressive sand sculpture is on display.
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Alistair Appleton is property shopping with a couple of recently retired teachers who are seeking a rural home in Derbyshire. Away from the house hunt, Alistair goes underground to unearth a unique county gem.
Nicki Chapman is house hunting in north Wales with a couple that wants to turn holiday memories into a retirement dream on a budget of £430,000. While in the area, Nicki tests her head for heights with a spectacular piece of engineering.
Jonnie Irwin is property shopping with a couple of university sweethearts buying their first home together in the countryside. The North Yorkshire property hunt has a healthy budget of £650,000. While in the area, Jonnie visits the widest home in the country.
Jules Hudson is house hunting with a couple who plan to swap suburban Essex for a more peaceful life in rural Worcestershire. They have £350,000 to fund their rural dream. While in the county, Jules is shown the art of foraging for food in the Cotswolds.
Nicki Chapman is hoping to find a rural Dorset home for a couple from London who have a healthy budget of £875,000 to spend. While in the county, Nicki tries her hand at traditional green woodworking.
Denise Nurse helps a couple of returning expats find a new home in the Somerset countryside with a budget of £400,000 to spend. While in the region, Denise discovers how the Victorians turned a pile of putty into a work of art.
Jules Hudson helps a multilingual couple seek a translation to a more rural setting in the Herefordshire countryside. They have £500,000 to spend on their country relocation. Away from the property shopping, Jules visits the eco-friendly energy project that's hotting up in the county's woodland
Jonnie Irwin helps a couple of music lovers who are planning a rural relocation. They are looking to ditch their urban lifestyles to live in harmony in the Cambridgeshire countryside with a budget of £500,000. While there, Jonnie pays a visit to one of the largest Bronze Age sites in Britain.
Nicki Chapman is in Cornwall helping a couple swap their urban lives in Hertfordshire for a more peaceful life in the countryside. They have £350,000 to spend on their rural retreat. While in the region, Nicki strikes gold with the county's historic export.
Jonnie Irwin helps a couple trade in the bright lights of Bristol for the rolling hills of West Somerset, with a healthy budget of £475,000 to fund the rural relocation. While in the area, Jonnie gets bogged down on Exmoor as he inspects a moorland conservation project.
Jules Hudson helps a mother-and-daughter team escape from suburban Surrey to begin a new life in rural North Yorkshire. Away from the house hunt, Jules visits Richmond Castle and discover its wartime secrets.
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Alistair Appleton is house hunting with a couple looking to buy their first home together in the Northumberland countryside on a budget of £300,000. While in the county, Alistair discovers how a house in rural Northumberland was at the forefront of technological progress in the nineteenth century.
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Nicki Chapman is in the North Yorkshire countryside helping a father and daughter team search for a new rural home. With a budget of £550,000 to spend they need a property to house the whole family. Away from the property hunt, Nicki tries her hand at restoring a historic stained-glass window.
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Jules Hudson helps a couple who dream of returning to the Welsh countryside. They have a budget of £500,000 to spend on a Monmouthshire retreat. Away from the house hunt, Jules meets some residents from an eco community in the Brecon Beacons National Park.
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Alistair Appleton is in the county of Dorset with a couple who have a very generous budget of £1.2 million to spend on a rural home. Alistair also visits the RNLI training centre and finds himself treading water.
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Nicki Chapman is helping a couple find their first rural property together in Devon. The buyers have a budget of £400,000 to spend on their long-dreamed-of country home. Away from the house hunt, Nicki encounters the prehistoric fish behind the world's most luxurious food.
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Jules Hudson is house hunting with a couple looking for a new rural home in the Wiltshire countryside. They have a generous budget of £600,000 to spend on their dream country property. While in the region, Jules visits a fitting memorial to the troops who passed through the county on their way to the Western Front.
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Jonnie Irwin is in Wales property shopping with a couple looking for a home and business in the Carmarthenshire countryside. They have a generous budget of £600,000 to spend on their rural dream. Away from the house hunt, Jonnie visits a community-run business making the country's national instrument.
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Nicki Chapman helps a couple leave the busy town of Hull to find a home in rural Lincolnshire with bed and breakfast potential on a budget of £300,000. While in the county, Nicki gets a taste of the latest superfood.
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Jules Hudson is house hunting with two sisters who dream of escaping their urban homes and moving to the Devon countryside on a budget of £490,000. Away from the property search, Jules tries his hand at one of the county's oldest trades.
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Sonali Shah helps a couple with a budget of £550,000 ditch their busy lives beside the English seaside and embark on a quieter life in rural north Wales. While in the area, Sonali learns how a pretty plant is threatening the local landscape.
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Jonnie Irwin is house-hunting with a couple who plan to escape the busy Bedfordshire town of Luton for the peace and quiet of the Norfolk countryside, on a budget of £450,000. While in the county, Jonnie samples a tasty local delicacy.
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Jules Hudson is property shopping with a couple of nature lovers who yearn for great views and open spaces, and they're willing to move 500 miles to the Scottish Highlands to find them. With a budget of £325,000, can Jules find them their dream home? Away from the house hunt, Jules samples a Scottish brew of a rather different kind.
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Nicki Chapman has a challenge on her hands helping to uncover a new rural home in the Cotswolds for a couple with very exacting requirements. While in the region, Nicki rubs shoulders with three Olympic heroes.
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Alistair Appleton helps a father-in-law and daughter-in-law duo who are looking for a sizeable home in rural County Durham. With a substantial budget of £700,000 to fund the property purchase, will they manage to find a home to suit three generations? Away from the house hunt, Alistair gets to taste the local tipple.
2015 · 50 episodes · Last episode: 10 years ago
This series saw the addition of Ginny Buckley to the presenting team.
Escape to the Country Series 16 release dates →
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A couple want to spend their retirement in the peace and quiet of the Scottish borders and Alistair Appleton is on hand to help them find the perfect pad for their £350,000 budget. Alistair also visits a mill which has been weaving the country's iconic fabric, tweed, since the early 19th century.
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Nicki Chapman is house hunting in Derbyshire with a couple who have a budget of £380,000 to find their dream rural home. Away from houses, Nicki gets a real taste of the county when she meets traditional dairy producers reviving a village's cheese-making heritage.
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Alistair Appleton is on a property-seeking mission with a retired couple who have £700,000 to find their ideal country home in Hampshire. Whilst in the county, Alistair meets apprentice furniture makers keeping the early 20th-century arts and craft design principles relevant today.
Nicki Chapman is on a rural property hunt in Devon, helping a couple to find their ideal country home for £400,000. Nicki also finds out about the county's heritage underfoot when she visits a centuries-old carpet manufacturer.
Alistair Appleton is house-hunting with a couple who have £500,000 to buy their first property together, closer to family in the picturesque Peak District. Whilst in the county, Alistair meets an innovative farmer who is growing a field of furniture.
Nicki Chapman is property shopping with a buyer looking to swap the hustle and bustle of London for the tranquillity of the Shropshire countryside on a budget of £350,000. Nicki also delves deep into the county's mining heritage when she descends underground at the end of a rope.
Jules Hudson is in Cornwall helping an Essex couple with a budget of £450,000 find the right rural property to suit their opposing styles. During his time in the county, Jules visits the birthplace of British studio pottery and throws his very own Cornish clay pot.
Jules Hudson is house-hunting in north Wales with a couple who have a budget of £600,000 to find their perfect property. Jules also makes the climb up to a 13th-century Welsh castle to find out why the ruins of this former stronghold are worth preserving.
Jules Hudson is house-hunting in Cornwall with a married couple from Berkshire who have a budget of £450,000 to find a rural Cornish idyll, complete with a five-bar gate. From country cottages to a medieval manor, Jules also makes time to explore the Grade I-listed Cotehele House.
Jules Hudson is on a property-hunting mission in Oxfordshire with two fun-loving young newlyweds who have a budget of £400,000 to bid farewell to the City and return to their countryside roots to start a family. Turning the pages of the county's rich academic heritage, Jules visits a bespoke bookbinder who's keeping traditional handcrafted techniques alive.
With a property budget of £425,000 to spend, Ginny Buckley is in Norfolk helping retirees make a return to the British countryside after 30 years living in Spain.
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Sonali Shah is helping a couple with a £650,000 property budget who want to leave their home in Surrey and settle in the north Devon countryside.
Ginny Buckley is helping a couple, with a £450,000 property budget, who want to up sticks from Hertfordshire to make a new life in the Northamptonshire countryside, closer to their family. The county was once the epicentre of footwear manufacturing, so whilst there, Ginny gets her foot in the door of a sixth generation bespoke bootmaker.
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Sonali Shah is helping a couple from Essex who have a £400,000 budget to find some rural respite in the Suffolk countryside.
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Jules Hudson is on a property hunting mission in the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. With a £500,000 budget, he's helping a couple to buy their very first British home, and traditional character is high on their wish list. Plus, Jules visits a master clockmaker and examines the delicate inner workings of a 300 year old timepiece.
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Jules Hudson is house hunting in Dorset with a couple who hope their £600,000 budget will secure them a country home with some income-generating potential. Also, Jules opens the door on how to make a traditional shepherd's hut, the new 'des res' of rural holidaying.
Jules Hudson heads to Herefordshire to advise a couple who have a budget of £650,000 to invest in a country home with holiday letting potential. While there, the presenter also visits the county's Rural Crafts Centre and learns the skills of blacksmithing.
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Jules Hudson goes property hunting in rural Wiltshire with a couple who have £950,000 to buy a family home with land, where they and their young children can enjoy a self-sufficient lifestyle. Jules also takes time out to find out about the county's glove-making heritage and sees some famous examples made for famous figures.
Alistair Appleton goes property hunting in North Devon for a couple whose search for a country home on a £325,000 budget has so far fallen short. He also learns about a unique local pigment, known as Bideford Black, and enjoys the artistic freedom of painting on the beach.
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Alistair Appleton is in the Cotswolds on an unusual house-hunting mission with a couple whose £900,000 budget needs to fund two separate homes under one roof.
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Alistair Appleton goes property shopping in Dorset with a buyer looking for a fresh start in the country. She has a budget of £380,000 to purchase a new 'forever' home. Alistair also goes fishing for seafood off the coast of Lyme Regis and samples some local whelks.
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Sonali Shah goes house-hunting in Cheshire with an expat couple who want their £450,000 budget to transport them back from Germany to the British countryside. While in the area, Sonali learns more about Cheshire's waterways and visits one of the UK's largest collections of traditional canal craft.
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Alistair Appleton is in Devon helping a couple of journalists to find a characterful country home with holiday let potential. They have a generous property budget of £700,000 with which to make the move. While in the county, Alistair meets a pioneering young sheep farmer and gets a masterclass in hand shearing the grey-faced Dartmoor sheep.
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Sonali Shah is house hunting with a couple who have a £750,000 budget to make the break from the Home Counties and return to their roots in the Derbyshire countryside. Sonali also puts her best foot forward and visits a longstanding family-run bootmaker in the Peak District, a reminder of the many local factories which once supplied the mining workforce during the Industrial Revolution.
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Jonnie Irwin goes property hunting with a couple of new grandparents who have a budget of £800,000 to buy a rural home in Wiltshire, close to their family. Whilst there, Jonnie learns a traditional process of curing Wiltshire bacon and savours the results.
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Nicki Chapman helps a fun-loving couple who have £400,000 to fulfil their dream of moving to Dorset. Her visit to the county is perfectly timed to coincide with the 2015 British Beach Polo Championship, where she gets in the saddle to master basic skills.
Jonnie Irwin travels to Cornwall to help a horse-loving mother find rural respite with a £465,000 budget.
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Alistair Appleton is in north Somerset with a couple who have £750,000 to purchase their very first home together in the countryside. Whilst in the county, Alistair takes a seashore safari along the northern coast.
Jules Hudson is on a property-hunting mission in Monmouthshire with two returning expats and their two young daughters who are seeking a rural family home.
Jonnie Irwin is on a property hunt with a couple who hope their £650,000 budget will afford them a more outdoor-focused life in the Hampshire countryside. Jonnie freshens up when he visits a farm reviving English-grown peppermint.
Nicki Chapman is helping a globe-trotting young couple who are returning to the UK with £425,000 to find peaceful and permanent sanctuary in the Lincolnshire countryside where they can raise their daughter. And it's hello and goodbye as Nicki bids an emotional farewell when a rehabilitated seal is released back into the wild.
Alistair Appleton welcomes returning expats to the Gloucestershire countryside where they hope to retire with a generous £700,000 budget for a rural home. He arrives in perfect time for the springtime hatch of rare breed ducklings protected by a conservation effort at Slimbridge Wetland Centre.
Jonnie Irwin is tasked with helping a nomadic couple find their 16th home. They have £500,000 to spend on a picturesque property near the Devon coast. As a diversion from house hunting, Johnnie takes a refreshing pit stop at an ecofriendly brewery.
Alistair Appleton is house hunting on a budget of £470,000 with a couple looking to begin a new life in rural Shropshire. Alistair also visits a family-run farm which has diversified to become the UK's first commercial producer of quinoa, an ancient grain normally found in South America.
Jonnie Irwin is on a multi-generational property mission to help a mother and son from London find rural harmony in the Hampshire countryside. Veering off track from bricks and mortar, it's full steam ahead as he takes the controls of a vintage locomotive on the county's historic Watercress Line.
Jonnie Irwin is in Sussex with a house-hunting couple who hope their £650,000 budget will secure them their perfect rural retreat. Along the way, Jonnie visits Arundel Castle while it is in the throes of hosting the largest medieval jousting tournament in the country.
Alistair Appleton is property shopping in rural north Wales with a couple who have £400,000 to make their return from France to UK soil. While in the area, Alistair rides the Great Orme tramway, a travel highlight for tourists for over a century.
Nicki Chapman is in Devon helping a fun-loving couple with £475,000 find a country home which suits their entertaining ambitions. While in the county, she tries her hand at traditional glass blowing and is delighted by the results.
Jonnie Irwin goes on an Oxfordshire property hunt with a couple of brothers, where one has £675,000 to buy himself a character country home. Jonnie also sets sail on the River Thames to experience pleasure boating in true Victorian tradition.
Jules Hudson is house hunting in Shropshire with a couple who have £400,000 to find a foster-friendly country property. While in the area, Jules goes behind the scenes at the Ironbridge Museum and gets up close to a historic River Severn working boat that is being restored to its former glory.
Jonnie Irwin is in Cheshire with a house-hunting pair who hope their £650,000 budget will secure them a country retreat. Along the way, Jonnie visits Bostock Green on the Tatton Estate to find out what it takes to create the 'perfect' village.
With a budget of £400,000, Jules Hudson is house hunting with a couple who seek a new rural life in Cheshire.
Nicki Chapman helps a property hunting couple with £650,000 to spend swap the fast pace of London life for a village community in Dorset. While in the county, Nicki learns more about how the Lulworth Estate rangers' conservation efforts help to maintain the Jurassic coastline and countryside.
Sonali Shah goes house hunting in north Devon with a dog-loving couple whose £575,000 budget needs to fund the purchase of a country home with land to realise their business plans. While in the area, Sonali explores the history of Ilfracombe's beach tunnels, which paved the way for the Victorians to enjoy visits to the seaside.
Alistair Appleton goes house hunting with a couple who have £425,000 to spend on a move away from busy coastal city living to rural South Somerset. While in the area, Alistair visits Somerset County Cricket Club and learns about its heritage and passion for championing this traditional English sport.
Jonnie Irwin is in rural Lincolnshire helping two canal boat enthusiasts find the perfect rural pad to suit their lives on dry land. Away from the house hunt, he helps to power up one of the county's iconic windmills.
Jules Hudson heads to Anglesey to help a couple with £300,000 find a permanent base on the Welsh island that has long been their favourite holiday destination. Away from the house hunt, Jules finds out about the prehistoric character that defines the local landscape and learns some Bronze Age skills.
Alistair Appleton is in Suffolk helping two city slickers escape the demands of London life with a £550,000 budget. While in the county, he takes to the water on board one of the few surviving Thames barges.
Nicki Chapman helps a buyer who is property shopping with her best friend. She has £375,000 to find some countryside respite to suit her and her elderly mother. Away from the house hunt, Nicki meets a fashion-entrepreneur-turned-horticulturist with designs on an iconic Somerset garden.
Ginny Buckley supports a sociable and successful couple who are looking to buy their first home together in rural Staffordshire. Their healthy £700,000 budget turns up an assortment of attractive properties, and Ginny learns about the county's driving force, something that has influenced agriculture and architecture across the globe.
