The BEST episodes of Escape to the Country season 19
Every episode of Escape to the Country season 19, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Escape to the Country season 19!
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 - Devon
Season 19 - Episode 62 - Aired 11/26/2019
Today's house hunt takes Nicki Chapman to the Devon countryside with a £450,000 budget, as she helps a buyer moving on to a new, happier life chapter with her young son. Away from important property decisions, Nicki heads to the seaside town of Dawlish, where she joins in the local fun at the carnival that the community works hard to organise every year.
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#2 - Norfolk
Season 19 - Episode 63 - Aired 11/27/2019
Jules Hudson is rural property hunting in Norfolk with a couple of retired accountants who want to invest their £550,000 budget in a character home that gives them countryside and community on their doorstep. Along the way, Jules discovers how boat building is going strong in Wells-next-the-Sea before trying his hand at sailing a traditional yacht off the Norfolk coast.
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#3 - 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.
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#4 - Shropshire
Season 19 - Episode 36 - Aired 4/15/2019
Nicki Chapman is on a house-hunting mission in the Shropshire countryside, balancing the dreams of a father who has a £475,000 budget and wants to head for the hills, while his daughter wants him to live closer to a community. Nicki also heads to Wenlock and tries her inexperienced hand at pot-throwing and the Japanese art of raku, a pot-firing technique that produces some dramatic results.
#5 - Aberdeenshire
Season 19 - Episode 68 - Aired 1/20/2020
Sonali Shah is on a house hunt with a deadline in Aberdeenshire, as her Anglo-Icelandic house buyers need to relocate from Reykjavik to the Scottish countryside on their £380,000 budget before their daughter starts university in the region. Sonali also meets a family whose veganic farm produce has grown into a successful local box scheme, highlighting the increasing demand for vegan-friendly food in the UK.
#6 - Herefordshire
Season 19 - Episode 67 - Aired 12/10/2019
Jules Hudson is in Herefordshire on a mission to help a self-confessed workaholic osteopath with a £450,000 budget find a country retreat that gives her peace and inspiration to write and relax. While the house hunt hots up, Jules also visits an archaeological dig at Dorstone Hill, which has broken new ground in what is known about how our Neolithic ancestors lived.
#7 - North Wales
Season 19 - Episode 61 - Aired 11/5/2019
Jonnie Irwin is on a house hunting expedition in north Wales with a couple who have a £300,000 budget and a wish list including a craft room and community close by. Jonnie also can’t resist trying out Snowdonia’s latest outdoor activity, catching a wave at the world’s first artificial surf lagoon.
#8 - Norfolk
Season 19 - Episode 59 - Aired 10/29/2019
Nicki Chapman has the tough, but rewarding task of finding the perfect country home for a house hunter and his wife who have a £450 000 budget to escape suburban Surrey and the home he has lived in for more than 60 years. The house hunt may come up roses in more ways than one as Nicki also gets to grips with all things horticultural when she’s invited to an exquisite garden for tea, cake and a spot of pruning just before its grand open day.
#9 - Somerset
Season 19 - Episode 58 - Aired 10/28/2019
Ginny Buckley is in Somerset helping a couple with a £310,000 budget find a country home where character charm and a practical utility room are top of the wish list. Along the way, Ginny heads into the Somerset Levels to see how bird wildlife efforts have brought the endangered crane back from near extinction.
#10 - Ayrshire
Season 19 - Episode 50 - Aired 9/2/2019
Nicki Chapman is on an emotional house hunt, helping a couple fulfill a long-held dream of moving to the Scottish countryside of Ayrshire. Alongside a selection of the region's best properties that a budget of £450,000 can buy, Nicki also pays a visit to the 18th-century Dumfries House, home to one of the finest collections of furniture in the world.
#11 - Suffolk
Season 19 - Episode 48 - Aired 5/27/2019
Jules Hudson is in Suffolk on a grand property search with a couple hot-footing it from the other side of the world to set down roots in the British countryside for their £900,000 budget. While in the county, Jules meets a dynamic dairy farming family whose customers are queuing up to buy their fresh milk straight from the farm's vending machine.
