Can you visit the Downton Abbey filming locations?

Yes, these are real, visitable places. Each location below comes with the scene, an exact point on the map, and how to get there.

Series · 2010-2015 · Drama · History

Where was Downton Abbey filmed?

An aristocratic family and the servants who run their estate navigate love, scandal and a changing century in the years around the First World War. The house at its centre is the genuine Highclere Castle, and the village scenes were shot in a single Oxfordshire hamlet, so the whole world of the show is a real, visitable one.

2 locations across 2 destinations

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Hampshire, England

1 spot

building·Hampshire

Highclere Castle

The honey-stoned Jacobean house and its sweeping grounds are Downton Abbey itself, the saloon, library and bedrooms serving as the family's real interiors across every series.

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Cotswolds, England

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street·Cotswolds

Bampton

This quiet Oxfordshire village is Downton's village, its church and former grammar school standing in for the local cottage hospital and the streets the family walks through.

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Good to know

Where was Downton Abbey filmed?: Downton Abbey was filmed in Hampshire, Cotswolds.
Can you visit the Downton Abbey filming locations?: Yes, these are real, visitable places. Each location below comes with the scene, an exact point on the map, and how to get there.