2016 · 50 episodes · Last episode: 9 years ago
Veteran TV presenter Margherita Taylor joined the presenting team during the programme's 17th series.
Escape to the Country Series 17 release dates →
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Jonnie Irwin helps a rural property-shopping couple with an £850,000 budget put down roots closer to family in Somerset. Along the way Jonnie visits Glastonbury and learns how its religious past and strong links to English legend still resonate with people there today.
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Alistair Appleton is on a house-hunting mission with a dynamic couple in the Herefordshire countryside, hoping they fall in love with the homes they see for their £565,000 budget. Along the way, Alistair heads to the banks of the River Wye to get to grips with paddle boarding, an ever growing low-impact water sport.
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Ginny Buckley is on a house-hunting mission in rural Devon with a couple excited at the prospect of buying their first home together with their £525,000 budget. While in the county, Ginny heads to Salcombe Bay and sets sail in a Salcombe yawl, once a traditional fishing vessel and now a popular racing yacht, which has special design features to help chart these choppy waters.
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Nicki Chapman heads to the south Wales countryside to help a couple with £500,000 to spend on relocating from Newport to a village community. While in the region, Nicki visits the only whisky distillery in Wales which uses the mineral-rich water of the Brecon Beacons - to potent effect.
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Jonnie Irwin is in rural Gloucestershire helping a house-hunting couple of empty-nesters with £700,000 who want to buy themselves a slice of country village life. While in the area, Jonnie heads to the Cotswold Gliding Club and takes to the skies in a glider, giving him a thrilling bird's-eye view of the countryside below.
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Alistair Appleton is on a property-searching mission in north Devon with a house buyer who has been tasked by her husband to find their perfect country home on a £600,000 budget. While in the area, Alistair boards the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway and enjoys the thrill of driving a restored gauge engine across Exmoor, tracing the same rail route used by Victorian passengers.
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Jules Hudson is in the Shropshire countryside with a couple of parents who have £575,000 to spend on a home for them and their young son. While in the county, Jules visits the Acton Scott Estate, home to an authentic Victorian working farm, and tries his hand at being a wheelwright's apprentice.
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Jonnie Irwin heads to the east Midlands to help a couple find a comfortable country home that brings them closer to family for £450,000. While in the region, Jonnie visits the 'Leicester Line' of the Grand Union canal, a stretch where narrow boats have to navigate a total of 59 locks. Jonnie tries his hand at lock keeper's duties, including operating the floodgates.
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Alistair Appleton goes rural property shopping in Exmoor with a newlywed couple who have a £625,000 budget for a country home that will house his parents and provide her with land for horses. While in the area, Alistair heads to the coastal village of Porlock to find out how local oyster farming has been radically revived after more than a century. While the tide is out, he has the chance to sample them, fresh from the nets.
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Nicki Chapman heads to the Welsh Borders with a retired couple of keen gardeners who have £500,000 to plough into buying a peaceful home in the country. While in the area, Nicki meets one of the very few weathervane makers left in the UK and, while trying her hand at creating one, she learns why it has been such a striking symbol gracing the tops of churches and manor houses across the countryside for centuries.
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Jonnie Irwin is house-hunting for a handsome country property in Oxfordshire with a couple who have a healthy £900,000 budget. While in the county, Jonnie finds out about making charcoal the environmentally friendly way and samples some food smoked using locally sourced wood.
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Alistair Appleton is on a unique house-hunting mission in Herefordshire, helping two brothers who have pooled their resources to have £800,000 to find the right country home where they can live together. And it's the perfect time to be in the region, as Alistair is given an exclusive invitation to experience the best in British agriculture at the Royal Three Counties Show.
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Jules Hudson guides a soon-to-be-married, dog-loving couple who hope to start a new life as husband and wife in the Norfolk countryside on a budget of £600,000. Whilst in the county, Jules joins volunteers trackside at the world's smallest public railway before climbing aboard for a scenic sightseeing voyage through the countryside.
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Jules Hudson guides a couple on a West Yorkshire journey, where they hope to find a dream property for £500,000 that must have enough space to fit a beloved model railway. Away from the house hunt, Jules finds out if the caps fit at one of Yorkshire's finest heritage fabric mills.
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Nicki Chapman goes property shopping with a London couple who have a £700,000 budget to leave the capital and put down retirement roots in East Sussex. While in the county, Nicki rides the Hastings East Hill Cliff Railway, the UK's steepest funicular railway.
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Alistair Appleton travels to Suffolk with a retired couple who have £525,000 to find their dream country home with an annexe for mum. Away from the house hunting, Alistair visits a pioneering farm where local volunteers dig deep and share the rewards of their harvest.
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Time is of the essence on this country relocation in Worcestershire, where Ginny Buckley is helping a married couple find their ideal rural property for a £410,000 budget. Ginny also meets dedicated volunteers devoted to rescuing and relocating historic buildings from around the country.
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Jonnie Irwin is in rural Somerset with a retired couple who have a £700,000 budget and firm ideas on the vision for their perfect country home. Along the way, Jonnie masters the thrilling sport of land yachting at Brean Sands where, thanks to a prevailing wind, he picks up the pace along this beautiful stretch of beach.
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Jules Hudson heads to the Scottish Borders with a couple who want their £450,000 budget to buy them an equestrian property in the country. Jules also visits the dramatic ruins of Melrose Abbey, where the heart of Scotland's medieval king Robert the Bruce is believed to be buried.
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Nicki Chapman is in the Gloucestershire countryside helping a couple with an £850,000 budget find a rural home with holiday-let potential and land for alpacas. While in the county, Nicki visits Rodburgh Common and gets the scoop on a family who have been making ice cream there for nearly a century.
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Alistair Appleton is in rural Shropshire with a couple who want their £500,000 budget to give them and their young children a life in the outdoors with community close by. While in the county, Alistair visits the mansion of Attingham Park to see the recent restoration successes for himself, as well as discovering some intriguing stories from its past.
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Jonnie Irwin helps a couple scour the Somerset countryside for the finest rural homes they can buy for their £900,000 budget, complete with space for a helipad. Along the way, Jonnie meets Taunton farmer Ed Ling, who was the bronze medal winner in trap shooting for Great Britain at the Rio Olympics. Ed and wife Abby take a break from the harvest to show Jonnie how to trap shoot like a professional.
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Jonnie Irwin is helping a couple with a £425,000 budget head for rural Wiltshire in a bid to enjoy more wildlife and outdoor pursuits. While there, Jonnie goes underground and learns more about the secret intelligence activities of the Auxiliary Unit during the Second World War. This intriguing operation was masterminded by Captain Peter Fleming, brother of Bond author Ian Fleming.
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Jules Hudson plays house-hunting Cupid in Shropshire with newlyweds who have £400,000 to buy a country home that gives them room in the future for a growing family. While in the county, Jules visits Weston Park, an estate shaped by the historic pioneer of landscape design Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. Jules learns more about Brown's life and legacy in the year which celebrates the tercentenary of his birth.
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Nicki Chapman is in Norfolk to help a father and daughter who hope their £700,000 budget will provide them with a large equestrian property and annexe to house their family of four, along with their horse. Nicki also heads to the Norfolk Broads and learns about the restoration efforts of the Norfolk Wherry Trust before heading out on to the water to sail one of these traditional wooden boats.
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Sonali Shah is in rural Somerset helping a retired teacher return to her West Country roots and find her country home with a £385,000 budget. While in the county, Sonali visits a local farm which has diversified into lavender growing. With the fields in full bloom, Sonali sees how the crop is harvested and has a chance to try her hand at making traditional lavender products.
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Nicki Chapman is on a house-hunting mission in the Yorkshire Dales with a pair of brothers, one of whom wants his £500,000 budget to furnish him with a country home in rural isolation. While in the area, Nicki joins the Dales park rangers and helps them on their everyday rounds, as well as learning about the growing popularity of geocaching with walkers.
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Sonali Shah heads to Yorkshire to help a couple of retired teachers with a £450,000 budget find a country home and finally return to their family roots. Along the way, Sonali meets a young Dales farmer who is using his dairy herd to produce Icelandic-inspired Skyr yoghurt.
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Jonnie Irwin is house hunting in the South Wales countryside with an itinerant couple who have £600,000 to find a rural retreat close to their growing grandchildren. While in the area, Jonnie heads to the south coast of Monmouthshire, and tries his hand at catching a salmon using the rare art of lave net fishing, a traditional skill which stretches back 400 years.
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Ginny Buckley is on a house-hunting mission to help a couple with a £525,000 budget find a country home in north Cornwall to retire to. Along the way, Ginny visits the annual Royal Cornwall Show, which has showcased the county's heritage for over 220 years. While there, Ginny samples the traditional nettle-covered yarg cheese and sees if a very rare breed of sheep manages to win a best-in-class rosette.
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Margherita Taylor is property-hunting in Shropshire with a couple of keen gardeners on a £425,000 budget who want to buy a country home with ample space for them and their hot tub. While in the county, Margherita samples some of Shropshire's pioneering local produce at Chadwell Park Farm, which has successfully turned its hand to making vegetable juices from its salad crops.
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Sonali Shah heads to the north Devon countryside to help a career-minded couple with £950,000 to spend on a family home and start up a holiday-let business. While in the county, Sonali visits the UK's first Unesco biosphere reserve to learn about the long-term ambitions to connect people and nature, as well as the efforts to conserve one of the most fragile grassland areas in the south west of the country.
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Ginny Buckley is tasked with helping a couple who have £375,000 to find their forever home in the Dorset countryside. Ginny also visits the renowned Lyme Regis Boat Building Academy and takes an exhilarating trip in a traditional sailing vessel.
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Ginny Buckley helps a couple with a £600,000 budget relocate to the Lancashire countryside, putting them a healthy distance from their grown-up children. Along the way, Ginny heads to the Victorian seaside resort of Blackpool and gets her teeth into the heritage of the stick of rock.
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Nicki Chapman helps a couple who want to turn their backs on London life to fulfil their long-held dream of moving to the countryside. Armed with a budget of £1.1 million, they have set their sights on a new life in West Sussex. Away from the house hunt, Nicki visits one of the county's greatest architectural gems, Chichester Cathedral, where she tries her hands at ringing the bells.
Jules Hudson helps a couple who have a £500,000 budget to start a new life in the Oxfordshire countryside, closer to loved ones. Jules also visits an impressive 17th-century Jacobean house where dust and cobwebs play a vital role in its story of survival.
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Margherita Taylor is in the country's smallest county helping a young mother to carve out a new country life for her family with a budget of £450,000. Margherita also visits Rutland Water, where she gets a hands-on course in fly-fishing to find out what she might catch for dinner.
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Jonnie Irwin is house hunting in Dorset with couple who have a £650,000 budget to realise their dream of retiring in the country. Jonnie also gets a real taste of the county when he visits an award-winning dairy farm putting the county's cheeses on the culinary map.
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Margherita Taylor is in North Yorkshire helping a lady who has £500,000 to find a country property back in her home county. During her time there, Margherita hits the production line at an organic farm which specialises in seasonal fruit-and-veg boxes.
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Jules Hudson heads to Snowdonia with buyer who wants to downsize and move closer to relatives. For a £350,000 budget, she's after a new house as well as a new business and has brought her son along to help. Away from the house hunt, Jules joins one man and his dog to learn about shepherding in the region's protected landscape.
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Sonali Shah is on a mission to help find a country home for £300,000 in the East Midlands for an eager buyer who has brought along her neighbour for support. While in the region, Sonali pays a visit to an Edwardian house in Worksop, now managed by the National Trust, and steps back in time to learn about everyday life and work in the East Midlands during that era.
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Jonnie Irwin helps a house-hunting couple with a £750,000 budget break away from their London suburb and find a rural family home in North Yorkshire. While in the area, Jonnie learns how to make a traditional wooden walking stick from a craftsman based in the heart of the Yorkshire Moors.
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Alistair Appleton helps a house-hunting couple find a country home with their £700,000 budget and get back to nature in Buckinghamshire. While in the area, Alistair visits an entrepreneurial snail farm which produces high-end snail caviar, where he samples this unusual gastronomic delicacy.
Jules Hudson is helping a self-confessed city-lover to break free from the big smoke and find some countryside calm where she can raise her young son. With a budget of £850,000, Gloucestershire is the chosen location, and her little sister is coming along for support.
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Jules Hudson is on a house-hunting mission in south Worcestershire with a young couple who have just got engaged and are looking for their first joint house purchase with a budget of £300,000.
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Margherita Taylor helps a couple who have £500,000 to make a much-yearned-for leap to a country life on the Welsh borders.
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Nicki Chapman helps a married house-hunting couple who have a £500,000 budget to buy a slice of romance for their retirement years in the Dorset countryside.
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Nicki Chapman heads to Cornwall on a property search with a couple who have £750,000 to realise their dream of starting their married life together near the Cornish coast.
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With a budget of £475,000, Alistair Appleton is helping a couple and their young sons to quit London and make a new life and home in Derbyshire.
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Nicki Chapman is on a property-hunting mission in Dorset with a young couple from Surrey who are seeking a rural home for their £350,000 budget.
2017 · 50 episodes · Last episode: 8 years ago
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Jules Hudson is in the Herefordshire countryside with a house-hunting couple who have a £600,000 budget to buy a family property and a lifestyle dream which they quickly start to re-evaluate on their journey. While in the county, Jules also visits a potato farm which has been in the same family for over 90 years, and he sees how business is booming in the mechanised age of 21st-century farming.
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Margherita Taylor travels through the countryside of the East Midlands with a couple who want to invest their £650,000 budget in a character property which has space for their young family and gives them a balance between leading 'the good life' and nearby train connections back to London for work. Along the way, Margherita visits a Leicestershire dairy farm, where a husband-and-wife duo have diversified and revived a 300-year-old recipe for the region's most famous cheese, red leicester, making them the only producers of Leicester cheese made with unpasteurised milk in the county.
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Nicki Chapman is on a house-hunting mission in rural Worcestershire with a couple who want their £475,000 pounds to buy them a characterful family home that delivers 'wow factor' and the potential to work from home. Nicki has picked a perfect time to be in the county, as she gets to see how harvesting fields of delphiniums to make flower confetti is both a blooming business and a riot of colour on one historic family farm.
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Jules Hudson is country property shopping in Hampshire with a buyer who has an £875,000 budget and a firm wish to return to her family roots, which is why she has brought her cousin along for support. Away from their garden-focused house hunt, Jules visits Mottisfont Abbey and is treated to a tour of the historic rose garden, home to a collection of over 700 different varieties, some of which are rare and centuries old.
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Margherita Taylor is helping an outgoing couple who hope their £400,000 budget will fund their escape to the wide, open space of south Wales - and also house their huge collection of superhero memorabilia. While in the region, Margherita heads to the Gower Peninsula and walks the marshland around the Burry Estuary with a sheep farmer whose family looks after their enormous flock in this challenging tidal landscape, producing lamb with a very unique provenance in the process.
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Nicki Chapman is helping a couple with a £400,000 budget fulfil their dream of escaping to the Norfolk countryside and find a home where top priorities are a large kitchen and space for them to keep rescue animals. While in the county, Nicki visits the National Collection of Lavender at Caley Mill, home to over a hundred different lavender varieties, where she takes in the spectacular sight of the fields in full bloom.
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Jules Hudson takes the reins of a rural property search in Gloucestershire with a horse-loving husband and wife who have a £1.2 million budget and a desire to upscale their country lifestyle. Along the way, Jules visits the Cotswold herb garden of Davina Wynne-Jones, daughter of late renowned garden designer Rosemary Verey, from whom the Prince of Wales sought advice for his gardens at Highgrove.
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Margherita Taylor heads to rural Lincolnshire with a decisive mother and son-in-law to help them find a comfortable country property for £650,000 to house three generations of their family, as well as providing a home for their much-loved horses. While the search gathers pace, Margherita takes in the splendour of Grimsthorpe Castle, the last stately home built by the famous early 18th-century country house architect Sir John Vanbrugh.
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Jules Hudson is on a homecoming house hunt in the Shropshire countryside as he helps an active couple return to their roots and, with their £350,000 budget, find a property that gives them the great outdoors on their doorstep.
E61
Sonali Shah is in the Warwickshire countryside helping a couple with a £750,000 budget find their ideal home, where an open-plan interior and a generous garden are top priorities.
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Sonali Shah is in Cornwall to help a couple with a lust for life and a love of the coast find a home in the Cornish countryside on a £350,000 budget. Away from her very positive property hunters, Sonali heads to Tintagel Island, where exciting archaeological evidence suggests that this peninsula is not just a site of Arthurian legend but was also one of the largest trading posts in Europe.
