Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. Go back to the Edwardian era on this three-hour private tour of sites from the popular television period drama Downton Abbey. This is an amazing opportunity for fans of the TV show to travel in style with a private driver to chauffeur you around just like the Crawleys themselves! Stay in touch with our daily life and news through Highclere Castle Instagram, Lady Carnarvon's Blog,Podcastor Highclere Castle Facebook. A post shared by Highclere Castle (@highclere_castle), 2022 Highclere Castle. Take a walking tour that delves into the history of Winston Churchill's ancestral home, originally given to the first duke of Marlborough as a gift from the English Parliament. Visit Cogges Manor Farm and Bampton, the setting of Downton village. 
YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. There will be a short stop at the church that Matthew and Edith visit in series 1 (episode 3) and youll pass the pub where Branson and Lady Sybil stay when they elope in series 2.Most notably, you will visit Downton Village where you will get a guided tour of the village and see familiar sites such as exteriors of Downton hospital, the village pub, the former home of Matthew Crawley and the local church, amongst others. After touring Oxford, enjoy a walking tour around Bampton Village, the setting used for filming outdoor scenes in the show. Follow in the footsteps of the likes of Lady Sybil and Tom Branson as you wander through the dining, smoking and music rooms, and learn all about the Carnarvons, the real-life family who have owned Highclere Castle since the late 17th century.See other impressive filming sites, such as the Red Stairs, saloon, gallery and bedrooms, then return to your coach and relax on the journey back to London.Your day trip then concludes with a drop-off at the original start point. Learn about how the current villagers' homes are transformed into the Post Office and the pub for the TV show, and explore the Bampton Archive and local exhibitions to learn about the village history. Enjoy Lady Carnarvon's latest book which combines storytelling with gardening and cooking. Downton memorabilia - Beautiful cards, prints and mugs (done by a local artist) as well as books of the filming are all on offer to purchase. Hear insider gossip about characters such as Lady Mary, and discover little-known facts about the shooting locations included on your tour. Stop in Bibury, and walk with your guide to Arlington Row, a set of pretty cottages that date back to the 14th century.Continue on to the Little Venice of the Cotswolds, Bourton-on-the-Water. On a tour, admire the buildings fine architecture and stylish vintage decor, and learn about the Downton scenes that were filmed at the site. The maximum passengers per taxi is six. Highclere is used for both exterior and interior filming for the show. Tour the state rooms and gardens and learn all about the real-life Carnarvon family who own the estate. Entirely innovative, we hope you will come with us to go where no-one has gone before. Enjoy Lady Carnarvon's latest book which combines storytelling with gardening and cooking. During theFirst World War, Highclere Castle was converted into a hospital for wounded soldiers run by the 5th Countess of Carnarvon. With Highclere Castle as the highlight, the tour also takes in sights at the chocolate box village of Bampton, and pays a visit to the university city of Oxford, where youll have time to explore the famed colleges and historic city centre. Then, feel the tranquility wash over you as you head across arched stone bridges for views of River Windrush. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze how you use this website. YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. Depending on availability and group size, you might end up in an old-style black cab or a newer black cab. Have your camera ready as you wander down the high street, lined with shaded greens. Here, you will get a guided tour of locations such as Downton hospital, the village pub, the former home of Matthew Crawley and the local church. Then, stroll along the main street, passing sights such as the fictional Grantham Arms pub.Continue on to Highclere Castle, one of the most famous Downton filming locations. Relax on the journey back to London, and then finish your day trip with a drop-off at the Victoria Train Station. Following lunch, you will have a guided tour of this location which featured as the home of Mr Drewe, the struggling tenant who agrees to secretly help raise Lady Ediths daughter.From here, you will set off to the heart of rural Oxfordshire where several villages have been used in the world of Downton Abbey. Choose between a 3-hour, 4-hour or full-day tour and explore Londons Downton Abbey filming locations with a private guide. See the dining, music and smoking rooms that the likes of Lady Sybil graced with their presence, and learn all about the real-life family who have owned Highclere Castle since the late 17th century: the Carnarvons.After exploring further areas of the impressive filming site such as the Red Stairs, saloon, gallery and bedrooms, return to your minivan with your guide. With your guide leading the way, explore the grand estate that surrounds the castle including Monks Garden, White Border, Secret Garden and the Wood of Goodwill, and learn about Highclere Castles role as the Grantham family home.After free time for lunch or a snack in the on-site tea rooms (own expense), make your way into the castle to explore its lavish state rooms with your guide. You will receive informative commentary about the show and the