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The Best National Trust and English Heritage Filming Locations
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items The National Trust and English Heritage caretakes seemingly endless amazing places and buildings across the UK. They care for many of the UKs oldest and most historically significant places.
Which also tends to be where they like to shoot movie and ...
For me, the only Pride and Prejudice movie I will acknowledge is obviously the 1995 version. This is, of course, the setting for Pemberley. Being here was completely surreal and amazing. Even if for some reason you are a not a fan of that adoption, t...
Lyme, Cheshire aka Pemberley
If you are a Game of Thrones fan, this is a must do.
The historic farmyard stood in for parts of Winterfell, including the archery range where the Stark children practised their skills.
There is of course the wider grounds which played host to Take...
Castle Ward │ Northern Ireland
1995 was my favourite year for Jane Austen adaptions!
This year saw the wonderful Sense and Sensibility version starring Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet as sisters Elinor and Marianne.
Montacute stood in as the country home of the Palmers, where Mar...
Montacute House, Somerset
The woodlands are definitely something to see here!
With acres of woodland, rolling downland and lush meadows it has played host to everything fromThe Dirty Dozen (1967);Maleficent (2014); Into the Woods (2015) and Les Misérables (2012).
There ar...
Ashridge Estate | Hertfordshire
If these walls could talk!
This 18th-century manor house was rescued from demolition in the 1950s and became the location for scenes such as the Netherfield ball in Pride and Prejudice (2005), much of Downton Abbey’s 2013 Christmas special when Basi...
Basildon Park, Berkshire
I have been here several times and loved it every one of those times. It feels timeless.
Scenes from Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (2023) featured the Bath Assembly Rooms. This Georgian building contains a ballroom and card room, and is where ...
Bath Assembly Rooms, Somerset
This casual Grade I listed French Renaissance-style country house in Buckinghamshire, England, built by a Baron stood in for Buckingham Palace in the 2006 film The Queen and also featured in the Bond movie Never Say Never Again. Just pick your genre!
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
This beautiful palace was a favourite retreat for Mary Queen of Scots. It also graced our screens in Season 2 of Outlander. It doubled as 1940s Inverness for Claire and Frank's honeymoon and featuring as the site of an apothecary in Season 2.
Falkland Palace, Falkland
Definitely grounds to explore ans ponder on.
The Victorian estate's unfinished mansion and surrounding grounds were used to film scenes of Prince Charles's miserable time at the Gordonstoun school in Season 2 of The Crown. I hope you will have a bet...
Woodchester Park, Gloucestershire
You will recognise this as the outside of the Bridgerton house. It also hosts an incredible gallery and museum collection. And borders onto Greenwich Park so you can enjoy one of the UKs most famous parks and the meridian line on the same day!
Ranger's House, Charlton
Dover Castle is wonderful to see in its own right. It is one of the UKs largest castles, and is linked back to the Iron Age (800BC!).
For movie buffs, there has beens lots filmed there including Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) as a Hydra base tunnel e...
Dover Castle, Kent
More Bridgerton! Wrest Park set hearts aflutter during Season 2's bee sting scene, and was the Aubrey Hall Orangery. I Season 3, it was the Fuller family's home.
Wrest Park, Bedfordshire
Eltham palace has been used in any number of films including:
The Crown (2016) where it was used for scenes depicting the Queen's private quarters on the Royal Yacht Britannia and the HMS Queen Mary.
Wonka (2024): The palace's interiors were used ...
Eltham Palace, Geenwich
Dido Elizabeth Belle lived here so it's only right that in 2013 when they made Belle, this location was used.
It also started in Notting Hill as the location for Anna Scott's filming shoot where she is starring in a Henry James.
Kenwood, Hampstead
This 7th century monastery is famously the arriving place of Dracula to the UK. The Abbey is now essentially a ruin on a cliff top overhanging the town and it is as atmospheric as one could hope.
You will not be surprised to know it was used in the ...
Whitby Abbey, North Yorkshire