E59
Jonnie Irwin helps a couple from County Durham who want to border-hop to the North Yorkshire countryside with their £600,000 budget and buy a spacious country home with land to accommodate rescue donkeys.
E58
Sonali Shah heads to the Norfolk countryside with a couple planning to buy their first home together, who have high hopes that their £375,000 budget will afford them a character property close to the coast where they can enjoy semi-retirement. Away from the search, Sonali scales the heights of Happisburgh lighthouse and discovers the illuminating past and inner workings of East Anglia's oldest working lighthouse.
E57
Jonnie Irwin comes to the house-hunting aid of a dynamic couple with a generous £1.1 million budget and grand ambitions of finding a country property in north Devon with holiday lets, outbuildings for their hobbies and acreage for alpacas. Along the way, Jonnie rides the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway, a Victorian feat of engineering and the longest funicular railway in the UK.
E56
Sonali Shah is on a property-finding mission in North Wales with a mother who has a £295,000 budget and a goal to move close to her daughter, who has already made her escape to the area. Away from the house hunt, Sonali heads to Blaenau Ffestiniog and rides the zip line, one of the highpoints of adventure tourism which is making its mark in this former slate mining area.
E55
Nicki Chapman is rural property hunting in West Yorkshire with an enthusiastic house-buying couple who have a £550,000 budget and a wish to be close to a vibrant community, since this is new territory for one of them. Away from the search Nicki visits the former home of the Bronte sisters in Haworth and learns more about their early years together and how it inspired their novels.
E54
Jules Hudson is in East Devon helping a house buyer who hopes her £300,000 budget will buy her a life close to the coast and has brought along her good friend for support. Along the way, Jules drops in on the Axminster Cherry Fayre a long-lost annual tradition which has recently been revived by the local community.
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Alistair Appleton is in the Cornish countryside house hunting with a couple planning an escape from the busy suburbs of Surrey, hoping to move their family of five to rural Cornwall on a £350,000 budget. Alistair also heads to West Cornwall's rugged coast and courageously joins a team of passionate seaweed collectors to dive and harvest this edible, sustainable superfood.
E52
Nicki Chapman is in rural Gloucestershire to help an intrepid aunt and niece find a country home. With a budget of £600,000, they are looking for a house for two generations that can also furnish them with an income. Along the way, Nicki heads to Owlpen Manor, hearing the story of how this Cotswold Tudor building was rescued from its 'sleeping beauty' state after 100 years of disrepair, and restored by the family who now call it home.
E51
Jules Hudson helps a retired couple who have decided to escape town life after over 40 years in the same property and, with their £450,000 budget, buy a rural retreat in west Wales with space for their ponies.While in Pembrokeshire, Jules visits Lammas, Britain's first eco-village, and admires the impressive results of families who have self-built their homes and are pioneering a sustainable life in the country.
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Ginny Buckley heads to rural Lincolnshire to help a couple with a £500,000 budget find a country home that they feel a strong connection with. Away from the search, Ginny visits Lincoln Cathedral, which has stood for nearly one thousand years, and discovers the huge scale behind the conservation plans to safeguard its long-term future.
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Alistair Appleton is in rural Shropshire with a couple who hope their £500,000 budget will buy them a shorter commute to work and more quality time together to enjoy the outdoors. Alistair meets Sam Gray, a passionate smallholder, who rears her rare breed pigs ethically and balances the business of farming with raising her young family.
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Sonali Shah is on a house-hunting mission in the Forest of Dean helping a couple with a £500,000 budget find a perfect country home that meets their specific demands for the garden. While in the area, Sonali visits Ragmans Lane Farm and discovers how market gardening produces not just organic food, but is also a financial leg-up for small-scale veg growers trying to break into the farming industry.
Jonnie Irwin is property hunting in Argyll and Bute with a couple from Ayr who want to invest their £350,000 budget in a property with priceless countryside views. While in the region, Jonnie heads to the shores of Loch Fyne and visits Inveraray Castle, one of Scotland's finest stately homes and ancestral seat of the Dukes of Argyll for the past 300 years.
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Jules Hudson is tasked with helping a couple who have a £500,000 budget and a dream of leaving their city life in Bristol behind them and finding their perfect country home in Monmouthshire. While in the county, keen archaeologist Jules visits the village of Trellech, where local excavation efforts are unearthing what could be the largest medieval settlement in Wales.
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Nicki Chapman is rural property shopping in the Scottish Borders with a couple who want to invest their £850,000 budget in returning to the UK after 20 years of city life in Brussels. Nicki also heads to the Borders town of Innerleithen and visits Robert Smail's Printing Works, which brings to life the age of Victorian letterpress printing.
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Sonali Shah is property-shopping in south Wales with a couple who have a £230,000 budget to move out of Newport and buy their first home so they can raise their young family in the countryside. As the property search gathers pace, Sonali heads to the banks of the River Usk in Newport and learns about the incredible discovery and restoration of a 15th-century ship, a project which now is of international importance.
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Jonnie Irwin is on a high-energy house-hunt in the Norfolk countryside helping a couple quit their urban life in London and find a character family home with their £400,000 budget. Away from search, Jonnie meets a record-breaking carriage driver whose passengers have included royalty. Under his supervision, Jonnie takes to the reins to try his hand at mastering some carriage-driving skills.
E42
Jules Hudson is in rural Devon with an ambitious couple looking for a large country home and as much acreage as their £1.25 million budget will afford them. While in the area, Jules heads to the banks of the River Otter to find out why beavers have made a surprise reappearance there, having been extinct in the UK for the past five hundred years.
Jonnie Irwin is on an emotional house-hunting journey in Shropshire with a retired civil servant couple who have £450,000 to invest in their dream country home. Along the way, Jonnie heads to Ironbridge Gorge and visits the Coalport China Museum, the historic home of the famous factory which produced beautiful bone china until the 1920s.
Ginny Buckley heads to North Yorkshire with an intrepid couple who want to escape the city and spend their £800,000 budget on a country property with impressive views and an income potential that will help fund their new lifestyle. Ginny visits the village of Malham where a passionate female blacksmith has forged a place for herself in the county's blacksmithing heritage.
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Nicki Chapman is country property-shopping in Somerset with a couple who have already sold up and are desperate to invest £425,000 in their perfect rural retreat after months of staying with friends.
E38
Alistair Appleton is on a house-hunting mission in the Northumberland countryside with a dynamic couple who are looking for a character stone property with holiday let potential for their £475,000 budget.
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Jonnie Irwin is on the Jurassic Coast helping a creative couple with a £805,000 budget escape their high-pressure jobs and buy a country home from where they can run a luxury camping business.
Sonali Shah is house-hunting in the Norfolk countryside with a couple who want their £440,000 budget to buy them a character country property close to the Broads so they can enjoy more time on their boat.
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Nicki Chapman is on a house-hunting mission in the Kent countryside with a strong-minded couple who have a £900,000 budget and completely different views on the style of the large family home they want to buy.
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Jules Hudson is in the Dorset countryside to help a couple make the move from Queensland, Australia. With a budget of £450,000 they look forward to enjoying village life in cooler climes. Jules also visits Tout Quarry on the Isle of Portland, now home to a unique sculpture park celebrating the heritage of Portland stone which was used for many of London's historic buildings.
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Nicki Chapman heads to Northern Ireland with a husband and wife who have £500,000 to find a large family home where they can also keep animals and welcome paying guests. Away from the house hunt, Nicki immerses herself in the country's maritime history at the dry dock where RMS Titanic was built.
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Margherita Taylor heads to the Cotswolds with a house-hunting couple who have a £550,000 budget and a dream of swapping coastal life in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, for views of rolling countryside.
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Alistair Appleton helps a couple find a more relaxing way of life in the North Yorkshire countryside with a £400,000 budget. While in the area, Alistair attempts an adrenalin-fuelled adventure traversing How Stean Gorge on a course of high wire cables.
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In the New Forest, Alistair Appleton helps a recently retired couple with a £1million budget and a passion for beekeeping leave suburban life behind to buy a country home close to family. While in the area,Alistair meets one of the specially appointed Crown Keepers, who help manage the 10,000 acres of protected forest here along with herds of fallow deer, which Alistair is lucky enough to see.
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Jonnie Irwin is in rural Pembrokeshire house hunting with an ambitious couple who have £650,000 to buy not only their first proper home together, but also accommodation for holidaymakers and a horse. Whilst in the area, Jonnie visits Cardigan and meets a pioneering denim jean producer whose high-calibre clothing has made great strides in recreating local jobs as well as keeping alive the denim manufacturing heritage of this area.
E28
Jules Hudson is on a house-hunting mission in the Somerset countryside with a keen gardening couple who have £700,000 pounds and high hopes of enjoying the county's mild climate.Away from the property search, Jules meets Sally Tuffin, a former London fashion designer turned ceramics artist, and sees how her creative work is inspired by her rural Somerset surroundings.
E27
Nicki Chapman takes to the road in Wiltshire with a couple of motorbike enthusiasts who, with their £650,000 budget, want to find a home that gives them the perfect balance of community and country life. Whilst in the county, Nicki discovers more about out how conservation efforts to plant hedgerow 'corridors' are creating a safe haven for the UK's endangered tree sparrow population.
E26
Jonnie Irwin is tasked with a property-searching mission in the Forest of Dean, helping a house-hunting couple with a £475,000 budget find a home to accommodate three generations of their family.
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Alistair Appleton is on a country property hunt in Cumbria with a triathlete couple armed with £400,000. They need a family home for them and their three children before the new school term starts. While in the area, Alistair also visits Stott Park Bobbin Mill, the last working example in the UK, and learns the important role it played supplying a quarter of a million bobbins every week to the Victorian cotton mills of Lancashire.
Nicki Chapman is in the Somerset countryside helping a house-hunting couple with £475,000 to return to their roots and recreate the outdoor lifestyle that they grew up with for their own young children.
Margherita Taylor is on an important house-hunting mission with an intrepid house buyer who has a £340,000 budget and is keen to make the lifestyle leap to the countryside around the Devon/Dorset border that she and her late husband always dreamed of.
Alistair Appleton is in Kent helping a dynamic international couple with a £1 million pound budget branch out from city life in London, so they can raise their young family in the countryside.
Nicki Chapman is rural property shopping in the Peak District with a couple who have a £500,000 pound budget to buy their first home together.
2018 · 50 episodes · Last episode: 6 years ago
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Jules Hudson is country property shopping in Dorset, helping a couple with £475,000 find a rural property that offers a workshop and space to keep hens. Jules also delves in the county's glovemaking heritage and produces his own bespoke pair in the safe hands of a fourth-generation local glovemaker.
E69
Jonnie Irwin’s house searching mission is with a couple of creative Californians keen to make a lifestyle leap to the Welsh borders with their £500,000 budget. Away from a hunt full of property style surprises, Jonnie goes llama trekking in Herefordshire’s Golden Valley and sees how llamas are living very happily in the UK countryside.
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Sonali Shah is on a house hunt with a deadline in Aberdeenshire, as her Anglo-Icelandic house buyers need to relocate from Reykjavik to the Scottish countryside on their £380,000 budget before their daughter starts university in the region. Sonali also meets a family whose veganic farm produce has grown into a successful local box scheme, highlighting the increasing demand for vegan-friendly food in the UK.
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Jules Hudson is in Herefordshire on a mission to help a self-confessed workaholic osteopath with a £450,000 budget find a country retreat that gives her peace and inspiration to write and relax. While the house hunt hots up, Jules also visits an archaeological dig at Dorstone Hill, which has broken new ground in what is known about how our Neolithic ancestors lived.
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Today’s house hunt takes Ginny Buckley to Suffolk with a couple who have £640,000 to quit north London and buy their first property together. Along the way Ginny meets a goat farmer who made his very own escape from the city to the Stour valley and is reaping the rewards from looking after the herd and his new lifestyle.
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Jonnie Irwin is in Dorset helping a retired doctor and her husband who are selling up their Surrey family home. They have an £800,000 budget to spend on a spacious country property where they can enjoy their respective hobbies. Jonnie also heads out into the waters of West Bay to see how a conservation scheme is helping protect healthy levels of marine life and the livelihoods of local fishermen.
E64
Sonali Shah is on a house-hunting mission in Cornwall with a buyer who has £260,000 and a deadline to find a character country home before her new job starts in Truro. Sonali also heads to the coast to discover how a group of surfers and divers are campaigning to clean up the oceans by turning plastic waste on Cornwall’s beaches into a new reusable material.
E63
Jules Hudson is rural property hunting in Norfolk with a couple of retired accountants who want to invest their £550,000 budget in a character home that gives them countryside and community on their doorstep. Along the way, Jules discovers how boat building is going strong in Wells-next-the-Sea before trying his hand at sailing a traditional yacht off the Norfolk coast.
E62
Today's house hunt takes Nicki Chapman to the Devon countryside with a £450,000 budget, as she helps a buyer moving on to a new, happier life chapter with her young son. Away from important property decisions, Nicki heads to the seaside town of Dawlish, where she joins in the local fun at the carnival that the community works hard to organise every year.
E61
Jonnie Irwin is on a house hunting expedition in north Wales with a couple who have a £300,000 budget and a wish list including a craft room and community close by. Jonnie also can’t resist trying out Snowdonia’s latest outdoor activity, catching a wave at the world’s first artificial surf lagoon.
E60
Alistair Appleton is on the isle of Anglesey with a pair of animal lovers who have a £475,000 budget to find a rural home with business potential for them and room for their six dogs. Whilst on the island, Alistair also learns about the importance of preserving the region's ancient woodland, before taking an adrenaline-fuelled ride on an alpine toboggan.
E59
Nicki Chapman has the tough, but rewarding task of finding the perfect country home for a house hunter and his wife who have a £450 000 budget to escape suburban Surrey and the home he has lived in for more than 60 years. The house hunt may come up roses in more ways than one as Nicki also gets to grips with all things horticultural when she’s invited to an exquisite garden for tea, cake and a spot of pruning just before its grand open day.
E58
Ginny Buckley is in Somerset helping a couple with a £310,000 budget find a country home where character charm and a practical utility room are top of the wish list. Along the way, Ginny heads into the Somerset Levels to see how bird wildlife efforts have brought the endangered crane back from near extinction.
E57
Sonali Shah is in Shropshire with a garlic specialist and his Russian wife, who want to establish a new business that taps into the county’s thriving food scene, but not before securing their dream family home in the country on a £550,000 budget. While in the county, Sonali gets in tune with the region’s melodic heritage when she learns about the expert craft of harp-making.
E56
Alistair Appleton is in rural Somerset with a couple of family-focused sport enthusiasts, who have a £1 million budget with which to buy a country home with views and a garden for football. While in the county, Alistair also learns the endangered craft of handmaking paper and sees how it’s been championed by the same family for four generations.
Today, Margherita Taylor is in Suffolk with a house hunter who has his best mate in tow on his quest to find a low-maintenance rural home with a great garden for wildlife, on a £490,000 budget. Margherita also turns her attention to the county’s maritime heritage when she gets hands-on with traditional skills and techniques at Suffolk’s International Boatbuilding Training College.
E54
Ginny Buckley is experiencing the breathtaking natural beauty of Perthshire while on a house-hunting expedition with a couple heading back to their roots with a £450 000 budget. In an area known as big tree country, Ginny also gets up close and personal with some of the region’s ‘champions’ - the tallest, widest and oldest trees in the UK.
Nicki Chapman is on a house-hunting mission in the West Sussex countryside with a couple who are looking to sell up in London and use their £1.6 million budget to invest in a period property that is also the right fit for their toddler. Nicki also tries her hand at the rare art of fore-edge painting, and adds her own creative mark to some books under the watchful eye of award-winning craftsman Martin Frost.
E52
Jonnie Irwin makes his way to Lincolnshire to assist a pair of expats who have a £300 000 budget to make the big return home after 11 years living abroad in Cyprus. Whilst in one of the country's largest agricultural counties, Jonnie also pays a visit to a land-based college to find out about the changing face of farming practices with the next generation of farmers.
Ginny Buckley is helping a couple to make a new start in the Cornish countryside. For their £550,000 budget they want a character property with plenty of room inside for their family to stay, plus space outside for their beloved dogs. Ginny's time in Cornwall coincides with the preparations for an annual steam fair extravaganza, where she gets behind the wheel of a magnificent vintage engine.