#12 - Dorset
Season 19 - Episode 37 - Aired 4/16/2019
Alistair Appleton is in Dorset with a pair of teachers who have a £550,000 budget to find a country home where they can raise their young daughters. Away from houses, Alistair visits a family of entrepreneurial dairy farmers who produce a unique alcoholic spirit made entirely from milk.
#13 - North Yorkshire
Season 19 - Episode 30 - Aired 3/25/2019
Alistair Appleton accompanies a couple on a North Yorkshire house hunt. They are calling time on running a guest house in the city and have a £650 000 budget to find a rural family home with business potential. Whilst in the county, Alistair also pays a visit to a heritage train line and helps the team to get their impressive locomotives fired up for the start of the tourist season.
#14 - Gloucestershire
Season 19 - Episode 29 - Aired 3/19/2019
Jonnie Irwin reviews a range of Gloucestershire country properties as he helps a green-fingered couple armed with an £800,000 budget find their perfect retreat with plenty of space to enjoy their hobbies. While in the county, Jonnie heads to Berkeley Castle and hears intriguing and murderous tales from owner Charles Berkeley, whose family has lived here for almost 900 years.
#15 - Worcestershire
Season 19 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/13/2019
Jonnie Irwin goes house hunting with couple who have a healthy £900,000 budget and want to start a new life closer to loved ones in the Worcestershire countryside. Jonnie also visits brine springs at Droitwich Spa to meet a family breathing new life into the region's salt heritage for the first time in a century.
#16 - Devon
Season 19 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/4/2019
Sonali Shah goes property shopping in rural Devon with a couple who have a £350,000 budget and high hopes of finding a country home that has a workshop for him and an art studio for her. While in the county, Sonali joins a family of wheelwrights dedicated to preserving the dying craft and responsible for repairing the wooden wheels on the Queen's carriages.
#17 - Welsh Borders
Season 19 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/22/2019
Alistair Appleton visits the Welsh borders to help a couple who have a healthy budget of £775,000 to find a countryside home to raise their young son and establish a glamping retreat business. Alistair also finds himself in a forest of fruit trees when he visits a perry and cider farm to find out about the region's drinks-making heritage.
#18 - Somerset
Season 19 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/2018
Nicki Chapman scours Somerset's rural property market with a fun-loving couple who have a £400,000 budget and a desire to quit living in a Surrey commuter town to free up more time for their hobbies in their new country home. Along the way, Nicki discovers the science of how bacteria are a vital part in the process of making original Cheddar cheese
#19 - Peak District
Season 19 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/2018
Jules Hudson heads to the Peak District with an expat couple returning from the Netherlands to their family roots and want their generous £1.5 million budget to provide comfortable accommodation for their visiting mothers. While in the region, Jules stops off in Edale to meet a professional wooden spoon carver who has inherited her father's award-winning passion and talent for creating handcrafted wooden design pieces.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - Warwickshire
Season 19 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/29/2019
Alistair Appleton travels to the Warwickshire countryside to help a couple with a £600,000 budget finds a rural home for them and their two young daughters. While in the region, Alistair visits one of the country's last surviving water mills still running commercially and meets a miller harnessing the natural power of the River Avon to produce his flour.
#23 - Shropshire
Season 19 - Episode 57 - Aired 10/1/2019
Sonali Shah is in Shropshire with a garlic specialist and his Russian wife, who want to establish a new business that taps into the county’s thriving food scene, but not before securing their dream family home in the country on a £550,000 budget. While in the county, Sonali gets in tune with the region’s melodic heritage when she learns about the expert craft of harp-making.
#24 - Devon
Season 19 - Episode 47 - Aired 5/21/2019
Nicki Chapman is in Devon on a house hunting mission with a professional singer who has a £670,000 budget to buy a country home that hits the right note. She has brought her trusted retired stage manager friend for support. Away from the high drama of the property search, Nicki heads into Dartmoor National Park and meets the craft makers who are putting the area on the map as a creative hotspot.
#25 - Hampshire
Season 19 - Episode 40 - Aired 4/29/2019
Nicki Chapman heads to rural Hampshire to help a couple with £700,000 in their pocket find a permanent country home where they can finally kick back and relax after a life of relocating because of work. As a keen rider, Nicki also meets a master saddler and her daughter who are key to the survival of this traditional craft, and then takes the reins and tries riding side-saddle for the very first time.