Country estate

The former home of property magnate Sir Robert McAlpine has come to the market – and it's a perfect spot that would make the country ideal estate.

See David and Victoria's new English country home.

The English manor house, called Rookwoods, comes with a pool, equestrian facilities and a tennis court

The perfect home if you REALLY love your commute. A 77-acre cliffside estate with what is thought to be one of the longest driveways in England has come to the market for £7 million (US$8.73 million). Glenthorne House, in the South West of the country, is what sits at the end of the 2.5-mile-long zig-zagging driveway that took almost a year to build.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, who is worth £345m, had opposed an application to register part of his massive Hertfordshire estate as common so the public could access the grounds.

Live like your favorite TV characters (but with better heating and plumbing)

The Academy Award winning director found the ideal residence in the western part of the country near Galway: a one-hundred-and-ten-acre estate called St. Clerans

Elmestree House Estate, situated next to Prince Charles' Gloucestershire home, Highgrove, has just come on the market for the first time since 1949.

Dinmore Manor is a 12th-century property that has evolved over hundreds of years to become one of Britain's most spectacular and beautiful estates. Penny Churchill tells its remarkable story.