E50
Nicki Chapman is on an emotional house hunt, helping a couple fulfill a long-held dream of moving to the Scottish countryside of Ayrshire. Alongside a selection of the region's best properties that a budget of £450,000 can buy, Nicki also pays a visit to the 18th-century Dumfries House, home to one of the finest collections of furniture in the world.
Margherita Taylor is in Somerset with a couple on their maiden house hunt together. Whilst in the county, Margherita visits a cottage that Samuel Taylor Coleridge once called home.
E48
Jules Hudson is in Suffolk on a grand property search with a couple hot-footing it from the other side of the world to set down roots in the British countryside for their £900,000 budget. While in the county, Jules meets a dynamic dairy farming family whose customers are queuing up to buy their fresh milk straight from the farm's vending machine.
E47
Nicki Chapman is in Devon with a professional singer who has a £670,000 budget to buy a country home that hits the right note.
Sonali Shah is in the Essex countryside helping a church minister and his wife to make their very first house purchase with their £425,000 budget. Away from property, Sonali discovers how conservation and engineering have partnered to create a landmark coastal nature reserve.
Margherita Taylor is on a property romp around rural Shropshire helping her house hunters with £425,000 to find a country home which they’ll hopefully fall in love with and buy.
Jonnie Irwin is in rural Herefordshire with a fun-loving couple who want to escape life under the Stansted flight path and invest their £600,000 in a country home that has space for a beloved car and a large coffee table.
Alistair Appleton takes up the reins on a property search in the Norfolk countryside with a young animal loving couple who have a budget of £750,000 to find an equestrian home that provides them with income potential.
E42
Nicki Chapman is on an emotionally charged property search in rural Somerset, helping a couple invest their £500,000 budget in a home that strikes the right balance between country charm and practical open plan. Nicki also visits Barley Wood, a beautiful walled kitchen garden resurrected by chef brothers who use what they grow in their inventive dishes.
E41
Sonali Shah delves into the depths of the Dorset countryside on a mission to find a rural retreat for a couple who have a £750 000 budget with which to buy a home, a holiday let and land.
E40
Nicki Chapman heads to rural Hampshire to help a couple with £700,000 in their pocket find a permanent country home where they can finally kick back and relax after a life of relocating because of work.
E39
Jonnie Irwin is on property hunting mission with a couple who have a £750,000 budget to make a move from the Essex coast to the Suffolk countryside. Aside from houses, Jonnie ventures into fields of golden rapeseed to find out how the oil of this humble plant has fast become a store cupboard staple.
E38
Jules Hudson travels to the Leicestershire countryside to help a couple with a £750,000 budget find a rural home close to their family. Whilst exploring the county’s bricks and mortar, Jules pays a visit to a beautiful arts and crafts cottage preserved as a time capsule from a bygone era.
E37
Alistair Appleton is in Dorset with a pair of teachers who have a £550,000 budget to find a country home where they can raise their young daughters. Away from houses, Alistair visits a family of entrepreneurial dairy farmers who produce a unique alcoholic spirit made entirely from milk.
Nicki Chapman is on a house-hunting mission in the Shropshire countryside, balancing the dreams of a father who has a £475,000 budget and wants to head for the hills, while his daughter wants him to live closer to a community.
E35
On today’s country relocation in Pembrokeshire, Alistair Appleton is helping a couple with a £325k budget to find a rural home for their retirement. Whilst in Wales, Alistair also visits an upland farm to discover the challenges and advantages of rearing native South Wales Mountain sheep.
Jonnie Irwin is in rural Norfolk, helping a couple who have an £800k budget to buy their very first property together. Along the way, Jonnie takes a ride on a narrow gauge steam train when he meets the enthusiasts keeping the Bure Valley Railway on track.
E33
Jules Hudson meets a couple with a generous budget of £700,000 who want not just to buy a sanctuary in the Lancashire countryside for themselves, but also invest in enough land to home some much-wanted donkeys.
E32
Alistair Appleton is helping a couple with a £400,000 budget escape to the Shropshire countryside in a bid to improve their young daughter’s quality of life and reconnect with family roots.
Nicki Chapman is in East Devon helping an outdoors-loving couple armed with £850,000 who are ready to leave their hectic life in St Albans behind them and buy a rural family home within reach of the coast before their son starts school.
E30
Alistair Appleton accompanies a couple on a North Yorkshire house hunt. They are calling time on running a guest house in the city and have a £650 000 budget to find a rural family home with business potential.
Jonnie Irwin is in Gloucestershire to help a green-fingered couple armed with an £800,000 budget find their perfect retreat with plenty of space to enjoy their hobbies.
E28
Sonali Shah is tasked with helping a jet-setting couple who want to stop living out of a suitcase and have a £700,000 budget to find a rural home in Cambridgeshire for their growing family.
E27
Jules Hudson crosses the Solent to property shop on the Isle of Wight with a couple who have a £750 000 budget to find their dream island home with holiday-let potential. During his journey, Jules gets an intimate glimpse into 19th-century royal life when he visits Osbourne House, one of Queen Victoria's favourite homes.
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Jonnie Irwin is in the county of Shropshire in search of a country home for a pair of free spirits who have a £300,000 budget with which to finally lay down some roots. Jonnie also gets in the saddle on a ride through the Shropshire hills with a bespoke bike builder.
Jules Hudson is on a forensic house hunt in rural Gloucestershire with a retired detective and his wife who want their £500,000 budget to furnish them with a charming Cotswold home.
E24
Alistair Appleton is on a property-searching mission in the Devon countryside, helping a mother and daughter duo with £750,0000 find a home for three generations of their family and an eco-camping business.
E23
Jules Hudson heads to the Isle of Arran to house-hunt with a novelist and her husband who are in search of writing inspiration from the Scottish wilderness for their £375,000 budget. Along the way, Jules discovers the positive benefits to Arran’s marine habitats and the local fishing industry since Scotland’s first ‘No Take Zone’ was introduced.
Sonali Shah in on the search for a rural home in the Derbyshire Peak District with a couple of soon-to-be retirees who have a budget of £500,000, and for whom a pond is a high priority.
E21
Jonnie Irwin goes house hunting with couple who have a healthy £900,000 budget and want to start a new life closer to loved ones in the Worcestershire countryside. Jonnie also visits brine springs at Droitwich Spa to meet a family breathing new life into the region's salt heritage for the first time in a century.
2020 · 25 episodes · Last episode: 6 years ago
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Jules Hudson helps a vivacious mother and daughter double act hunt for a country home in Norfolk with a budget of £335,000 budget. There are tears plus lots of laughter as they tour a selection of beautiful East Anglian properties. Away from the house hunt, Jules follows a paper trail to uncover an endangered decorative heritage craft.
E24
Alistair Appleton guides a couple who want to switch their lives from the bustle of Bristol to the fresh country air of the Wye Valley on a budget of £300,000. While exploring the River Wye, Alistair also discovers the slippery challenges of sustainably sourcing and restocking the European eel.
E23
Ginny Buckley meets a couple hoping to swap the busy city of Oxford for the peaceful Sussex coast on a budget of £600,000. Making the most of her time in the South Downs area, Ginny also gets kitted out in protective gear when she gets stuck in with a conservation project to protect nature’s most productive workers.
E22
Alistair Appleton joins forces with a spiritual businesswoman and her best friend to help find a calming Hampshire home on a budget of £950,000. Taking a breather from the property search, Alistair takes a very deep breath when he experiences the giddy heights of Portsmouth’s Spinnaker Tower.
E21
Sonali Shah helps a couple from a Surrey town who want to escape to the Welsh Borders for a quieter pace of life. They are hoping to use their £620,000 budget to purchase a characterful country home. Away from the property search, Sonali visits the Slimbridge Wetland Centre in Gloucestershire and goes behind the scenes with the conservation team preserving Britain’s natural wetlands and its wildlife.
E20
Today’s house-hunting couple are looking to relocate to the Somerset countryside. They have a budget of £700,000 to find a rural home for their young family with enough land for animals and a glamping site. Away from the house hunt, presenter Alistair Appleton gets stuck in to some cheddar cheesemaking, in the county where it originated!
E19
Jules Hudson joins a couple with a budget of £400,000 in their search for the perfect retirement retreat in the Cornish countryside. Taking some time out from house-hunting, Jules visits the National Lobster Hatchery to lend a hand to their conservation work.
E18
Alistair Appleton leads a couple with a budget of £320,000 in their search for a countryside home on the Staffordshire-Derbyshire border. Alistair also puts his tailoring skills to the test when he visits the factory of heritage knitwear brand John Smedley.
E17
Ginny Buckley meets a couple who are looking to lay down roots in Devon after decades serving in the army. They have a £400,000 budget to find their ideal home near the English Riviera. Away from the property hunt, Ginny capitalises on being in Devon at the same time as the County Show to find out what it takes to win Pig of the Year.
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A south London couple have high hopes of escaping the rat race and finding their dream home in the High Weald with the help of Alistair Appleton. The pair have a hearty budget of £1.1 million to find a property suitable for multiple generations of the family. Alistair also discovers an exotic side to the region when he visits a wildlife reserve in the Kent countryside.
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Jules Hudson brings his enthusiasm and rural property expertise to the North Wessex Downs as he helps a couple who have £775,000 to find a characterful country house. Whilst in the area, Jules also pays a visit to Highclere Castle to learn about the fascinating foreign finds within the walls of the impressive Wiltshire home.
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Sonali Shah scours Hampshire's property market to find somewhere for a couple who are temporarily relying on the goodwill of family. They have a £600,000 budget and want a country home close to the coast. Sticking with a maritime theme, Sonali also gets behind the scenes at the Mary Rose Museum with the treasures uncovered when King Henry VIII's warship was raised after four centuries on the seabed.
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Jules Hudson joins a couple who hope to realise their dream of escaping to Devon. They have a generous budget of £1.4 million, and hope to find a property with land, a self-contained annex and lots of room for guests. Away from country homes, Jules visits a sustainable family farm producing food in harmony with nature.
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It's the call of home that’s luring today’s couple to head to the beautiful landscape of south Yorkshire, and Alistair Appleton is supporting them on their house hunt. With a £450,000 budget, they want a home with enough room to welcome family and future grandchildren. Aside from property, Alistair meets a national sled dog champion and takes the reins on a high-octane race through the Yorkshire woodland.
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Jules Hudson is on a mission to find the ideal Cambridgeshire home for a young couple with a £570,000 budget who want to escape suburban Kent. Keen to explore more of the country’s wildlife, Jules also visits the Fens and finds out about the UK’s first nature reserves.
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Today's property hunters are preparing for a triumphant homecoming after a quarter of a century living in Sweden. Nicki Chapman will be leading the pair in their search for a perfect rural Wiltshire home for their £450,000 budget. Away from the house hunt, Nicki takes the reigns on a ride with a professional carriage driver.
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Margherita Taylor helps a retired couple escape to the tranquillity of Norfolk after 30 years in a busy Essex town. Now that their children have flown the nest, the pair are hoping to find a country home that’s full of character for their £350,000 budget. Elsewhere, Margherita discovers Norfolk’s answer to the Great Barrier Reef.
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Alistair Appleton helps recent newlyweds to quit London in search of a perfect country home. They have a budget of £1.5 million and have chosen Surrey as the location for their future family life. Taking time out of the property hunt, Alistair stops by the British Wildlife Centre, where he learns about the ongoing conservation work to protect the country’s most important native species.
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On today’s house hunt Jonnie Irwin is helping a pair of teachers with a £600,000 budget who want to upsize and find the ideal country home for them and their four young children. Away from property, Jonnie turns the heat up on his Lancastrian tour when he visits one of the last working forges in the county.
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Jules Hudson is house hunting in Somerset with a couple who have a £675,000 budget to find a rural home that must have annexe potential for their parents. During his time in the county, Jules visits the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm Museum where he gets up close and personal with an ambitious project to rebuild a Second World War aircraft using reclaimed parts.
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Jules Hudson heads to south Wales with a husband and wife who, after three decades of military housing, are looking for their very own country home and have a budget of £430,000 to spend. Away from the property search, Jules dons his own army fatigues to discover how the beautiful Welsh wilderness prepares soldiers for battle.
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Jonnie Irwin is on a property hunting mission in Oxfordshire with a young couple who are both medical professionals and have a fantastic £1.5 million budget to find a country home for their growing family. Away from potential houses, Jonnie braves the Oxfordshire waters during an exhilarating attempt at punt racing.
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Alistair Appleton helps a couple from Worcestershire find the perfect home in Cornwall for their £650k budget. Away from the property hunt, Alistair also discovers a pioneering project that prescribes the therapeutic benefits of nature to improve well-being.
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Sonali Shah welcomes back two returning expats after 20 years living abroad in America. They have a healthy £950k budget for a spacious country home in Hampshire’s New Forest, near to their children’s new school. What’s more, Sonali’s visit to the county is ideally timed to get behind the scenes during the preparations for a hugely popular traditional country show.
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Jules Hudson meets a calligrapher from east London who wants to write a new chapter of her life in the West Country. Away from the property hunt, Jules also gets in tune with the region’s nautical traditions and attends a sea shanty festival on the southern coast.
2020 · 50 episodes · Last episode: 5 years ago
This series saw wheelchair rugby player Steve Brown join the presenting team and the last appearance by Margherita Taylor.
Escape to the Country Series 21 release dates →The bluebells are out in Devon as Sonali Shah helps a young couple search for a new home with enough land to start a glamping business. Along with the properties, they check out a lovely shepherd's hut and a luxury treehouse. Sonali also visits a farm that grows a number of delicious lettuce varieties without using soil.
Jules Hudson is in Cheshire, helping a couple from Liverpool find an open-plan, three-bedroom house. Jules also meets a pampered pooch as well as local legend and internet sensation Jackie Weaver. It's also wild garlic picking season, so there are some tasty, garlicky treats on offer too.
Cambridgeshire keeps Nicki Chapman and a couple from London busy visiting a bespoke garden office, a co-housing development and a local florist, in between searching for a new house to entertain in. The young buyers are hopeful their budget of £850,000 will buy them a three-bedroom property with his and hers workspaces.
In Dumfries and Galloway, Steve Brown helps a house buyer from the Lake District to find a home for her, her husband, their cat and not one but twelve motorcycles. The budget? £350,000 for a detached, rural home with at least a double garage. Whilst there, Steve crashes a wedding and discovers why Gretna Green is the wedding capital of the country.
Alistair Appleton gets a lesson in feng shui from today’s buyer who is looking to move from Greater London to a country cottage in the picturesque Cotswolds. Alistair also meets a group of artists drawing inspiration from the magnificent trees at Westonbirt Arboretum.
Jules Hudson joins a couple from Cambridgeshire for a packed few days in west Wales, skimming stones, learning Welsh and meeting a chef from France who loves to whip up tasty dishes using locally made mead. Jules even has time to help the couple look for a three-bedroom home with a holiday let or annexe and an acre of land, all for a budget of £425,000.
With ambitions to start a cookery school in Shropshire, a couple from Hertfordshire get a helping hand from Nicki Chapman to spend £900,000 on a new home for their new life in the country. Getting to know the area and local producers, they all visit a small farm which supplies veggies to local restaurants and cafes.
Travelling through the counties of Wiltshire and Somerset, Jonnie Irwin helps a pair of early retirees spend their whopping £1.3million budget on an impressive home in the countryside. They are after a characterful and spacious period property with at least four bedrooms and separate studies, but the most vital feature turns out to be sky high ceilings!
Sonali Shah visits spectacular Scotland, making her way to Dumfries and Galloway with a married couple from London who are seeking a life-changing move. They’re hoping their £350,000 budget can buy a house for them with enough land for a retreat business. Sonali also visits an ethical dairy farm that has written a brand new rule book when it comes to animal welfare.
A retired army couple looking to escape busy Bedfordshire enlist Margherita Taylor to help them spend their house hunting budget of £680,000 in the rural wilds of Norfolk. On the wish list are three bedrooms, some land, a potential income and seclusion. Taking a break from the properties, Margherita learns about the world’s most expensive spice, saffron.
A musical couple from London need Steve Brown's help to unearth a new home in the Oxfordshire countryside. On the £950,000 shopping list is a detached property with space for a studio and good links to the capital. Away from house hunting, Steve checks out a dairy farm and samples kefir, purportedly an ancient, health giving drink made from fermented milk.
In the Cotswolds, Nicki Chapman and a couple from Scotland don't need to look too far to find the characterful cottage of their dreams for a £600,000 budget. Whist in the region, Nicki drops in on show jumping legend and double Olympic gold medalist Nick Skelton, along with his sons Harry and Dan, who are following in their father's ‘hoof' prints.
