The BEST episodes of Escape to the Country season 18
Every episode of Escape to the Country season 18, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Escape to the Country season 18!
A series which helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country. The current presenting team is Alistair Appleton, Nicki Chapman, Jules Hudson, Sonali Shah, Jonnie Irwin, Margherita Taylor, Ginny Buckley, and Steve Brown. Former presenters include Catherine Gee, Aled Jones, Denise Nurse, Nick Page, and Melissa Porter.
#1 - 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.
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#2 - 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.
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#3 - Worcestershire
Season 18 - Episode 68 - Aired 10/2/2018
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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#4 - 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.
#5 - Gloucestershire
Season 18 - Episode 64 - Aired 9/18/2018
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.
#6 - Shropshire
Season 18 - Episode 62 - Aired 9/11/2018
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. While in the county, Jules heads into the Shropshire Hills and learns an unusual conservation method for keeping acres of bracken at bay, as well as how landscape art is making its mark here.
#7 - Warwickshire
Season 18 - Episode 61 - Aired 9/10/2018
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. While in the county, Sonali visits a family-run pottery business and tries her hand at making traditional pots from local clay.
#8 - Cornwall
Season 18 - Episode 53 - Aired 6/5/2018
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.
#9 - Lincolnshire
Season 18 - Episode 50 - Aired 5/8/2018
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.
#10 - Shropshire
Season 18 - Episode 49 - Aired 5/1/2018
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.
#11 - Monmouthshire
Season 18 - Episode 46 - Aired 4/23/2018
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.
#12 - South Wales
Season 18 - Episode 44 - Aired 4/10/2018
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.
#13 - Worcestershire
Season 18 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/14/2017
Nicki Chapman is in rural Worcestershire helping a couple who have £450,000 to realise their dream of raising their young family in the countryside. Along the way, Nicki joins the volunteers of the Severn Valley Railway, whose passion and dedication has helped keep this historic steam railway line running for over 50 years.
#14 - Devon
Season 18 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/1/2017
Margherita Taylor is helping a couple with a £300,000 budget find a country property which gives them community on their doorstep and a crash pad for their grandchildren to stay during the holidays. Margherita also meets a Devon stovemaker and finds out the practical and environmental benefits of this popular country home interior feature.
#15 - Dorset
Season 18 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/8/2017
Jules Hudson is in the Dorset countryside with a couple who have an £800,000 budget to buy their first home together. While in the county, Jules finds out how Dorset's ancient hedgerows at Kingcombe provide vital natural 'motorways' for wildlife, and he helps plant new specimens alongside some that date back a thousand years.
#16 - 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.
#17 - Somerset
Season 18 - Episode 28 - Aired 1/30/2018
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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - South Wales
Season 18 - Episode 66 - Aired 9/25/2018
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.
#20 - Pembrokeshire
Season 18 - Episode 29 - Aired 2/5/2018
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.
#21 - Wye Valley
Season 18 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/2017
Jonnie Irwin's property search is in the Wye Valley, where he helps an entrepreneurial couple with a £650,000 budget find a dream home which allows them to build a rural business. Along the way he visits the UK's first solar aquaponics greenhouse and discovers how 21st-century technology there could be the sustainable solution to growing enough food to solve the world's food shortage.
#22 - Devon
Season 18 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/2017
In Devon, the pressure is on for Margherita Taylor as she helps a hardworking house buyer with a £300,000 budget and a tight deadline to relocate before the new job starts. While in the Devon countryside, Margherita visits the Pebblebed vineyards during the grape harvest and sees how commitment and community involvement have been winning ingredients in helping put English wines on the map.
#23 - West Yorkshire
Season 18 - Episode 55 - Aired 6/12/2018
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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - Herefordshire
Season 18 - Episode 70 - Aired 10/9/2018
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.