Movies or TV programmes using British and Irish stately homes as filming locations, screened for the first time this month (in airing date order):
Country House Rescue TV episode 2.13 – Series 1 Revisited, Pentillie Castle (8pm, 1 Sep).
Country House Rescue TV episode 2.14 – Series 1 Revisited, Elmore Court (8pm, 8 Sep).
Jane Eyre (cinema)
Filmed in Derbyshire, England, at Haddon Hall (as in 2006, 1996), Wingfield Manor & Chatsworth; Broughton Castle in Oxfordshire
and Wrotham Park in Hertfordshire. Released 9 September (UK).
The Queen’s Palaces TV episode 1 – Buckingham Palace with F Bruce (BBC1, 9pm, 12 Sep).
Downton Abbey (TV Drama Series 2)
8 episodes written by Lord Julian Fellowes, and filmed at
Highclere Castle, Hampshire, England
ITV1, Sunday, 18 & 25 Sep, 9-10.15 pm.
The Queen’s Palaces TV episode 2 – Windsor Castle with F Bruce (BBC1, 9pm, 19 Sep).
The Body Farm TV episode 2 – Arley Hall, Cheshire (BBC1, 9-10pm, Tues 20 Sep).
Antiques Roadshow TV episode 34.2 – Charlecote Park, Part 1 (BBC1, 8pm, 25 Sep).
The Queen’s Palaces TV episode 3 – Palace of Holyroodhouse, Bruce (BBC1, 9pm, 26 Sep).
The Homestead in Spondon Derbyshire is clearly a village house in a village that is now a suburb of Derby, rather than a town house.
Thanks Philip, that’s a fair point, although I was only trying to distinguish it from the country houses. When it was built, it was probably a village house, but with the spreading town/city of Derby, it’s getting harder to say whether Spondon is still a separate village or is absorbed into the overall town/city of Derby (Spondon is now an electoral ward in Derby). It depends on who you ask, your definition of a village versus a town, and whether you are talking about now or in the past. To avoid controversy or confusion, I have removed the ‘townhouse’ phrase from the Houses post.