Jonnie Irwin is with a young couple wanting to escape London to build a new life in the Surrey countryside. They're hoping that their great £900,000 budget finds them a large home for their growing family that's close to good schools, with convenient links to the capital. Jonnie also gets to grips with a bat when he joins a local baseball team to try out America's national pastime, which can trace its roots back to the county.
Sonali Shah helps a married couple who, after 40 years in the same house, are upping sticks to find their ideal rural property in Somerset for a £425k budget. Away from the countryside, Sonali heads for a town high street to visit a shop that is challenging customers to think about their shopping habits in a bid to reduce packaging and food waste.
Ginny Buckley meets a couple of Londoners who have a massive £1million to spend on a detached property in the Essex countryside with lots of space for family and friends. On a break from the house tours, Ginny visits a farmer who has found that the county’s unique climate has enabled him to grow a crop usually found much further afield.
There’s an urgent need for Alistair Appleton to find today’s buyers a new home in stunning Shropshire, as they have just sold their current house in Essex. For their budget of £375,000, the couple would like a detached property with a big kitchen for baking and a large garden for growing fruit. Alistair also visits a sustainable Shropshire flower farm and attempts to design a wedding bouquet.
A couple wanting to make a new start in Devon enlist Jules Hudson’s house-hunting knowhow to find a detached, family home with a large garden for their two young children and some income potential. Whilst in the county, Jules gets stuck into some woodcraft using nothing but steam to sculpt some impressive interior design pieces.
Nicki Chapman is on hand to help an artist find a period property in Hampshire with potential for a painting studio and a garden in which to practise yoga. Away from the property hunt, Nicki visits the South Downs National Park and gets involved in a tree-planting initiative to mark the park’s tenth anniversary.
Sonali Shah showcases some superb Somerset properties to a couple who have a budget of £700,000 and want a countryside home where they can upgrade an allotment to their very own back garden veggie patch. Sonali also learns about the potentially perilous Bristol Channel and meets the volunteers who operate two life-saving rescue hovercrafts.
In his treasured home county of Herefordshire, Jules Hudson presents some fabulous, rural properties to a couple from Kent who have a budget of £700,000. Away from the houses, Jules meets two farmers who turn their potato crop into tasty crisps which are sold inside innovative compostable packets.
Returning home from South Africa, today’s buyer has a budget of £450,000 and heads west to Cornwall with Steve Brown to find a character property that has holiday let potential. Steve also pays a visit to the Newlyn Copper Works and has a bash at transforming the striking reddish metal into a delicate work of art.
A young Essex couple need Nicki Chapman’s help to find them a new home in lovely Somerset. They have £725,000 to spend on a property for their growing family, preferably one that has some income potential. Nicki also visits a local farm to sample some homemade specialities made from its crop of an ancient grain, spelt.
Jules Hudson is on home ground in the Welsh Borders as he showcases some tempting houses to a retired couple who have a whopping £1 million to spend. Along with a characterful property, they are after somewhere with holiday-let potential or space for a glamping business. Jules is also in his element when he meets experts in traditional construction methods, who are keeping heritage building skills alive.
Ginny Buckley is in Wiltshire with a young couple from London looking for a new home to house them and their 5 guinea pigs. They have £600,000 to spend and would like enough land for some more, somewhat larger animals. Whilst in the county, Ginny also goes on an inland fossil hunt before helping to transform one prehistoric piece into stylish jewellery.
Jules Hudson helps a buyer who wants to relocate herself and her dog-grooming business to Suffolk with a budget of £320,000. Jules also takes a step into the past when he meets the team behind an exciting and ambitious project to recreate an Anglo-Saxon longship, the remains of which were unearthed by an amateur archaeologist in the 1930s.
A young, canine-loving couple from Hertfordshire are hoping for a fresh start in a new High Weald home and, with their budget of £600,000, Ginny Buckley has some tempting properties to show them. Away from the houses, Ginny gets to grip picking some of the local grape harvest, before treating herself to a glass of fizz.
In the Cotswolds, Sonali Shah showcases three fabulous properties to a couple from Essex who are hoping their budget of £550,000 will buy them a new home with three bedrooms, one of which could be used as a home office. Sonali also visits a local quarry from which Cotswold stone is supplied for use in new builds and conservation projects.
In the stunning landscapes of north west Wales, Sonali Shah meets a couple from Warwickshire who have a dream of owning a property that would provide them with a home and the ability to offer holiday lets. While in the region, Sonali meets a paddle-boarding campaigner helping to rid the area of plastic pollution.
Alistair Appleton tempts a newlywed Olympian and his wife to part with up to £525,000 for one of three fabulous properties on offer in wonderful Wiltshire. Away from the house hunt, Alistair’s ball skills are challenged as he tries his hand at the little-known sport of stické tennis.
Two retired police officers with £600,000 explore the breathtaking landscapes of North Wales on a house-hunting expedition with Jules Hudson. The couple want a traditional Welsh home with at least an acre of land. Jules also tests his nerve and takes the plunge when he experiences one of the region’s many extreme water sports.
A recently retired couple looking to downsize from their Essex home head to Staffordshire with Sonali Shah hoping to find peace, pubs and a detached home with a view. Sonali also visits a celebrated Victorian pottery that is now a modern-day hub of art, design and training.
Nicki Chapman is in Norfolk with a couple from Northamptonshire who have previously lived and worked all over the world. With a whopping £1 million to spend, the globetrotting pair want a property with the wow factor and spectacular views to boot. On the beach, Nicki helps a local chef to cook a classic dish, using seasonal shellfish from the nearby coast.
The stakes are high for Jules Hudson as he helps a couple wanting to uproot from Essex to find a modest cottage in Cornwall to call their forever home. The two nurses have a budget of £340,000 for a property with character in a rural location. Jules also heads inland to inspect a plantation of trees normally found down under, and for the first time in his life, he tries an oyster!
Steve Brown showcases some tempting properties to a young couple of keen cyclists who have a budget of £600,000 to make the move from London to the beautiful countryside of North Yorkshire. Steve also meets a truly inspirational, award-winning cheese maker from Syria who’s brought a taste of home to the British countryside.
A couple from Bedfordshire with a budget of £450,000 need Ginny Buckley’s help in Norfolk to find them the first house they are buying together. They would like a character property with a good-sized garden for some new canine companions. Ginny also heads to Great Yarmouth, where she straps in for a white-knuckle ride on one of the country’s last remaining wooden rollercoasters.
Sonali Shah is in Devon, accompanying a married couple from Berkshire with an impressive budget of £1,200,000. On today’s property shopping list is a five-bedroom detached property with land where their four children can enjoy the great outdoors. Away from the house hunt, Sonali visits a farm where she discovers that flowers are not the only way to her heart. Edible flowers are too.
In England’s smallest county, Rutland, a couple from Buckinghamshire with a budget of £500,000 ask Steve Brown and the team to find them a detached property with a garden big enough for a vegetable patch. Continuing the horticultural theme, Steve visits Barnsdale Gardens to see for himself the legacy left by one of the country’s best loved gardeners, the late Geoff Hamilton.
Alistair Appleton helps a couple from Newcastle who want to turn the spectacular Lake District from a holiday destination into their permanent home. With a budget of £750,000, they are looking for a property with fabulous views and enough space for visiting family. Alistair also takes to the water when he meets a passionate boat builder who restored what is thought to be the oldest passenger ferry in the world.
With a budget of £450,000, a married couple looking to uproot from Greater Manchester seek the help of Jules Hudson to find a new family home close to the coast in glorious Dorset. Jules is in his element when he meets one of the county’s blacksmiths, who specialises in restoring relics of bygone eras using traditional techniques.
An escapee from Surrey challenges Alistair Appleton to find her the perfect property in a county and a country she's never been to before, Pembrokeshire in Wales. For a very top budget of £900,000, the wish list includes a remote period house with spectacular views. Alistair takes time away from the property search to visit a forward-thinking farm which specialises in edible insects.
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A health-conscious couple from London enlist Sonali Shah to help them spend £1.3million on a detached property in Surrey with enough land to create a wellness retreat. Taking a breather from house hunting, Sonali immerses herself in the county’s ancient woodlands as she learns about the Japanese practice of forest bathing.
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Armed with a top budget of £450,000, Jules Hudson property shops with a couple wanting to make a permanent move from Kent to the scenic East Riding of Yorkshire. They are in search of a house with space for a burgeoning catering business. Jules also heads to Bridlington, where he tests his sea legs in a traditional fishing boat unique to the area.
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Heading west from Surrey to Devon, a young couple who met as students need Nicki Chapman’s help to find them a sizeable home to fit three generations of their family, and all for a budget of £800,000. In addition, Nicki spends time on the county’s south coast, meeting a local fisherman and sampling the delicious catch of the day.
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Alistair Appleton guides a pair of budding entrepreneurs who want to escape to the Cotswolds. They have a generous £900,000 to play with, but the property must have the potential to develop a boutique country holiday let. Alistair also spends an exhilarating day at the University of Bath as he launches himself on to the UK’s only bobsleigh and skeleton push-start track.
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Nicki Chapman heads to the counties of Shropshire and Herefordshire to help a recently retired couple with a £550,000 budget find a dream country home that’s full of traditional period charm. Away from the property search, Nicki meets enthusiasts who reach for the sky when she visits the Weston Park Model Air Show.
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Ginny Buckley presents an arresting range of houses to a couple who have a substantial budget of £700,000 and are hoping to relocate their family to the wonderful Norfolk countryside. For over half a century, Norfolk has been home to Lotus cars, so whilst in the county Ginny finds out more about the company heritage before catching a glimpse of the future when their latest hypercar is unveiled.
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Jules Hudson teams up with a couple of keen horticulturalists who have £450,000 with which to find their ideal country home in the Yorkshire Dales, with the garden a top priority. Making the most of his time in Yorkshire, Jules also tests his own green fingers when he visits RHS Garden Harlow Carr for some top tips from none other than gardening guru Alan Titchmarsh.
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Ginny Buckley is house hunting with a couple who are looking to return to their Welsh homeland after twenty years of living in Oxford. The pair have a budget of £450,000 to find the right home in Carmarthenshire with enough land to accommodate visiting friends and their pooches. Elsewhere, Ginny samples a regional delicacy at Britain’s only manufacturer of pickled cockles.
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Jules Hudson is in Derbyshire with a recently married couple making an epic location shift, swapping the Blue Mountains in Australia for the wilds of the Peak District. They have a significant budget of £750,000 and have their hearts set on a character home with a large garden for their three dogs. Elsewhere, Jules comes across an unlikely centre of manufacturing nestled in the county’s rural countryside.
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Today, a young married couple are looking to escape London’s Docklands and move to the beautiful Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire. Guided by Ginny Buckley, and with a healthy budget of £850,000, they want to realise their dream of raising their family with more room inside and more green space out. The property search happens to fall in the same week as the Henley Regatta, where Ginny gets behind the scenes with rowing royalty at this famous societal sporting event.
2021 · 50 episodes · Last episode: 4 years ago
Series 22 saw the expansion of the presenting team again, with former Great British Bake Off semi-finalist Briony May Williams join alongside consumer affairs presenter Chris Bavin.
Escape to the Country Series 22 release dates →Alistair Appleton is in Hebridean heaven on Lewis and Harris, helping a couple with a £400k budget to relocate to this beautiful, rugged Scottish island. As well as exploring the island and a handful of its properties, Alistair meets a host of welcoming locals and visits a tweed mill to discover how the exclusive fabric is made.
Wanting to be close to the coast, today’s rural relocators have a £650,000 budget, and it’s Jonnie Irwin who’s on hand to help them start a new life by finding a new home in Devon. Jonnie also visits Beer, a picturesque fishing village long associated with smugglers, where he tries not to disturb the residents of the local caves.
The ladies are on tour in Somerset and Dorset today, where Briony May Williams helps a buyer from London, with her daughter in tow for support, to realise the dream of a new life in the country. Briony also visits a local kitchen to learn about the potential health benefits of fermented food whilst creating kimchi, an ancient Korean dish made using the humble cabbage.
Bedfordshire beckons today’s couple, who are looking for the peace and quiet the county has on offer. Steve Brown guides them on their house hunt, and he also visits Biggleswade to find out about an easily accessible off-road, multi-user path that circumnavigates the market town, enabling people to connect to the local countryside and its wildlife.
Somerset is the destination today, where Alistair Appleton is helping an industrious young couple from Hertfordshire who are eager to make a rural move to the county. In the home of cheddar cheese, Alistair investigates innovations to complement that dairy tradition when he visits a local producer who specialises in vegan cheese.
Chris Bavin is on hand to make the rural English dream a reality by presenting some beautiful properties to a couple returning to the UK after 20 years living abroad in Canada. They have a big budget to spend on a new home and are open to the countryside in either Worcestershire or Warwickshire.
Steve Brown faces a double challenge in his home county of Kent as he helps two sisters from London to buy a house each. With two separate budgets and different priorities, they are exploring options for rural and coastal living. Steve also meets a father and son whose family have been restoring traditional oast houses for four generations.
Having sold up his home in the large Bedfordshire town of Luton, today’s buyer has already relocated to a rental in Derbyshire, but has called on the expertise of Sonali Shah to help him source his very own property in the countryside, where he can entertain family and friends. For a real flavour of local life, they sample traditional Bakewell puddings and tarts, as well as some exotic cuisine from much further afield.
Wanting to swap their home in London for a new one in the Berkshire countryside, today’s couple have a whopping £1 million budget, and Alistair Appleton is here to help them spend it. Alistair also takes time out to visit a restaurant and theatre in an old mill on the River Thames, where he meets the actor and playwright Simon Williams.
A couple are leaving Spain for good and want to settle in the countryside of either Shropshire or Herefordshire. Steve Brown accepts the challenge to find them their new home, and also finds the time to visit a traditional rural estate to learn how diversification is helping to secure its future and support the local community.
North Yorkshire beckons to an Essex couple who need Jonnie Irwin’s help to find a home in this beautiful region. Jonnie also visits the popular seaside resort of Whitby on a mission to work out why we love fish and chips so much and to discover who makes the best in town.
Although originally from the UK, today’s couple have been living in Canada since the 1980s. Now back home, and with Ginny Buckley’s help, they are raring to find a new way of life and a new house in Dorset. Ginny also visits a farm helping to keep the elderly and retired gents fit in mind, body and soul.
Having met just 18 months ago, today’s couple are wasting no time and are selling up their homes to find a new one together, in the countryside of Cumbria or Lancashire. Briony May Williams is there to help with their property search, and whilst in the region she also visits one of the finest restaurants in the country.
A creative couple from London want to leave city life behind in search of new adventures in Gloucestershire, and Chris Bavin is on hand to guide them. Along with presenting a lovely selection of houses, Chris also visits a local football club to check out for himself why it’s green by name and green by nature.
The sun shines all week long as Alistair Appleton helps a couple to move one step closer to their dream of a new life on the gorgeous Gower Peninsula in Wales. Apart from checking out some fabulous properties, Alistair collects cockles and tries laverbread for the first time.
Returning home after seven years in Switzerland, today’s couple are expecting a baby and have called on Margherita Taylor to help them find a family home in Cambridgeshire.
Wanting to move to Dorset, just one county away from their current home, today’s couple are led by Sonali Shah to discover what the local housing market has to offer for their £550,000 budget. Sonali also helps to create sustainable beauty products made from locally foraged plants and herbs.
In the Welsh Borders, Jules Hudson is the local with the lowdown, helping a retired colonel and his wife with their property shopping requirements. Jules also meets up with a group of local ramblers to discuss the correct etiquette when walking in the great British countryside.
Who better to show a young couple with a growing family from London around Kent than local girl Nicki Chapman? Away from the house hunt, Nicki takes a trip down memory lane, meeting up with her best friend from school, before they join Nicki’s mum at the family’s beach hut in Herne Bay.
Chris Bavin and today’s couple marvel at Shropshire’s stunning countryside in between checking out some tempting homes from the county’s property market. Taking time away from the house search, Chris’s taste buds are in for a treat when he meets a local chef who uses seasonal local food, much of which he forages for himself.
The beautiful Wye Valley may not be too far from Bristol, where today’s couple are from, but it’s a whole world away in terms of lifestyle. Steve Brown has some tempting properties up his sleeve, and during some downtime all three manage to unwind and enjoy the scenery with a leisurely canoe ride on the River Wye itself.
Leafy Buckinghamshire is Sonali Shah’s destination today, where she’s helping a London couple search for their dream countryside home. Sticking to bricks and mortar, Sonali also visits the county’s last independent brick maker and finds out how to make them, but soon discovers it’s not as easy as it looks.
