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Seven real-life ghost stories, shared by the readers of Country Life

Over the course of Country Life's 120-year history, dozens of readers have shared their tales of ghosts. Here we've picked out seven of the most fascinating.

A spectacular renovation opportunity in Surrey with romantic sweeping gardens and a magical stilted tree house

Buyers looking for a project will be delighted to stumble across Drummond House and the opportunity it presents to create a really special home surrounded by mesmerising gardens.

Baughurst House, the 'absolute wreck untouched for 60 years', now immaculate and for sale, complete with party barn and petanque pitch

Baughurst House is a sumptuously-restored country house on the Hampshire/Berkshire border, all so beautifully done as to put any buyer's mind at peace. Penny Churchill tells more.

A wonderful development in Richmond Hill that offers buyers the chance to live in a truly unique building, with gym and spa facilities akin to a five-star hotel

The 'rarely available' chance to live in a double apartment in the highly sought after Star & Garter House is an opportunity not to miss — and the elegant building with show stopping gym and leisure facilities is sure to grab attention.

Five extraordinary homes for sale across the world, as seen in Country Life

If you're looking for an overseas home to escape from the chill of the season in Britain, we've picked out some wonderful homes across the world.

A country house in Devon that's part-castle, part-new build, with beautiful Mediterranean-style gardens and space to land your helicopter

If a castle and a new-build were to have a love child, the result would probably look something like The Hunting Lodge, a spacious family home tucked into a private corner of Devon where you can soak up the surrounding countryside and revel in the light and spacious interiors and expansive gardens.

16 wonderful country houses for sale, as seen in Country Life

From under £700,000 to over £18,000,000, we take a look at some of the finest homes to appear in Country Life in the past week or so.

A 14-bedroom country house at the heart of a New Forest estate with 1,000 years of history, with ice house, tennis court and its own cricket pitch

Just a couple of miles from Lymington is Efford Park, a magnificent house with an extraordinarily chequered history that stretches back centuries. Today, it's seeking a new owner.

An incredibly rare chance to buy your own Iron Age hillfort with 'significant archaeological, conservational and ecological value'

Your eyes do not deceive you. Upon first glance, the ancient monument known as Hembury Fort Cross could well be mistaken as just a verdant hilly slope coated in trees. However, there's a lot more to it than first meets the eye.

Country house lifestyle in a miniature castle near Bath as this £650,000 apartment in Grade II-listed Battlefields House comes up for sale

Be the King or Queen of your castle in this stunning apartment in the renovated Battlefields House which is flooded with period features and buckets of charm.

A glorious, rolling Hampshire estate with grounds designed by Capability Brown, on the market for the first time in three-quarters of a century

Wilverley Park offers the chance to buy an idyllic slice of England, a place where one of our greatest landscapers left his mark. Penny Churchill takes a look.

'One of the finest and largest apartments in Newcastle' has come up for sale in a beautifully-converted building in the heart of Jesmond

This plush duplex apartment is situated on a private road with beautiful landscape gardens, and offers quiet luxury living in the heart of one of the regions most popular suburbs.

Rossley Manor, the Cotswolds country house and estate that became a country club, now a house once more and seeking a new owner

Penny Churchill takes a look at Rossley Manor, a beautiful estate in the Dodswell Valley near Cheltenham.

Huge Grant's former South Kensington penthouse is up for sale for £7.95 million — and you'd be hard pressed to find a more glamorous property

I'm just a girl, standing in front of a 3,000 sq ft London penthouse, asking it to please let me in.

Best country houses for sale this week

Catch up on the best country houses for sale this week that have come to the market via Country Life.

An inspiring and recently renovated period town house in London's Old Chelsea for sale at £8.95 million

21 Old Church Street is everything you would expect a renovated London property to be — stylish, modern and expertly finished but with all the grace and charm that comes with a period property.

The 'biggest house in Kensington & Chelsea' is for sale, and it's a classic country mansion transported into SW1... with a £35 million price tag

In one of Knightsbridge's most prestigious postcodes is Stuart House — a towering mansion in Cadogan Square that is on the market for the first time in 22 years.

A hidden gem that's one of the prettiest country houses in Northumberland, set in 24 glorious acres of woodland gardens

Penny Churchill takes a look at the truly delightful Milbourne Hall.

A riverside home located on the edge of the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty where the River Avon flows through the garden

Buyers searching for the perfect riverside home without being cast-away into the back end of rural nowhere can sigh a sight of relief with Lothlorien.

Kirkby Hall, a sprawling Georgian house for sale with a showstopping entrance hall and a grand, 46ft drawing room

Country houses such as Kirkby Hall are often shorn of the vast estates of which they were once the beating heart, but as Penny Churchill reports, they often retain the original garden settings surrounded by glorious unspoilt countryside.