For film and TV lovers

Cobbled streets, rolling hills and Tudor mansions that we care for have been backdrops to countless film and TV shows. Featuring in costume dramas, fantasy worlds and fairy tales, you'll have seen stars performing dramatic scenes in many of our houses, castles and landscapes.

Lighting rigged up outside Montacute House, Somerset, during filming for the 2015 BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall — It takes a lot of lighting to make a TV set work

Osterley Park transformed for ITV's Vanity Fair

It is 1815 and the Battle of Waterloo looms on the horizon. With soldiers in red and hearts on the line, this can only be Vanity Fair. Find out how Osterley Park was transformed as a location for ITV's latest blockbuster.

Go behind the scenes at Vanity Fair

Presenter Alan Titchmarsh filming 'Secrets of the National Trust' at Kingston Lacy, Dorset

Secrets of the National Trust with Alan Titchmarsh returns

We’re back for part two of the second series of Channel 5’s Secrets of the National Trust with Alan Titchmarsh. In the penultimate episode, Alan unearths the story of William John Bankes, an Egyptologist who filled his family mansion with treasures while exiled abroad, but never got to see the home he lovingly created.

Check out the next episode

Tredegar House, Wales was transformed into northern France during the First World War

Tredegar House transformed into army garrison for Journey’s End

One hundred years on from the end of the First World War, Tredegar house in Wales was the film location for the latest adaptation of Journey's End, which was released in February 2018.

Game of Thrones

The hit series Game of Thrones has been filmed at many of our places. Discover which have formed the backdrop for the award-winning drama.

The Cellarium at Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire

Our places in explosive BBC series Gunpowder

Over 400 years after it took place, the legendary Gunpowder Plot still looms large every November. In 2017, the BBC adapted the story for TV, and some of our places had starring roles in the series. You can also find out more about our houses which were connected to the actual plot, all those centuries ago.

Shooting Poldark on the North Cornish coast

Poldark: behind the scenes

Many of our coastal places in Cornwall have taken centre stage in the BBC's adaptation of Poldark. Here's the inside knowledge on where to go to see the locations for yourself.