Highclere Castle 10 STATELY LOCATIONS m Belvoir Castle
about American heiresses who came here and married the aristocracy in the 1880s. What happened to them? And once I’d started to imagine a character...” So it began, and so it will continue. With another series
in production we may yet see Highclere becoming as publicly prominent as the film location for Brideshead Revisited, Castle Howard, in North Yorkshire. Lord Carnarvon is optimistic. “That would be lovely.
We hope to display archives about Highclere staff and employees from Edwardian times and, of course, our guides will be well informed.” The castle will open for the season at Easter. Let’s leave the last word to Maggie Smith, described by
his Lordship as the Grand Lady of the period genre. She might have been speaking for everyone involved in the production when, prior to shooting a scene in Highclere, “There is nowhere,” she remarked, “I would rather be.”
Downton Abbey, Series One, shown in the UK Sept-Nov 2010 on ITV, is currently showing on Masterpiece, WGBH 2 and PBS stations nationwide in the US, and is available to view in advance on
www.wgbh.org. Downton Abbey Series One DVD boxsets are now on sale at all major retailers, distributed by NBC Universal. Highclere Castle, Highclere Park, Newbury RG20 9RN; tel: (01635) 253210;
www.highclerecastle.co.uk. Open from Easter, visit the website for detailed opening dates and times.
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Above: The Library, which houses more than 5,650 books, the earliest dating back to the 16th century
t Belvoir Castle, Grantham, Leicestershire. The Young Victoria was filmed here in 2009. Rooms and grounds masqueraded as Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle.. Tel: (01476) 871002;
www.belvoircastle.com. t Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire. The birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill, Blenheim saw carriages pulling into shot before the regal elegance of its Great Court, standing in for that of Buckingham Palace in The Young Victoria. Tel: 0800 849 6500;
www.blenheimpalace.com. t Burghley House, Stamford, Lincolnshire, posed as the home of John Dee, Queen Elizabeth I’s astrologer, in the 2007 feature film Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Tel: (01780) 752451;
www.burghley.co.uk. t Chatsworth House, Bakewell, Derbyshire. Appeared in The Duchess with Keira Knightly (2008) as home to the Devonshire family – itself! Also featured as Mr. Darcy’s Pemberley in the 2005 film of Pride and Prejudice. In 2009, it took on a more gloomy aspect, shrouded with weeds for a remake of The Wolfman. Tel: (01246) 565300;
www.chatsworth.org. t Haddon Hall, Bakewell, Derbyshire. Interiors were used in the 2005 film of Pride and Prejudice. It also became Mr Rochester’s Thornfield in the BBC TV drama serial Jane Eyre (2006); the Boleyn family seat in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008); and was one location used in Elizabeth (1998) starring Cate Blanchett. Tel: (01629) 812855;
www.haddonhall.co.uk. t Ham House, Richmond-upon- Thames, Surrey. On the Thames at Richmond Park, its sumptuous
Hatfield House
gardens and luscious interiors became Kensington Palace in The Young Victoria. Tel: (020) 8940 1950;
www.nationaltrust.org.uk. t Hatfield House, Hatfield, Hertfordshire. A spectacular Jacobean House, which depicted Chartley Hall, Queen Mary’s private dwelling, in Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Tel: (01707) 287010;
www.hatfield-house.co.uk. t Holkham Hall, North Norfolk. Holkham provided some aspects of the Devonshires' Bath Villa in The Duchess, while the library and the rear elevation outside became Georgiana’s family home at Althorp. Tel: (01328) 710227;
www.holkham.co.uk.
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t Kedleston Hall, Quarndon, Derbyshire. Its undercroft appeared in flashbacks to Mr Rochester’s youth in the BBC’s Jane Eyre, and in 2007, it welcomed Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent for the filming of And When Did You Last See Your Father? It also featured in The Duchess. Tel: (01332) 842191;
www.nationaltrust.org.uk. t Osterley Park, Isleworth, Middlesex. The polished timbers of its Long Gallery were featured as Buckingham Palace in the film The Young Victoria. Tel: (020) 8232 5050;
www.nationaltrust.org.uk. t Sudbury Hall, Ashbourne, Derbyshire. Follow in the footsteps of Colin Firth as Mr Darcy down the Long Gallery which portrayed Pemberley in the BBC series of Pride and Prejudice (1995). Tel: (01283) 585305;
www.nationaltrust.org.uk.
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