Jules Hudson prepares himself for a beautiful but bracing property adventure in the lowlands of Scotland as he travels around the Lothians. He’s with a buyer from Edinburgh who has a £360,000 budget to make a longed-for break from the city and has brought her aunt along for support. Amongst a diverse range of property options, Jules also tours a striking fortified 16th-century tower that has been meticulously restored back into a great Scottish house.
Alistair Appleton shows off the Cotswolds in all its glory to a couple who want a complete change of lifestyle. Moving from Edinburgh, they have a budget of over £1 million to spend on their new dream home. Alistair also visits a farm that has adopted bygone methods to grow sustainable and environmentally friendly crops.
With their current townhouse bursting at the seams, today’s couple - along with their five children and two dogs - need Ginny Buckley's help to find a large rural property. In West Yorkshire, they get the local lowdown from both Ginny and her mum Maggie. Having grown up in the area, Ginny also finds out what it is to be a proud Yorkshire person.
Suffolk is today’s destination for Steve Brown. He is joined by a couple from London who have £575,000 to spend on a new home from where they want to kick-start a new life in the countryside. Steve also meets an inspirational pair of young farmers who, despite having full-time jobs elsewhere, find time to farm 70 acres using ethical and sustainable methods.
Alistair Appleton is in his element today as he visits the spectacular Perth and Kinross countryside, on a mission to help a young couple from Edinburgh realise their dream of a new lifestyle in a rural home. Aside from property, a visit to the coast to learn about one of the world’s most advanced wind turbines leaves Alistair full of hope about the future of the UK’s renewable energy.
A dog-friendly garden is a top priority today for Nicki Chapman’s buyer in Devon, who has £350,000 to spend on a new home for her and her much-loved pet pooch. After the house tours are over, Nicki visits a charity that gives city children an opportunity to experience the muck and magic of life on a farm.
Creating a luxury holiday let business is just as important as finding a new family home for today's couple. They want to relocate to rural north Norfolk, and Jules Hudson is there to open doors for them. A familiar face also welcomes Jules aboard her fishing boat for an impromptu lesson on how to dress a crab.
Briony May Williams is on her home turf in Somerset as she helps a couple with a budget of £500k who are looking to swap their narrow boat for a more traditional house on terra firma. Briony also visits a market garden initiative that operates alongside a hostel for the homeless and rural rough sleepers.
Having spent many happy family holidays in Cornwall, a couple from Hertfordshire now want to make England’s most south-westerly county their permanent home, and Steve Brown is just the man to help them realise their dream. The trio also meet a local ceramicist and take part in an Escape to the Country pottery throwdown.
Having fallen head over heels in love with North Yorkshire, a retired teacher and her pet bunny Gary need Nicki Chapman’s help with finding a new home for £450,000, a starting point from which to fully explore this beautiful country. Sausages are on the menu too, as Nicki helps to make and then taste a vegan banger.
Three generations of one family want to move to the East Midlands, and the task of finding a new home for them all has fallen on Mum, Grandma and Ginny Buckley. Away from houses, Ginny meets a volunteer group helping to restore the area’s local canals and their footpaths so that wildlife can thrive and the public can enjoy a safer stroll.
A move to Norfolk or Suffolk has been a long time in the making for a couple from Middlesex, and Jules Hudson is just the man to help make their dream come true for their £400,000 budget. Aside from property, Jules pays a visit to a new 400-acre wildlife sanctuary and is impressed to see just how quickly Mother Nature can thrive if given the opportunity.
A young couple from London have £325,000 to spend on a new rural home, and it’s Sonali Shah who is leading the search in the Monmouthshire countryside. Sonali takes her buyers to visit a market garden using a novel ‘no dig’ growing method that aims to preserve the soil with a lot less backbreaking work!
There are some impressive properties on offer in Devon today as Nicki Chapman helps a couple from London to figure out what they do and don’t want from their new life in the country. On a break from the house search, Nicki visits a workshop where traditional sign-writing skills are being kept alive.
A desire to move closer to family and the need for a new single-storey home is fuelling today’s buyers to make the move from Birmingham to the Lincolnshire countryside. Jules Hudson is there to help the couple navigate the property market in the county, where he also finds out what a difference nearly 60 years has made in tractor technology.
There are grand ambitions in Norfolk as Alistair Appleton helps an opera singer and his husband find a house with space inside to hold small concerts and a garden big enough to keep a couple of pigs. During his time in the county, Alistair also meets a former fashion editor from London who uses social media to share the joys of her country life from her beautiful Georgian home.
There’s a sense of urgency today in the Welsh Marches as Sonali Shah helps a couple who have already sold their old house to find a new one with enough land to be self-sufficient. Together they visit a community project where locals get to take home and enjoy the vegetables and fruits of their labour.
The focus is on Wiltshire today as Jonnie Irwin helps a couple from London make a life-changing move to this beautiful county. Jonnie also meets a group of bicycling enthusiasts, joining them on a ride through the fascinating Longleat Estate.
A globetrotting couple have decided to move back home for good, and Nicki Chapman lends a hand as they try to find a new address in Oxfordshire’s lovely countryside for their £650k budget. Nicki also discovers how and why the county is leading the way with the recycling of its food waste.
Alistair Appleton shows today's buyer around Pembrokeshire. Whilst in the Welsh county, Alistair takes time out to test the therapeutic benefits of a dip in the cold sea, wearing nothing warmer than his swimming trunks.
After 25 years living in America, today’s couple are heading back to Blighty and have chosen Cornwall for their homecoming. Sonali Shah is on hand to show them some of the best property available in the county for their £675,000 budget. Sonali also drops in on a past Escape buyer to find out all about the highs and lows of moving to this ever-popular county.
Jules Hudson unearths some excellent and innovative property choices in the magical landscape of Perth and Kinross for his buyer’s budget of £210,000. Jules also gets to mess about in a boat on the king of Scotland’s rivers, the magnificent Tay, where he learns about the efforts being made to conserve its salmon population.
There are two counties for the price of one today as Nicki Chapman visits Somerset and Dorset with a buyer from London who is in search of a new life and a new home in the countryside for her £800k budget. Whilst in the area, Nicki also visits the town of Frome to learn how a fridge (yes, a fridge!) is helping to bring the local community together.
A huge kitchen is a big priority for Steve Brown’s couple today as they take in the sights and sounds of the exceptional North Yorkshire countryside. Away from property shopping, Steve meets a group of men in a shed to learn about a scheme that helps their mental and physical health.
Three generations of the same family need help from Jules Hudson to find them a new home in rural Norfolk. In the kitty is £800,000 for a four-bedroom house, an annexe for Granny and enough land for a Shetland pony. Jules also needs a keen eye to spot some of the world’s rarest - and most camera-shy - deer and antelope at a local safari park.
A first-time buyer has decided to leave the home where she grew up in the outskirts of Birmingham for a new one in the nearby Shropshire countryside. Nicki Chapman shows her what the stunning county has to offer and helps out by pulling pints for the locals at a community-owned pub.
Jonnie Irwin takes in the delights of Derbyshire with a couple from Leeds who want to see a range of rural properties with all the trimmings. Jonnie takes time out to visit a repair cafe where, over a coffee and slice of cake, environmentally minded customers can take household items to be mended instead of thrown away.
A new house in the Hampshire countryside is needed for a young couple and their two dogs, and Sonali Shah is on hand to show them the best property the county has to offer for their £500k budget. Whilst there, Sonali visits a contemporary and stylish family home and discovers why its energy bills are virtually nonexistent.
2022 · 50 episodes · Last episode: 3 years ago
Series 23 saw the last appearance of Jonnie Irwin, one of the longest serving members of the 'Escape To The Country' presenting team, having joined in 2009 alongside Nicki Chapman for the programme's 10th series. Irwin's untimely departure was due to him developing lung cancer, which he ultimately died from just a few months after his final episode aired. This series also saw the return of Denise Nurse, who had last appeared as a presenter back in 2014 for the programme's 15th series.
Escape to the Country Series 23 release dates →Jules Hudson is in his element as he explores the glorious countryside of North and West Yorkshire with a couple from a market town in West Sussex. Jules has a superb selection of properties to show them, and key to their wish list is a big workshop where it’s hoped a woodworking hobby will become a profession.
Alistair Appleton helps a couple escape their land-locked life in Leicestershire with a move to Somerset or Devon.
A couple of Brighton seek a complete change of scenery with a move to the beautiful countryside of Fife.
Having outgrown their town flat, two newlyweds with a budget of £400,000 need Ginny Buckley’s help to find a new home in the Dorset countryside that has enough space to keep bicycles, golf clubs and surfboards out of sight. On the world-famous Jurassic Coast, Ginny also meets a lifelong fossil hunter whose impressive treasures are now housed in a purpose-built museum near the coast where they were discovered.
After 16 years down under, Jules Hudson helps a couple to relocate back to Blighty. Their £450,000 budget might not stretch quite as far in Lancashire as it did in Oz, but Jules still has a great selection of properties that are reminiscent of the home they left behind. He also manages to squeeze in a visit to a nature reserve that was created at a quarry used to build the UK’s first motorway.
Having fallen in love with Norfolk a little more with each visit, today’s couple have decided to make the county their home. Denise Nurse is there to help them find their forever house. Denise also gets the opportunity to take the helm of a newly restored boat that played a part in Operation Dynamo, the 1940 evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk.
Alistair Appleton relishes being in his home county of West Sussex today as he shows off some of its many delights, including a selection of beautiful properties. He’s with a married couple who want to follow in Alistair’s footsteps by escaping London in search of a new life and home in the countryside.
Ginny Buckley is in Suffolk, helping a retired couple from Essex find a new home in a thriving village as close to the county’s coast as their £475,000 budget will allow. Ginny also visits a farm during asparagus season, but before she gets to sample some freshly picked vegetables, she must learn first how to harvest them.
Finally able to search for their forever home and a more settled way of life, a former royal marine and a retired civil servant have £375,000 to spend and the expert guidance of Jules Hudson. Jules has a tempting selection of countryside properties to unveil for the couple, who’ve chosen to relocate closer to family in the wonderfully evocative county of Northumberland.
Nicki Chapman is in captivating Cornwall, where she has some wonderful Cornish homes lined up to tempt a buyer from suburban Surrey who is looking for a fresh start for him and his grandson. Whilst in the county, Nicki pays a visit to Newlyn Harbour and discovers how sustainability and traceability are at the forefront of the local fishing industry.
Sonali Shah is house-hunting in Norfolk with a buyer who has holidayed there throughout her life and now wants to make the county her home and business address. She wants to establish holiday lets and also rehome dogs in need, so Sonali takes her to a sanctuary to find out what it takes to look after the thousands of rescue animals in their care.
Steve Brown is on a property-hunting mission in Surrey today, with a buyer who has a budget of £500,000 to find the space she needs for her and her dog.
Today's escapees want to raise their children near the sea, so Jules Hudson takes them to view a selection of wonderful homes in the Devon and Dorset countryside.
It’s an emotional journey today as Alistair Appleton helps a buyer with a £260,00 budget to escape her small flat near Heathrow airport. She is desperate for some peace and quiet, and is hoping that the Wiltshire countryside will deliver the cottage she’s been dreaming of. Talk turns from property to agriculture when Alistair meets a group of young farmers to discuss their views on the future of the industry.
Now that her sons have fledged the nest, today’s buyer wants a new lease of life in a rural home that has business potential. She’s set her sights on either Devon or Dorset, where Briony May Williams has some wonderful property options to show her. Briony also meets another entrepreneurial couple who’ve converted an old railway carriage into a fine dining destination.
Alistair Appleton meets a couple who are looking for a complete change of lifestyle in the Cumbrian countryside. Their relocation is driven by a desire to be closer to their daughter, who has already made the move there. Alistair also visits one of the region’s forests and takes in some spectacular views on an exciting two-wheeled safari.
Steve Brown meets a pair of cycling enthusiasts on the hunt for the perfect rural idyll in the Peak District. They have a budget of £450,000 to swap city life in Essex for the wooded valleys and open moorland of the national park. Steve also takes to the water when he visits one of the country’s top destinations for accessible fishing.
Nicki Chapman helps a buyer with a budget of £450,000 who wants to escape her ex-council flat in south London and create a new life in the Wiltshire countryside. She’s after somewhere with a bit more space for herself and her young daughter. Taking a breather from property, Nicki also discovers why the county’s chalk streams are the perfect habitat for trout when she pays a visit to a sustainable fish farm.
A couple from the largest town in Dorset want to escape the urban sprawl to establish a new country life in Devon, and Sonali Shah is on hand to help them kick-start their property search. Sonali also learns the importance of the role local newspapers play in keeping their communities connected and informed.
Cheshire may be a world away from Miami, where today’s couple are moving from, but to them, it’s a county that feels like home, and Alistair Appleton is on hand to help them settle in. As an area once famed for its silk production, Alistair also takes the opportunity to visit a factory specialising in hand-printed luxury garments.
With a budget of £440,000, today’s couple are looking forward to retiring from the Buckinghamshire commuter belt to a new home on the majestic Isle of Wight. Steve Brown helps them with their house hunting and also discovers why the island is an ideal location for growing dozens of varieties of tomatoes.
With the recent arrival of grandchildren, today's globetrotting escapees are returning home for good from Malaysia and want to put down permanent roots in the Herefordshire countryside. Nicki Chapman is on hand with some great property options plus her expert advice to help plant them firmly in this lovely county.
With the help of her mother and Jules Hudson, a buyer from suburban Surrey is looking for a new family home with enough land to start a dog-training school in south west Wales.
The devoted owners of no fewer than six Irish wolfhounds are in desperate need of more space for them and those countless muddy paws, so have set their sights on Suffolk for a bit more elbow room. Briony May Williams is there to guide them as they tour a selection of beautiful homes. Briony also gets to mess about on a stunning million-pound wooden yacht, a sister vessel to the ones featured in James Bond.
In true Escape to the Country style, today’s couple (both former international rugby players) want to leave London in search of a rural idyll in Dorset, and Alistair Appleton is the man to help them on their way. Aside from property, Alistair learns about the health benefits of watercress at a farm that specialises in growing this delicious and nutritious crop.
Space for holiday lets or glamping is the priority for a couple today who are chasing a complete change of lifestyle in Wales. Steve Brown kick-starts their Powys property journey with a great selection of countryside homes with business potential. He also takes time to visit a local reservoir that was built by the Victorians but looks every inch part of the natural landscape.
It’s destination Argyll and Bute today. Sonali Shah tours this region of Scotland in search of a new home for a couple from a Warwickshire town who have a budget of £340,000. Sonali almost takes to the water on Loch Lomond, as she lends a hand to help a group of volunteers restoring the last paddle steamer to be built in Britain, a treasured relic of Scottish history.
The pressure is on Nicki Chapman to find today’s couple their perfect property in wonderful Wiltshire, as they have already sold their London home. Away from house hunting, and being no stranger to the airwaves herself, Nicki pays a visit to one of the county’s local radio stations to find out how it helps to keep the community connected.
A couple from urban Hertfordshire with a £550,000 budget have their sights set on moving to the Somerset countryside, and Jules Hudson has some splendid properties lined up to tempt them. However, Jules has a big surprise up his sleeve as he questions not the type of new home they’re looking for, but the location of it.
A keen singer from south east London, accompanied by her good friend, needs help to find a new home in Cambridgeshire with her budget of £360,000. Sonali Shah is only too happy to offer some guidance, and together they explore a range of interesting property possibilities, potential new communities and plenty of countryside.
Steve Brown is on hand to help a couple of newlyweds who are looking to escape south London and set down roots in the stunning countryside of Cumbria. They have already discounted a dozen properties, so the pressure is on Steve to deliver somewhere that can become their very first home together.
Nicki Chapman teams up with an author from west London who wants to pen an exciting new chapter for herself in the beautiful Oxfordshire countryside. Away from the property hunt, Nicki visits a small village in the county to find out why it was recently named ‘the kindest village in Britain’.
Today, we have a marvellous multi-generational move to consider as Alistair Appleton guides one family, spread over four generations, to find two houses in one village. It’s a tall order, but Alistair presents a whole host of interesting property options, including the mystery house that promises to bring them closer together than they ever imagined.
Denise Nurse is in the coastal county of Cornwall today, helping a couple to turn their favourite holiday destination into their permanent home on a budget of £475,000. Away from the search, Denise visits a new development that’s tackling the county’s housing crisis by prioritising the needs of local Cornish people.
An adventurous young couple from Nottinghamshire are looking to move county and country to Argyll and Bute, where Sonali Shah has some splendid Scottish properties waiting to show them. In an action-packed few days, Sonali also takes to the water on a paddleboard and to the air in a seaplane, delighting at the spectacular views on offer from above.
Briony May Williams meets a couple from London who are in the market for a new home in the countryside of Oxfordshire or Wiltshire, as long as it has enough space for them and their two young sons.
After 23 years living in Canada, today's buyer is returning to the UK for good. With a budget of £400,000, she is looking to make her rural escape to Devon, but there's a catch - she has never been to the county before. She need not worry because Nicki Chapman has, many times before.
It's an island escape today, as Jules Hudson helps a couple from a town in Cheshire to find their dream home on Anglesey. During the busy week of house-hunting,
Looking to leave London for Derbyshire, a couple with four children need some expert guidance from Denise Nurse, as she helps them navigate the county's rural housing market in search of the perfect family home.
A soon-to-be retired vicar and her husband need Sonali Shah’s help to find a new home in the beautiful countryside of Gloucestershire. Sonali also visits Adam Henson, who, as well as being the nation’s favourite farmer, is also the custodian of his father’s legacy - a farm dedicated to the conservation of some of the rarest livestock breeds in the world.
In West Yorkshire, Steve Brown supports an artist who is looking to leave London to realise her ambition of living life in the countryside. Steve also visits the town of Todmorden and discovers a remarkable community project encouraging the planting and growing of food in public spaces for anyone to harvest and enjoy.
In Ayrshire, Jonnie Irwin helps a retired couple who want to reconnect with their Scottish roots. They have a budget of £500,000 and a view over water is a property priority. Whilst in the region, Jonnie also learns about an ancient technique used to produce salt using sea water and an impressive tower of blackthorn branches.
It’s a first for Nicki Chapman and the Escape to the Country team today as they head to glorious Guernsey in the Channel Islands. They’re there to help find a fabulous family home for a young couple and their three children. Nicki also meets some of the island’s most famous four-legged inhabitants, a herd of Guernsey cows.
Feeling an affinity for Wales and in particular the island of Anglesey, a Canadian couple ask Briony May Williams to find them the stone cottage they’ve always dreamed of owning for their budget of £450,000. Briony also visits the island’s sea zoo to learn about their work conserving endangered marine life, including the sedentary seahorse.
Wanting to be close to the coast, a couple from Birmingham have decided that Cornwall is the perfect destination for their escape, and Sonali Shah is on hand to make their dream come true. And when is a brick not just a brick? Sonali finds out by visiting a company creating habitats for solitary bees. Their method can also be used in the construction of homes for humans.
Having spent 30 years living and working in Hong Kong, today’s escapee teams up with Jonnie Irwin in North Yorkshire with a house-hunting budget of £350,000. Away from the property shopping, Jonnie heads to the Yorkshire Dales to discover what is being done to restore and preserve one of the most environmentally important landscapes in Europe.
Two sisters want to combine their resources in Somerset to find a secluded house that has enough land to start their own music festival, though on a slightly smaller scale than the one the county is famous for. Alistair Appleton escorts them on their search and has time to visit the village of Stoke St Gregory, where an old pub has been transformed into not just the local watering hole but a community shop and café too.
Devon is today’s destination, where Nicki Chapman helps a couple from south London with a £500,000 budget to search for their dream home in the countryside. Wanting to help out in the community, Nicki takes them to Appledore to meet the brave men and women who volunteer at the village's RNLI station.
Jules Hudson is in the Welsh county of Powys with a couple whose property wish list includes an annexe for their parents, along with at least half an acre of land for their budget of £650,000. Jules also meets a man who scours space with his telescopes, looking for large, undiscovered objects that could be on a collision course with Earth. Fortunately, he hasn’t found any... yet!
Sonali Shah helps a young couple wanting to swap town life in Halifax for country life in the wonderful surroundings of North Yorkshire. Taking a break from the properties, Sonali visits one of the largest farm shops in the UK, where she discovers from its customers and staff just what they think sets it apart from the supermarket chains.
2023 · 50 episodes · Last episode: 2 years ago
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Denise Nurse is tasked with finding a permanent home for a family who’ve spent the last year travelling around in their camper van on the Isle of Skye.
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Nicki Chapman has a very tempting selection of properties for a young couple, currently living in Manchester, who are hoping to up sticks to the Cheshire countryside with their young daughter.
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Briony May Williams helps a retired couple who live just outside Belfast move closer to their family by finding a home in Herefordshire.
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Nicki Chapman’s buyers have spent the last 25 years living and working in America. They now want to find their new, forever home in the Aberdeenshire countryside.
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A house with as much natural light as possible is top of today’s property shopping list, and Jules Hudson is just the chap to find it in the region of the Bedfordshire borders.
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Having been to the Lake District over 50 times, today’s couple have decided to stop visiting and start living in one of the UK’s most spectacular National Parks.
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Denise Nurse is in Suffolk, helping a couple find a new home in a more rural setting, where they can enjoy retired life together, closer to the coast, lakes or waterways.
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A young couple want to swap their London flat for something bigger in the East Midlands, where Nicki Chapman opens the front doors to a lovely selection of homes with lovely gardens.
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Alistair Appleton is on a property-hunting mission to the beautiful Cotswolds, with a couple who want a location with dog walks on the doorstep, as well as decent dining options for date nights!
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Briony May Williams teams up with a retired Shakespeare scholar, who with a £300,000 budget hopes to write a new chapter in her life in the Cumbrian countryside.
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It’s an emotional homecoming for Jules Hudson as he visits County Down and County Antrim. He’s with a couple who want to relocate there after a lifetime spent in the Canadian city of Toronto.
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Motivated by wanting to move closer to family, an escapee has her sister on hand for moral support and Sonali Shah’s property know-how to help find the ideal rural retreat. Sonali also gets to meet some very sleepy baby barn owls and learns what needs to be done to protect these beautiful birds.
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Ginny Buckley helps a couple with a budget of £400,000 look for a new home in South West Wales with at least an acre of land for glamping and a forestry school.
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Alistair Appleton helps a couple with a baby boy who crave more space swap their one-bedroom flat in south London for a home in the Chiltern Hills.
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A couple want to swap their Cheshire townhouse for the dark skies and beautiful open spaces of Shropshire. Denise Nurse helps them with the property search and also visits a flower farm in full bloom to witness first hand how modern technology is working hand-in-hand with nature.
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Having spent the past four years living in the US state of Texas, a couple and their two young children are looking to find a family home in an Oxfordshire or Buckinghamshire village.
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With a budget of £400,000, Jules Hudson is on hand to make a Sydney couple's dream of an escape to Aberdeenshire come true. Away from the property shopping, Jules makes friends with some of the region’s hairy, horny residents... a herd of Highland cattle.
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Returning home after eight years of living and working in Abu Dhabi, two teachers want to swap desert sand for the beaches of East Sussex.
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Today’s escapees want to move to Shropshire to be closer to family and have entrusted Alistair Appleton to help them find a lovely rural retreat for both them and their bees.
Ginny Buckley’s buyer today is chasing an inspiring landscape. She wants a new Carmarthenshire home that has as much land as her £450,000 budget can muster.
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Jules Hudson helps a couple in their search for the perfect West Country pad in Devon and finds out why the county’s north coast has been designated as the UK’s first and only World Surfing Reserve.
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Wanting to move closer to family, Nicki Chapman celebrates the arrival of her buyers’ first grandchild by helping them find a new home in Cumbria.
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Steve Brown helps his escapees from a large Bedfordshire town to find at least an acre of land in the Fens in order to set up their own glamping business.
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With a budget of £400,000, an ambitious young couple from the West Midlands has the help of Sonali Shah to find a renovation project and a couple of acres of land in the Welsh Borders.
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Jules Hudson takes in Scotland’s stunning Cairngorms as he helps a couple from the Isle of Wight to find a rural property that will fulfil their ambitions for home as well as a new business.
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In a bid to move closer to family, today's buyer has Nicki Chapman to help find a home in the Oxfordshire countryside for her and her son.
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Helping a young couple from the city of St Albans, Briony May Williams heads to Buckinghamshire to find a fabulous countryside escape for them and Dexter the dog.
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On the lookout for a property with potential for a holiday let business, as well as a home, Jules Hudson shows off a gloriously sunny Cornwall to today's entrepreneurial couple.
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Denise Nurse shows off the magnificent Scottish Borders in all their glory to a young couple looking to make a big countryside escape. One half wants to open a veterinary practice in the region, and the other needs outbuildings for cars and motorbikes, but they are both united by their love of the great outdoors.
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Even though the daily commute from London to their Bedfordshire business is taking its toll, Nicki Chapman has her work cut out persuading one half of today's couple to move to the county's borders!
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A couple from Reading in Berkshire want to escape and set up home in the Welsh Borders, somewhere with enough land to keep a menagerie of animals. Steve Brown helps them with the property search and takes them to an animal sanctuary to meet Burrito, a cuddle-loving donkey, as well as two pampered pigs, Wilbur and Uncle Watson.
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On a bid to escape the city, today's couple and their three children are looking for a change of lifestyle for the whole family, and Nicki Chapman is in Norfolk to help them find it.
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Denise Nurse delivers the Peak District on a plate as she helps a couple from a town in Oxfordshire to find their dream country home for a budget of £450,000.
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Sonali Shah marvels at the majesty of Perth and Kinross, as she helps a couple from a large town on England's south coast to find their dream country escape in Scotland. With their house-hunting budget of £425,000, lots of bookshelves, or places for them, are a top priority.
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Missing family and the great British countryside, today's couple are heading home to Warwickshire having spent the last six years living and working in the USA. Jules Hudson helps with their house search and visits an 18th century walled garden to meet the volunteers who help keep it in tip-top condition.
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Wanting to leave town life behind them, this episode's couple have their sights set on a new countryside home in Northamptonshire, and Ginny Buckley is on hand to help them find it.
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In Hampshire, Steve Brown has some excellent houses in his property shopping bag to show today's couple who, along with their two children and two tortoises, want to live as close as possible to the county's beautiful beaches.
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In wonderful West Yorkshire, Nicki Chapman is with a young couple from Manchester who have a budget of £270,000 to find a home in the countryside for them and their baby son.
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Jules Hudson is in Perth and Kinross, helping a young couple with a budget of £350,000 to find an ideal country home for them and their two young sons. Jules also meets a group of keen stand-up paddleboarders who do their bit to keep the waterways free of litter.
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Needing more space for books, as well as an impressive collection of rocks, today's couple from Edinburgh have Alistair Appleton to help them with their rural relocation to Northumberland.
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Now back in the UK, a young couple crave the outdoors lifestyle they experienced together for nearly three years in New Zealand. Nicki Chapman's helps them find a new home in the fabulous countryside of North Yorkshire, where they want to spend their spare time running, cycling and walking.
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Having taken a leap of faith, today's couple from Scotland stuck a pin in a map that landed in lovely Lincolnshire. Sonali Shah tours the county with them, showing them the very best property the county has to offer for their £220,000 budget.
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Jules Hudson explores one of the UK's most beautiful locations today as he sets about finding the ideal Wye Valley property for his house hunters. Having put their Portugal home on the market, they've recently been touring the UK in their beloved camper van named Dave and are itching to settle down somewhere with more space inside and out!
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After 26 years in London, today's couple has headed north to the Scottish Lothians in search of a complete change of lifestyle. They have a house-hunting budget of £475,000 and Nicki Chapman to help them spend it.
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A pair of artists need Alistair Appleton's help to find an inspiring rural retreat in Somerset where they can further indulge their creativity.
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Having lived in the same house virtually all her life, a ukelele-playing buyer has £280,000 to relocate to Wales. Briony May Williams is tasked with helping her find the perfect property, and it will need to accommodate an entourage of animals.
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Seeking a less hectic lifestyle in Yorkshire, a London couple have £425,000 to spend on a new home, and Steve Brown is on hand to help them find it.
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Jules Hudson savours the spectacular scenery and splendid isolation on offer in Scotland's Caithness, as he helps a young family with a house-hunting budget of £270,000 to realise their dream of self-sufficiency.
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Sonali Shah tours the East Midlands in search of a property to suit buyers who have lived in the USA for the last 23 years.
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Denise Nurse is in Norfolk with a buyer who wants to move closer to her family, and who has her son in tow for support. Plus, Denise meets someone who has taken the idea of mobile homes on wheels to a whole new level.
2024 · 50 episodes · Last episode: 1 year ago
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Briony May Williams is in rural Herefordshire, helping a couple who are looking to buy their first home together where they can finally get their collection of potted plants in the ground.
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In north Wales, Jules Hudson helps a buyer turn a favourite holiday destination into his forever home by finding a dog-friendly house with rural walks on the doorstep.
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Steve Brown is with a buyer who is hoping to find a new house in her childhood home county of Devon, and visits an organic orchard producing award-winning cider.
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Briony May Williams helps a young couple trade in their London flat for a family home in rural Suffolk, with space for their two children to enjoy a new life in the country.
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Having met online and fallen in love just over a year ago, today's couple are calling on the help of Nicki Chapman to find them their very first home together in East Sussex.
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The coast is a theme today as Denise Nurse helps a keen gardener move to North Yorkshire to be closer to her family and her treasured grandson.
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Briony May Williams has her work cut out on as she helps a couple who claim to have viewed over a thousand properties online in their search for their dream home in rural Suffolk. Keeping fit and healthy is a priority, and so is space for all their sports gear.
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Today’s buyer fell in love with the Lake District as a child and feels that now the time is right to finally make her dream move there. Sonali Shah is on hand with a selection of gorgeous cottages in some of the region’s most sought-after villages, including a one-of-a-kind mystery house.
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Nicki Chapman is in Devon, house hunting with a pair of entrepreneurial sisters who dream of creating their very own glamping business.
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With the last of their children about to fly the nest, a couple from a Berkshire town need Jules Hudson’s help to find them a new home in Suffolk with holiday let potential.
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There’s no time like the present for Alistair Appleton's buyers, who hope to realise a lifelong dream of living by the sea in Dorset.
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Sonali Shah is house-hunting with a couple from New York who want to swap the Big Apple for a bite of the Somerset countryside.
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Jules Hudson explores the Wiltshire countryside with a buyer looking to leave her London home of nearly 50 years.
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Nicki Chapman is on a sun-soaked escape as she helps a couple to swap London for the Chiltern Hills, seeking out a home with space for hobbies and visiting family and friends.
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Denise Nurse is in Suffolk, with a selection of tempting property options, on a mission to help a teacher finally settle down after three decades travelling the world.
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Family comes first as Ginny Buckley explores the Wye Valley with a couple whose move is fuelled by a desire to be closer to their grandchildren. Along the way, Ginny visits a family-run fermented foods business where she makes her very own kimchi.
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Alistair Appleton heads to Devon, with a mother-and-daughter duo hopeful of finding a new countryside home for the whole family in or near Dartmoor National Park. Business potential is at the top of the wish list, as there are ambitions to create a retreat centring on their love of horses and yoga.
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Sonali Shah helps an outdoor enthusiast with a £180,000 budget relocate to south Wales and also meets a couple running a rural business based on art and animals.
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Jules Hudson is property-shopping in the Leicestershire countryside with a young couple who are hoping to buy their very first home together. Whilst in the county, Jules also meets a former beautician who traded in her career to work full-time on the family farm.
E36
Denise Nurse helps newlyweds from London, who want to swap the chaos of the city for the serenity of the Surrey countryside and finally get the dog they’ve been dreaming of.
E35
In the wonderful Wye Valley, Sonali Shah goes house-hunting with a couple from the Australian state of Tasmania, who are looking to buy their first home together. Sonali also drops in for a chat with TV presenter Kate Humble and tours her Wye Valley farm.
E34
A London couple want to escape from the city to either Somerset or Devon, where Briony May Williams has the keys to some wonderful countryside properties.
E33
Jules Hudson helps a rock-climbing couple from an East Midlands town look for a new, rural home that gives them access to the hills and dales of North Yorkshire. Whilst in the county, Jules attends the Great Yorkshire Show, an event which celebrates the region's food, countryside and agriculture.
E32
Alistair Appleton is hoping his selection of seaside properties passes the test as he helps a retired schoolteacher find a new home on the Jurassic Coast.
E31
In his home county of Kent, Steve Brown helps two newlyweds from London find a new, spacious and dog-friendly family home in the countryside. Steve also meets another couple who, eight years ago, swapped their city flat for a beautiful cottage in the county, where they also established a business.
E30
In between marvelling at the majestic countryside on offer in east Devon, Nicki Chapman goes house-hunting with a couple of Londoners who are itching to escape to the countryside.
E29
Wanting to move to a quieter village than where they currently live, today’s couple have tasked Denise Nurse to find them a new home in the Hampshire or Wiltshire countryside.
E28
Lost for words at the amazing property shown to them in Jules Hudson’s beloved Herefordshire, today’s couple need enough space for them, their dog and Dotty the caravan. Jules also discovers what it takes to create flower-rich meadows, vital habitats for wildlife and nature recovery.
E27
After 15 years living and working in Dubai, two expats want to return home to the UK and need Sonali Shah’s help to find them a new home in wonderful West Sussex. Sonali also drops in on a farm which specialises in growing a variety of sunflowers, many of which are taller than she is!
E26
Nicki Chapman is in the Cairngorms with a couple who, after exploring the UK in their campervan for the last two years, have decided to settle in the Scottish countryside.
E25
There’s no place quite like Argyll and Bute, or so says Denise Nurse’s buyer, who wants to return there from Kent. Taking a break from the house hunting, Denise hops on a ferry to the Isle of Bute to meet an artist who takes his inspiration from the landscape and the wildlife that lives there.
E24
Sonali Shah is in magnificent Northumberland, helping three generations of the same family to escape from Leicester and find a new rural home together.
E23
Berkshire’s beautiful countryside will be a far cry from busy Slough, where today’s couple is moving from, and Ginny Buckley is on hand to help with the house hunting.
E22
A career change means today’s buyers urgently need Alistair Appleton’s help in finding them a rural property in Derbyshire or Staffordshire.
E21
Today’s couple are newly retired, newly engaged, and with the help of Briony May Williams, are now looking for a new home surrounded by North Yorkshire’s spectacular countryside.
E20
Today’s couple has decided to move to the peace and quiet of the East Devon border region, where Jules Hudson is on hand to help out with a spot of property shopping.
E19
Alistair Appleton helps a couple from the South Yorkshire city of Doncaster find a new home in the wonderful Welsh valleys. He'll need a good head for heights when he meets up with the volunteers from the local mountain rescue team.
E18
Three dogs and their two owners want to make their dream countryside escape from the busy port city of Southampton to beautiful, rural Herefordshire, where Denise Nurse is ready and waiting with the front door keys to a selection of new homes with exceptional potential.
E17
Emotions are running high in the West Yorkshire countryside as Nicki Chapman helps a buyer from a Hertfordshire town find a new home in the beautiful county where she grew up.
E16
Wanting to escape south London, a mother and son meet up with Sonali Shah in the Lothians, where they want to find their ideal rural retreat, complete with an art studio.
E15
Alistair Appleton helps a buyer from Maidstone in Kent realise her dream of moving to the Dorset countryside, where she wants to be closer to her family.
E14
A newly engaged couple from Cheshire want to buy their first home together in rural Northumberland, where Jules Hudson is on hand to show them a selection of houses that matches their wish list. A secluded location along with enough land to have a holiday let are their top priorities.
E13
Returning to the UK, after 22 years in eastern Australia, today’s couple have decided they now want to call the glorious Gloucestershire countryside home.
E12
Having almost made their escape seven years ago, today’s couple want to try again, tasking Ginny Buckley to help them move from a Surrey town to the Norfolk/Suffolk border.
E11
Steve Brown marvels at the spectacular scenery on offer in Scotland's Perth and Kinross and beyond as he helps a couple with three children from a city in Essex find their dream home in the countryside. They need a big garden, good transport links and want to be within half an hour of a rugby club.
E10
Today’s buyers don’t mind if they find a new home in Hampshire or Dorset, just as long as it’s near their happy place, the sea. Denise Nurse is there to put a smile on their faces!
E9
Nicki Chapman’s buyers are already renting in the beautiful Herefordshire countryside, but they need Nicki’s help to find them a house of their own, with space for a holiday let.
E8
Hoping to escape to the dramatic countryside of north Wales, Jules Hudson’s buyers want to find a new home with at least an acre of land where they can create a wellbeing retreat.
E7
Today’s buyer needs Alistair Appleton’s help to find a new home in Suffolk, where Alistair also meets a couple who have established a beautiful, biodiverse wildflower meadow.
E6
Sonali Shah helps a young couple who are looking forward to buying their first house together in the picturesque countryside of Devon. Sonali also takes to the water as she learns about a project that brings awareness of what lies beneath the surface of the sea along the county’s stunning coastline.
2025 · 50 episodes · Last episode: 6 months ago
E50
Nicki Chapman helps Carol find a new home for her and her husband to be near the sea. It’s an escape featuring homes with roses around the door and breathtaking mountain views.
E49
Alistair Appleton helps mother and daughter, Diana and Millie, seek out space to bloom in the Somerset countryside and also meets a couple who have planted their very own vineyard.
E48
In the Cornwall countryside, Briony May Williams helps a Sheffield couple find a countryside home with room for their impressive collection of book and film memorabilia.
E47
Jules Hudson helps a family from the coastal city of Southend-on-Sea find a Suffolk home with a holiday let, then stops by a boatyard which lovingly restores historic boats.
E46
A couple look for a Somerset home for their young family that has room for chickens, llamas and maybe a pig. Denise Nurse lines up some wonderful rural options.
E45
Ginny Buckley is in rural Worcestershire, with a tempting property line-up to fulfil the dreams of her escapees. She also meets a family who left London to start a brewery.
E44
Alistair Appleton helps a couple looking for a characterful, dog-friendly home in either Norfolk or Suffolk for them and their whippets. He then meets a willow farmer championing the sustainable crop.
E43
Richie Anderson helps a couple branch out to fulfil their forest school dream. He also meets an innovative artist who creates masterpieces on a bicycle-powered sewing machine.
E42
Jules Hudson helps a couple returning to the UK from Australia find a home in Cornwall with views and Cornish charm. He also visits a slate mine that has been turned into a stunning off-grid retreat.
E41
Sonali Shah helps Norman and Linda swap London for a breath of fresh sea air in Dorset, with a standout mystery house and a relaxing stop at a seaweed spa.
E40
Denise Nurse helps a couple who want a unique Sussex home, and the quirkier, the better Her line-up includes some wow-factor properties, any one of which could be the mystery house.
E39
Alistair Appleton is in Cornwall, helping a couple to trade in city life for a coastal home. He also stops by a regenerative farm focused on nourishing land, body and mind.
E38
Nicki Chapman helps a retired couple find their dream Devon home by the sea and meets a Dartmoor family who map family-friendly walks in the National Park for all to enjoy.
E37
Jules Hudson has a line-up of beautiful Cambridgeshire houses for a retired couple who want to relocate to be closer to family. Jules also visits the inspiring Great Fen Project.
E36
Briony May Williams helps a Canadian couple find a Peak District cottage to call home and meets an octogenarian volunteer ranger who has spent decades caring for the National Park.
E35
Alistair Appleton helps globetrotter Sabiha find an Argyll and Bute retreat, with a line-up that includes a magical home on an island, just a short ferry ride from the mainland.
E34
Retired Jenny from Kent heads for the North Wessex Downs to be near her son and, with Jules Hudson’s help, she’s hoping to find a rosy cottage to call home.
E33
In Scotland's Central Lowlands, Sonali Shah helps a Canadian couple to make a rural escape and meets Californians who bought their dream home, sight unseen, and never looked back.
E32
Nicki Chapman is in the West Country, helping three generations from the West Midlands to make a Devon escape. She also tries her hand at weaving with a local textile designer.
E31
Steve Brown helps a couple wanting space for animals to swap urban Gloucestershire for rural Herefordshire and also visits former escapees who now run a thriving organic farm.
E30
In rural Shropshire, Alistair Appleton helps newlyweds from an Essex town find a traditional home and meets a local artist for some feather-filled poultry painting en plein air.
E29
Jules Hudson helps Sarah from Newcastle to find peace, privacy and glorious views in Northumberland. On a break from the property viewings, they visit Capheaton Hall’s glorious walled garden.
E28
Denise Nurse helps a house hunter escape to rural Nottinghamshire. She also visits Sherwood Forest to learn how its ancient oaks are overcoming the challenges of climate change.
E27
Ginny Buckley helps a theatre couple swap London life for a West Yorkshire home with rural sparkle and then meets a family who started a bold new life on a 30-acre farm.
E26
Steve Brown helps a couple find an eco-friendly Devon home, as well as meeting someone who has already made his own escape and turned a traditional village pub into something super-stylish.
E25
From thatched charm to characterful new builds, Sonali Shah helps a young couple from a commuter town find their first and forever home in Cambridgeshire.
E24
Alistair Appleton helps a retired couple and their five sausage dogs find a perfect East Sussex home with room to rescue animals.
E23
Briony May Williams helps a buyer from Leeds with £250,000 to spend and an eye for something eco-friendly and inspiring to follow her intuition to move to Pembrokeshire.
E22
Richie Anderson helps a retiree from Lincolnshire find her dream Devonshire home by the sea and the lifestyle she has always wanted.
E21
Nicki Chapman helps two rock musicians find an Oxfordshire home with space for a studio and also meets a South American baker hitting the right notes in a village bakery.
E20
Jules Hudson joins two fitness fans hunting for a dream Cornish home near the coast. After some promising house tours, they all try a spot of gig boat racing in Padstow.
E19
Denise Nurse is in the Carmarthenshire countryside, showing a retired couple from Jersey some special homes, including one which comes complete with some beavers in the backyard.
E18
Alistair Appleton helps a couple move from Germany to Herefordshire or Gloucestershire, and he also meets a writer living her best country life.
E17
Ginny Buckley helps a London buyer find her dream home in the Dorset countryside and also meets a family who have turned local fish canning into a coastal success story.
E16
Jules Hudson is in the Powys countryside, helping a couple with two dogs, three cats and a motorbike find a home. He also visits a pioneering farm project growing a greener future.
E15
Alistair Appleton helps a retired couple from the Wirral find their ideal Cornish bungalow within reach of a pub. Alistair also visits a local seal sanctuary to meet some unforgettable residents.
E14
Briony May Williams helps a London buyer wanting a dream Yorkshire cottage for her and her pet dog and then meets some coffee-roasting locals loving life on the edge of the moors.
E13
It’s an Escape to the County first as Jules Hudson visits the Isle of Man with a retired nurse who knows the island better than he does! Stunning views and lovely homes await.
E12
A sunny adventure in the Kent countryside with a couple chasing fresh air and freedom, Nicki Chapman’s rural property prowess, a medieval mystery house and a fabulous flower farm.
E11
Alistair Appleton helps a young, soon-to-be-married couple find a dream home in the countryside of North Somerset, then unwinds with some meditation 'me time' in the Somerset Levels.
E10
Denise Nurse helps a couple, plus grandma, to swap town life for a new beginning that suits the whole family in the epically beautiful and remote countryside of Northumberland.
E9
Jules Hudson heads to the Cumbrian countryside with a sporty couple who are chasing a fresh start and have plans for a carpentry business and plenty of outdoor adventures.
E8
Emotions are running high during a house hunt in Herefordshire, where Sonali Shah is helping a couple to make a fresh start in the countryside after a life-changing event.
E7
Steve Brown helps a southeast London couple find a family home on the Norfolk-Suffolk border, with homes that include two listed gems and a striking Mystery House.
E6
Nicki Chapman helps a couple from the city of Wolverhampton to find a new home and lifestyle in Shropshire, before braving an outdoors adventure playground with a giant zip wire.
E5
A couple with four kids searches for outdoor adventures and fresh air in North Yorkshire, where Briony May Williams helps them find a family home with room to spread their wings.
E4
Richie Anderson joins the Escape to the Country line up, helping a couple of born and bred Brummies to find the perfect character property on his home turf of the rural Midlands.
E3
A mum and son with a £350,000 budget return from overseas, hoping to find a classic Kent cottage full of charm. Denise Nurse helps them make a fresh start in the Garden of England.
E2
Jules Hudson helps two retired drama teachers swap busy Sheffield for a new rural life in the beautiful Devon countryside.
E1
A couple from suburban Cheshire discover that stunning views don't have to cost a fortune as Sonali Shah finds them a home on Argyll and Bute’s Kintyre peninsula for a £250,000 budget.
2026 · 28 episodes · Last episode: 3 weeks ago
Richie Anderson helps Gary and Mel make rural Lincolnshire home, with £450,000 to bring them closer to their daughter and give them enough space to welcome the whole family.
E25
Sonali Shah helps a Warwickshire couple with £350,000 to spend realise a 41-year-old dream of moving to be by the sea on Anglesey and learns about living a slower-paced life.
E24
Nicki Chapman helps a London couple find a West Sussex home in the country for £380,000, including a mystery house with a New York loft feel, going full circle on their love story.
E23
Alistair Appleton helps a couple find their dream home in delightful Derbyshire for them and their dog Basil, and also discovers an ambitious wildlife reintroduction project.
E22
Briony May Williams helps a Kent family find a home in north Yorkshire for £280,000, visits a local vineyard and unveils a mystery waterside house with an impressive view.
E21
Denise Nurse helps Caroline from Kent return to her happy place in the Northamptonshire countryside and meets a young couple transforming their dream cottage ready for family life.
E20
Sonali Shah helps Neil and Lisa search Devon for their dream home, but will a view, a turret, the wing of a grand mansion or a utility room steal their hearts?
E19
Nicki Chapman helps Jules and Sharlean swap suburban life for rural Cheshire and fresh countryside walks, before the mystery house springs a cross-border surprise.
E18
Jules Hudson is in Herefordshire, helping Andy and Sian find a rural home for them, their daughters and hopefully some horses, as well as a donkey they’re going to call Derek.
E17
Alistair Appleton helps mum Sonya, and her son William find an Aberdeenshire family home, with suitable land for horses. The tour concludes with an epically vast mystery house.
E16
Sonali Shah helps a house hunter to swap city life in Amsterdam for a pretty Peak District cottage, and she also explores woodland being replanted and regenerated for the future.
E15
It’s a Northern Ireland homecoming in County Down, where Jules Hudson helps golf-loving Siobhan find a countryside home for her family but not without some sisterly support.
E14
Denise Nurse helps Charlotte from south London find a rural Gloucestershire escape, touring old, new and converted homes before helping to feed spring lambs down on the farm.
E13
Alistair Appleton helps a young family search north east Wales for a home with land to suit animals and outdoor adventures. Afterwards, he meets a farmer passionate about healthy soil.
E12
Richie Anderson helps a couple trade in their town life for a bigger home in the Lincolnshire countryside that has plenty of room for family, including six grandchildren.
E11
Briony May Williams helps Andrew and Will escape a busy Oxfordshire town for scenic Devon and Cornwall, and meets a renovator who bought a Devonshire farmhouse on a whim.
E10
Alistair Appleton helps a couple and their dog Daisy swap France for the East Riding of Yorkshire, hunting for a home nearer family, friends and proper fish and chips.
E9
Steve Brown helps a whippet-loving couple swap a Sussex town for rural Suffolk, where they hope to establish a glamping retreat. Steve also explores a new scenic cycle route.
E8
Jules Hudson helps Lisa swap Northampton for a Powys life reboot with her children and takes to a canoe, 128 feet above the ground!
E7
An air ambulance pilot has £200,000 to find a new home within an hour of Belfast airport. Briony May Willams is on hand to help and has a go at Irish dancing by Lough Neagh.
E6
Nicki Chapman helps Peggy leave London for a rural Gloucestershire home with views for her, two dogs and horse. And there’s a taste of country life from former street food chefs.
E5
After 30 years in Stoke-on-Trent, a couple wanting to be close to their grandchild head to Wiltshire with Ginny Buckley, looking for a new home where separate bathrooms are a must!
E4
With Jules Hudson’s help, Mickey wants to relocate from a busy seaside town to the quiet of the Somerset countryside, where they tour houses with land, annexes and streams.
E3
Alistair Appleton helps a couple search for their first home together in Oxfordshire, with space for pets and plants. He also visits Oxford Botanic Garden to explore nature-inspired technology.
E2
Richie Anderson is house-hunting in North Yorkshire with Sarah, who wants a character-packed cottage. Richie also meets a couple running an 'egg-centric' restaurant on their farm.
E1
Denise Nurse helps a couple return to Carmarthenshire to raise their child in the countryside and meets a family who have recently relocated and are loving life in their farmhouse.
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The most recent episode of Escape to the Country, Season 27 Episode 28, aired on October 13, 2026.
Escape to the Country has 27 seasons with 1,307 episodes in total.
Escape to the Country first aired on BBC One on October 14, 2002.
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