After exploring the grandiose state rooms, staircases, and cellars, guests will enjoy traditional finger sandwiches and scones in the Coach House Tea Room, prepared by the castle’s head chef. Throughout September and October 2019, a special “ Real Lives and Film Sets” guided tour will allow small groups of up to 20 visitors to nose around the castle rooms where memorable Downton Abbey scenes were shot, such as the central salon, where characters from the show often met to socialize. This stately 19th-century manor-which has been the seat of the real-life Earl of Carnarvon for more than two centuries-was little changed for scenes in the show and upcoming feature film. Roam the royal grounds at Highclere CastleĪ vast majority of filming for Downton Abbey took place at Highclere Castle, a Gothic-style palace in the bucolic county of Berkshire, England (about 90 minutes by car from London). Here are a few of the Downton Abbey filming locations in England where you can live like a lord or a lady-even if just for the day.
While the show’s namesake countryside estate only exists in this fictional story, you can visit some of the settings you see onscreen. This year, the Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning story is coming to cinema screens with one final installment: a feature-length film, which hits U.S.
From 2010 through 2015, the historical period drama aired six seasons on PBS (all of which can now be streamed on PBS Passport).
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The hit television series Downton Abbey depicts the fictional lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their estate employees during the post-Edwardian era in England.