Love“ Bridgerton”? Here are five filming locations you can visit in real life

These stunning locales from the hit Netflix series are open to the public, dates and times permitting.

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Since the burning Bridgerton question on everyone’s mind has been “Which dazzling filming locations and stately homes from the show can I visit in real life?,” here’s a selection of five enchanting places across the U.K. where the hit Netflix series has been filmed — all of which you can actually tour.

Created by Chris Van Dusen for Shondaland and adapted from Julia Quinn’s bestselling novels, the delightful concoction of Downton Abbey and Gossip Girl is now in its third season, still following the trials, tribulations, and oh-so-fancy outings of the Bridgerton and Featherington families as they ball-hop across the colorful social seasons of early 19th century London. So let’s slip into something lavishly majestic and tour the stomping grounds of Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor); Simon Basset, the Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page); Lady Danbury (Adjoa Andoh); Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan); and Queen Charlotte (Golda Rosheuvel), among other Bridgerton personalities.

(Hopefully, we’ll hide from the eyes and ears of the ever-observant Lady Whistledown.)

Ranger’s House (London, England)

Serving as the exterior of the elegant Bridgerton family residence where Lady Bridgerton lives with her eight daughters and sons, Ranger’s House — a graceful villa built in 1723 — is one of the few London-based locations used in the series. A stately Georgian art museum located by Greenwich Park and Blackheath, Ranger’s House is the permanent home of the famous Wernher Collection, featuring art curated by 19th-century businessman Sir Julius Wernher.

Open on select days (with a discount for advance bookings) and available to rent for private events like weddings, the picturesque house includes more than 700 artworks — among them jewelry, Renaissance paintings, medieval sculptures, and oil works from the Dutch Golden Age. One thing you won’t see outside the Ranger’s House, however, is the wisteria that gloriously decorates the property’s welcoming façade in the series. Production reportedly added that detail to give the lovely house an even lovelier appeal (and to enhance the show’s vibrant color scheme).

While the real house’s past is touched by numerous noble and royal residents, its Bridgerton presence is similarly exciting. Take the season 3 premiere when Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) returns home from abroad, with numerous lady suitors fawning over him while Penelope watches from afar. Can you imagine a finer backdrop to this dreamy scene than the Ranger’s House?

Related: A guide to the Bridgerton cast, from seasons 1 to 3

Hatfield House (Hertfordshire, England)

Many locations are used to portray the interiors of the Featherington residence, and the lavish, stately Hatfield House is one of them. It’s a charming locale with dazzling aesthetics that are in sync with the Featherington family’s taste for showy prints and happy shades of citrusy greens and yellows.

If Hatfield House looks familiar to your eyes beyond Bridgerton, that’s because the location has been a perennial film and TV favorite. Its appearances range from Batman Begins (2005), The King’s Speech (2010), and The Crown (2016–2023), to The Favourite (2018), Enola Holmes (2020), and the recent Alfred Hitchcock remake Rebecca (2020), where Hatfield House was one of the six residences used to create the infamous estate, Manderley.

Built in 1611 by Robert Cecil (the 1st Earl of Salisbury) in the Jacobean style of the era while “adjoining the site of the Old Palace of Hatfield,” the house includes many examples of the period’s craftsmanship, along with a famous Grand Staircase and a private chapel decorated with a rare stained glass window. One part of Hatfield House’s storied legacy is that it was once the accommodation of Queen Elizabeth I, and later of the Cecils’ descendants for hundreds of years. Today, the house and its surrounding gardens are open to the public for visits on select days and are occupied by the 7th Marquess and Marchioness of Salisbury.

And let’s not forget, it’s also the home of Penelope Featherington as she sits and reads in the drawing room and sharpens her writing skills elsewhere around the property.

No. 1 Royal Crescent (Somerset, England)

“No. 1 Royal Crescent is a magnificently restored town-house museum where you can explore fashionable life in Georgian Bath of the 18th Century,” according to its website. If the place looks familiar, that’s because its sophisticated architecture appeared in the Keira Knightley film The Duchess (2008) before standing as the exterior of the Featherington clan’s family manor. You’ll quickly recognize the estate’s front door and Penelope’s window, giving her a wistful view of the Bridgerton house and, thus, much gossip to ponder.

Built in the 18th century, the estate is decorated in the style of its heyday between 1776 and 1796. A visit (on the select days when the property is open) promises to be like traveling back in time as you browse the museum’s antiques, historical furniture, and works of art to get an immersive taste of life centuries ago. With chambers like “The Gentleman’s Retreat,” “Cabinet of Curiosities,” “The Withdrawing Room,” and “The Servants’ Hall,” No. 1 Royal Crescent — now well into its sixth decade as a public museum — is the whole package for both Bridgerton fans and everyone else curious about the upstairs vs. downstairs experience of the time.

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Halton House (Buckinghamshire, England)

If you are still gushing over the Featherington Ball from the season 2 finale — or Daphne and the Duke of Hastings’ storybook wedding reception in season 1 — then you must head to Buckinghamshire for a visit to the French-style Halton House, an enthralling chateau-esque country estate in the Chiltern Hills. The interior shots of Bridgerton House (especially near the grand staircase) owe much of their refined glory to this estate in Aylesbury, which also appeared in The King’s Speech, Downton Abbey, and The World Is Not Enough (1999).

Immortalized on the National Heritage List for England — a registry of the country’s most significant historic buildings and sites — the fabulous house was built for Alfred de Rothschild in the early 1880s, where Rothschild used it as a country residence from 1883 until his death in 1918. The current owner of the mansion is The Royal Air Force (RAF); the home and its grounds (one of the UK’s largest RAF stations) are used by the staff located at RAF Halton, so the location will be open for viewing on select days only, which you can find on the RAF Halton website.

Wilton House (Wiltshire, England)

A true chameleon that portrays several different locations throughout Bridgerton, Wilton House is proudly among the most prolific star homes in the UK. It served as the Buckingham Palace stand-in for The Crown and appeared in the likes of Emma (2020) and Pride & Prejudice (2005). That regal legacy lives on as Queen Charlotte’s royal residence in Bridgerton, as her bedroom, parlor, presentation chamber, and gardens are all filmed at Wilton. In the show, the grand Wilton also stands as Lady Danbury’s library, the dining room of Clyvedon Castle (where the married Simon and Daphne live as the Duke and Duchess of Hastings), and the exterior of the Duke of Hastings’ house, as well as its hallways and study.

The house was built in 1543 by the 1st Earl of Pembroke in the Palladian style and has been in the hands of the Pembroke family for nearly 500 years. The current (and 18th) Earl and Countess of Pembroke say on the Wilton House website that its buildings and land were granted to the Earl’s ancestor, Sir William Herbert, in 1544 and have been connected to “the political and artistic circles of England” since then. The house is currently open for the summer season on select days and times, ready to receive history connoisseurs and Bridgerton enthusiasts alike.

Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly.