Escape to the Country
Series 18
TV-PG
The property show that helps prospective buyers find their dream home.
Where to Watch Escape to the Country • Series 18
70 Episodes
- Ceredigion
E14CeredigionAlistair Appleton harnesses his positive energy for a house-hunting mission in the Welsh county of Ceredigion, as he helps a couple with a £355,000 budget buy a country home with the potential for a spiritual retreat. Along the way, Alistair heads to Llandysul to meet a dynamic dairy-farming family. They have successfully diversified and now produce a local teifi cheese, as well as a botanical gin, both of which Alistair is keen to sample. - Cornwall
E15CornwallNicki Chapman heads to Cornwall to help a Croydon-based couple with a £450,000 budget and a love of the great outdoors find their perfect country home. Nicki also discovers how one Cornish farm is running with a national initiative to create a food enterprise zone. She samples first-hand how Norton Barton Farm hopes to become a food artisan village for local producers. - North Yorkshire
E16North YorkshireJules Hudson helps a pair of expats who are raring to return to their roots in North Yorkshire and have a £700,000 budget to find their ideal rural home. While in the region, Jules gets into the hot seat of a First World War fighter plane when he learns about Yorkshire's vital role in aviation heritage. - Northumberland
E18NorthumberlandJonnie Irwin is house hunting in the Northumberland countryside with a couple wanting to escape busy urban life in Gateshead and who have a £500,000 budget to move three generations of the family into a new rural home that provides them with a peaceful quality of life. - Lake District
E25Lake DistrictAlistair 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. - Wiltshire
E27WiltshireNicki 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. - Somerset
E28SomersetJules 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. - Pembrokeshire
E29PembrokeshireJonnie 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. - New Forest
E30New ForestIn 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. - Northern Ireland
E33Northern IrelandNicki 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. - Dorset
E34DorsetJules 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. - North Yorkshire
E40North YorkshireGinny 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. - ShropshireE41
ShropshireJonnie 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. - Devon
E42DevonJules 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. - Norfolk
E43NorfolkJonnie 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. - South Wales
E44South WalesSonali 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. - Scottish Borders
E45Scottish BordersNicki 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. - Monmouthshire
E46MonmouthshireJules 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. - Argyll and ButeE47
Argyll and ButeJonnie 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. - Forest of Dean
E48Forest of DeanSonali 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. - Shropshire
E49ShropshireAlistair 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. - Lincolnshire
E50LincolnshireGinny 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. - Pembrokeshire
E51PembrokeshireJules 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. - Gloucestershire
E52GloucestershireNicki 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. - Cornwall
E53CornwallAlistair 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. - East Devon
E54East DevonJules 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. - West Yorkshire
E55West YorkshireNicki 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. - North Wales
E56North WalesSonali 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. - North Devon
E57North DevonJonnie 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. - Norfolk
E58NorfolkSonali 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. - North Cornwall
E60North CornwallSonali 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. - Lincolnshire
E63LincolnshireMargherita 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. - Gloucestershire
E64GloucestershireJules 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. - Norfolk
E65NorfolkNicki 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. - South Wales
E66South WalesMargherita 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. - Hampshire
E67HampshireJules 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. - Worcestershire
E68WorcestershireNicki 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. - East Midlands
E69East MidlandsMargherita 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. - Herefordshire
E70HerefordshireJules 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.
