![]() Bucknall was influenced by the Frenchman Viollet le Duc – it’s one of a handful of buildings in the UK to emulate le Duc. Most of Woodchester was designed by a local architect Benjamin Bucknall for William Leigh, the son of a Liverpool Merchant. “Being unfinished, they have scope to dress the building as they wish.” “It's liked by film companies because it's flexible,” says Davenport. She suggests a visit to Woodchester Mansion, which stood in for Gordonstoun School in the programme’s first series.ĭr Liz Davenport, trustee and historian at the Gloucestershire house, points out that it also featured in the BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. ![]() Should you be rewatching The Crown – satiating your interest following the release of filming shots from the new season, including Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana – then you might recognise one of Howard’s recommended spots. Now that rules have eased, many grand ballrooms and gilded staircases showcased on your living room screen, have reopened to the public. Some popular, film-friendly buildings were mothballed, others whose owners had sworn off filming, became interested as their main income streams were diminished as a result of the pandemic. “During Covid, access to period locations was in flux,” she explains. “My tip to find under-the-radar locations or points of interest worth visiting is to really get to know your local area or an area you’re visiting by researching from a fresh perspective as if you've never visited – it’s amazing how often you take crew somewhere on their doorstep and they never knew it existed.”Ģ2 Locations Ltd has seen an uptick in requests for historic locations in the last few years with period dramas en vogue. “It is easy to forget how rich the UK is with its surviving architecture as we are already immersed and sometimes unaware of the local history, age or the period of buildings and points of interest we encounter daily,” Howard says. Perhaps, suggests Cécile Howard, an assistant location manager at 22 Locations Ltd, a London-based team of location managers and scouts, we should try thinking like a location scout when planning our next domestic break. We can track down these grand mansions, acres of parkland and characterful city streets before they become mainstream. Yet British holidaymakers have a huge advantage. Almost a third of potential visitors to the UK are keen to visit locations used in filming and seen-on-screen,” says Patricia Yates, Visit Britain’s deputy chief executive. “ research shows that films and TV are powerful motivators for travel. And without doubt, they will be raring to lap up such architecture as they trickle back to British shores. An open area in the upper reaches of the Varkid Ramparts holds a hatch with a switch, and accessing this completes the mission.In 2019, inbound tourists spent an estimated £892.6 million on film-related tourism in the UK. The Varkid Ramparts above is an area predominantly populated with spiderants, plus the occasional varkid. Once four switches have been activated, ascension to the top of the facility is gained by way of an external service elevator between the Nether Hive and Rumbling Shore. ![]()
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