The BEST episodes of Escape to the Country
Every episode of Escape to the Country ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Escape to the Country!
A series which helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country.
#1 - Somerset
Season 18 - Episode 39 - Aired 3/16/2018
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. While in the south west, Nicki visits Dunkeswell Aerodrome, a former RAF airbase which is now a civilian airfield, where she takes to the skies in a microlight and sees the countryside from a completely different perspective.
#2 - Somerset
Season 19 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/2018
Jules Hudson is on a property-hunting mission spanning Somerset and Devon's Exmoor National Park with a couple who have a £550,000 budget and a love of carpentry and the coast. Along the way, Jules visits the Wool Marketing Board's fleece-sorting depot in South Molton which grades and sells sheep wool from across the south west region, and which contributes to Britain's £35 million wool industry each year.
#3 - Shropshire
Season 19 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/2018
Ginny Buckley is in the Shropshire countryside to help a couple who have £425,000 to invest in a character home, and also visits the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford.
#4 - Monmouthshire
Season 19 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/2018
Nicki Chapman heads to the Monmouthshire countryside to help a couple who have a love of the outdoors and dogs as they aim to buy their first home together with their £700,000 budget. While in the county, Nicki heads into the woods and, under the watchful eye of an expert fungi forager, learns about the art of edible mushroom picking.
#5 - West Dorset
Season 19 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/2018
Margherita Taylor is on a house-hunting mission in the Dorset countryside, helping a couple with £500,000 find a character property with space for entertaining and a baby grand piano, as well as an outdoor setting to keep a keen gardener busy. Along the way, Margherita heads out to the oyster beds of Poole harbour to discover more about how they are farmed and harvested sustainably to meet popular demand.
#6 - Cheshire
Season 19 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/17/2018
Sonali Shah is house hunting with a couple who have a budget of £650,000 and want to quit the city to find a house with great entertaining potential in the Cheshire countryside. Sonali also delves into the region's manufacturing heritage at one of the country's best preserved textile mills from the Industrial Revolution.
#7 - Derbyshire
Season 19 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/2/2018
Sonali Shah is property hunting in the Derbyshire countryside with a couple who have a £450,000 budget and hopes that this move will transport them to a village with community spirit and a complete change of scenery. Away from the search, Sonali visits the factory of Royal Crown Derby and discovers how the porcelain industry here is a real hallmark of Britain's ceramic-making heritage.
#8 - Devon
Season 18 - Episode 42 - Aired 3/29/2018
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.
#9 - North Yorkshire
Season 18 - Episode 40 - Aired 3/27/2018
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.
#10 - Shropshire
Season 18 - Episode 41 - Aired 3/23/2018
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.
#11 - Yorkshire Dales
Season 19 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/2018
Margherita Taylor is rural property-shopping in the Yorkshire Dales with a retired head teacher who has £400,000 to invest in her leap to the country and has signed up her daughter to help her with the decision making. Away from a high-energy house hunt, Margherita discovers how one Dales company has recently been instrumental in reviving Britain's handmade piano heritage, an echo of production glory days during the 1920s.
#12 - Northumberland
Season 18 - Episode 38 - Aired 3/6/2018
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. While in the county, Alistair visits the Roman town of Corbridge along Hadrian's Wall, and gets up close to some of the thousands of artefacts that form the Corbridge Roman Hoard, which was unearthed during the 1960s.
#13 - Jurassic Coast
Season 18 - Episode 37 - Aired 3/5/2018
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. While in the area, Jonnie visits Britain's only thatched brewery which has been making ales for over 200 years, and learns from a family descendent how traditional brewing methods are still very much in use today.
#14 - Norfolk
Season 18 - Episode 36 - Aired 2/27/2018
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. While in the county, Sonali visits a pioneering dairy farm in North Norfolk, which has looked beyond everyday cheese-making and is also creating renewable energy from the dairy herd's waste.
#15 - Kent
Season 18 - Episode 35 - Aired 2/26/2018
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. While in the county, Nicki gains an insight into Kent's cricketing heritage by seeing the impressive craftsmanship involved in producing handmade cricket bats.
#16 - Dorset
Season 18 - Episode 34 - Aired 2/20/2018
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.
#17 - Northern Ireland
Season 18 - Episode 33 - Aired 2/19/2018
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.
#18 - Cotswolds
Season 18 - Episode 32 - Aired 2/13/2018
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. Along the way, Margherita visits Westonbirt, The National Arboretum where the annual arboricultural show is in full swing, and sees tree experts putting a range of impressive skills into action.
#19 - North Yorkshire
Season 18 - Episode 31 - Aired 2/12/2018
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.
#20 - Pembrokeshire
Season 18 - Episode 51 - Aired 5/9/2018
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.
#21 - North Cornwall
Season 18 - Episode 60 - Aired 9/4/2018
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.
#22 - North Yorkshire
Season 18 - Episode 59 - Aired 9/3/2018
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. While in the area, Jonnie gets a masterclass in building dry stone walls, a distinctive feature of this county's farming landscape.
#23 - Norfolk
Season 18 - Episode 58 - Aired 6/26/2018
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.
#24 - North Devon
Season 18 - Episode 57 - Aired 6/25/2018
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
#25 - North Wales
Season 18 - Episode 56 - Aired 6/21/2018
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.