Escape to the Country

Alistair Appleton helps a buyer from Guernsey find her perfect party property in the countryside. Alistair also drops in on Jules Hudson to discuss what the future holds for the rural housing market.

With their current house bursting at the seams, a couple with two young sons enlist Sonali Shah to help them spend their £450,000 budget on a new home in the Somerset countryside.

Three generations of the same family ask Jules Hudson to help them move from London to Buckinghamshire, a county famous for its chair-making heritage.

A young, water-loving couple are looking to escape to Cornwall with their young daughter. They have £620,000 to spend on their new Cornish home. Also featuring a sailing school.

Sonali Shah helps a young couple who want to swap town life in Halifax for country life in the wonderful surroundings of North Yorkshire.

Jules Hudson is in the Welsh county of Powys with a couple whose property wish list includes an annexe for their parents.

Nicki Chapman helps a couple from south London search for their dream home in the Devon countryside. She also takes them to Appledore to meet RNLI volunteers.

Two sisters want to combine their resources in Somerset to find a secluded house that has enough land to start their own music festival.

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.

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.

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.

It’s a first for Escape to the Country as Nicki Chapman heads to glorious Guernsey to help find a fabulous family home for a young couple and their three children.

In Ayrshire, Jonnie Irwin helps a retired couple reconnect with their Scottish roots. Jonnie also learns about an ancient technique used to produce salt from sea water.

In West Yorkshire, Steve Brown meets an artist who is looking to leave London to realise her ambition of living in the countryside.

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.

Denise Nurse helps a couple with four children navigate Derbyshire’s rural housing market in search of the perfect family home.

It’s an island escape today, as Jules Hudson helps a couple from a town in Cheshire to find their dream home on Anglesey.

After 23 years living in Canada, today’s buyer is returning to the UK for good. She is looking to make her rural escape to Devon, but there’s a catch - she has never been to the county before.

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.

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.

Denise Nurse visits the coastal county of Cornwall, helping a couple to turn their favourite holiday destination into their permanent home.

Alistair Appleton guides one family, spread over four generations, to find two houses in one village. His mystery house promises to bring them closer together than they ever imagined.

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.

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.