locations you visit on your journey out to Oxfordshire where the first stop of the day will be the beautiful village of Bampton. Next, we head for the beautiful village of Bampton in Oxfordshire. Tour the house, meet the resident pigs in the garden, and finish with afternoon tea: sandwiches plus scones with clotted cream and preserves (own expense). Leaving the hubbub of town, your afternoon will be spent visiting Downton Village, Yew Tree Farm and enjoying the picturesque Cotswold scenery and villages.Travelling by mini coach, the tour will provide you with an insight into the making of the show and uncover stories behind some of the places that you will visit on the tour.Starting in central London, your tour will take you to the Inns of Court which have been popular sites for filming. This slightly shorter tour still lasts between eight and nine hours and poses great value for money. The private tour visits the locations where the series was filmed, as well as the exclusive gentlemens clubs and haunts typically frequented by early 20th-century English aristocrats, such as the fictional Crawleys, in Belgravia, Mayfair, Westminster and the City. Be sure to book early, though the tour is hugely popular!Travel deep into the historical heart of London, delving into the prestigious districts of Westminster, Belgravia, Mayfair and the City all regular haunts of English gentry in the early 1900s. As a private guide drives, learn about the lives of the fictional Crawley family from the hit TV series, and hear about Britains present-day aristocracy, too. Visit the shops where the likes of Lord and Lady Grantham might have bought their hunting outfits and hear behind-the-scenes truths and trivia as you go! Offering a real insight into Edwardian England, the tour gives you all the insider gossip about popular characters from the much-loved period drama as well as stories of the real family who have owned the castle since its 17th-century heyday. AddThis sets this cookie to track page visits, sources of traffic and share counts. 3 DAYS PROMOTION - LAST REMAINING TICKETS, Downton Abbey: Visit Highclere Castle where the award winning TV series was filmed, Cotswolds, Country Pub Lunch & Blenheim Palace - Small Group Tour, England In One Day - Stonehenge, Bath, Stratford & The Cotswolds, Luxury Escorted Paris Day Trip with Lunch on the Eiffel Tower, Classic Open-Top Vintage Bus Tour of London on Christmas Day, Open Top London Bus Tour with Afternoon Visit to Stonehenge, Windsor, Stonehenge, Lacock and Bath with Christmas Lunch, Luxury Escorted Paris Day Trip with Lunch on the Eiffel Tower (Premier Class), Paris Special with Escort onboard Eurostar to assist you, Warner Bros. Explore the Grantham Family home, Highclere Castle in this 7-hour guided tour on a luxury coach, before having lunch in Downton Village and continuing to Bampton. The colleges themselves, which make up the university, are amongst the architectural highlights, their ivy-clad stone walls protecting beautiful chapels, halls, and libraries. This tour has limited availability and sells out fast, so book now to avoid disappointment! Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns.
Tickets for all of the above can be found on ourticketing websiteand, again, we ask that you book in advance of your visit. Walk around the lavish estate that surrounds the castle, comprising Monks Garden, White Border, Secret Garden and the Wood of Goodwill, and hear all about Highclere Castles role as the Grantham family home. Over the course of approximately 11 hours, the tour first wends its way through the Oxfordshire countryside, past sites recognisable from the show Downton Abbey, such as Bampton Village and the Grantham Arms pub, before a guided tour of Highclere Castle takes visitors through the gorgeous rooms of the famous stately home. Departing Highclere Castle, we head back to London and arrive back at approximately 7pm. After paying your entrance fee, wander around the lavish state rooms with your guide and hear insider gossip about characters such as the Dowager Countess of Grantham and Lady Mary. After, head to Bampton, a quintessentially English village that featured as Downton village in the hit TV show Downton Abbey. See the church and the popular Grantham Arms pub, and then spend the afternoon at Highclere Castle aka the Grantham family home. Following a pick up from a meeting point in central London by the beautiful Thames, and taken on an entertainment filled trip through stunning Oxfordshire. Read on for the sample itineraries. Moreover, our partners, such as Google Adsense, will collect data and use cookies for ad personalization and measurement. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". This cookie is used by Facebook to control its functionalities, collect language settings and share pages. The first location that you visit is about 70 miles out of town and (depending on traffic) the journey lasts between 1.5 to 2 hours.Upon your arrival at the historic 10th century farmstead which featured as Yew Tree Farm in Series 4 and 5, you can enjoy a complimentary Cotswolds platter. To learn more about cookies, you can consult our. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. Hear insider gossip about characters such as Lady Edith and Dowager Countess of Grantham, and uncover little-known facts about the filming locations visited on your tour.Your first stop is at Cogges Manor Farm. The Royal Standard flag never flies at half-mast since the monarch is never dead. Begin your Abbey adventure in London and take a luxury coach to the beautiful and quaint Oxfordshire Cotswolds, to see key filming sites of Downton Abbey. Admission to the castle is included in the price. Bampton is the setting for exterior village scenes in the ITV series of Downton Abbey. Booking conditions:A full refund will be made if Premium Tours is informed at least 10 days before departure. The black cabs seat a maximum of five people. A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. See the church where Lady Mary and Matthew Crawley married, and the house that was once the Crawley family home. This 3 hour tour will take you to some of the locations used in Downton Abbey as well as Mr. Selfridge & The Halcyon. Designed to be fun and entertaining rather than a serious historical exploration, this family-friendly tour is a fantastic way to see London through the eyes of the Granthams. It makes for fascinating reading and is a unique souvenir to remember the day, exclusive to Premium Tours. The must-do tour is available with a choice of three itineraries, each inspired by the program. Lunch and entrance fees are at your own expense, and all tours finish with a hotel drop-off. It is possible to make the visit to Highclere Castle on a day trip from London. Explore the state rooms and grounds of Highclere Castle, the real-life Downton Abbey, and travel to the Cotswold village of Bampton, the setting of Downton village. On this small group (max 6 persons) day tour you will start by departing from central London, then heading for the charming Oxfordshire village that has been featured as Downton Village. Wander through ornate chapels, lavish libraries and spacious halls.Before leaving the city, youll have free time to discover its endearing charms independently. Your private guide for the day is your driver, so chat away as you travel and hear fun facts about the hit. Bishop William of Wykeham built a beautiful medieval palace and gardens in the park. As you travel, listen to your guide share entertaining tales and trivia about the British period drama TV series, Downton Abbey.Filmed mostly in and around Oxfordshire, the hit show follows the lives, dramas and scandals of the fictional Crawley family and their servants in the days before, during and after World War I. In the "hospital," which is the public library, there is also the Vesey room where the Bampton Archive is housed, and various local exhibitions are set out. By limiting the size of each group to no more than 18 people, this tour is a far better way to ensure you get more time at the places you want to visit. The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. Pose for photos by the country estates distinctive Jacobethan faade and then head inside. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. Having explored the village, you will then travel to Highclere Castle, which is used as the main Downton Abbey set. Leaving Bampton, we now head for Highclere Castle, made famous by the Downton Abbey TV series. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. All rights reserved. Continue through the heart of the Cotswolds to see more of the quintessential villages that typify the area, and enjoy lunch at the pub where Lady Sybil elopes with her chauffeur Branson in the second series. Before your tour concludes with a hotel drop-off, enjoy a drive around the city to see the establishments visited by the landed gentry of today. All entry fees are included in the price of this tour. Why not spend some time enjoying the parklands created by Lancelot Capability Brown who also designed the grounds of Blenheim Palace, or indulge yourself with tea and cake at one of the tea rooms once you have finished touring the Castle? Return to London in the late afternoon for a tour of the capital to see how the landed gentry or, the English elite still live today. Designed by famed architect Charles Barry (whose work you may also have unknowingly experienced in Trafalgar Square), the gardens are also celebrated as they were designed by the equally revered Capability Brown. And, discover from your guide how Londons poor lived at the time, often in cramped districts just a few steps from the genteel areas known to families such as the Granthams.If you have opted to enjoy a 4-hour tour, spend an additional hour exploring more buildings and shops featured in Downton Abbey. Here you will have approximately 3 hours to explore the house and grounds of the castle with the aid of our own self guided leaflet which gives details of what was filmed in each room of the castle.At Highclere there will be a chance for you to take lunch (not included) and get some wonderful souvenirs from the shop. Start with a tour of Bampton, the leafy Oxfordshire dwelling that starred as Downton village. On this day tour, you will explore some of the 'Downton Abbey' film locations featured in both London and the Oxfordshire countryside. Next, return to your cab and travel to the Cotswolds, a region characterized by postcard-perfect parishes comprised of thatched cottages, honey-hued mansions and historical churches. On a walking tour, see the village church the site of Lady Marys wedding to Matthew Crawley and the house that was once used as the Crawley family home. Leave Londons Marble Arch by air-conditioned minivan, and travel west to the rolling limestone hills of Oxfordshire. In the third series, the Crawley family downsized to their second home of Downton Place; although in real life, this stately Tudor mansion is better known as Greys Court. This cookie can only be read from the domain they are set on and will not track any data while browsing through other sites. You can follow in the footsteps of Mr Bricker and Cora when they go for a walk and spot the caf where Tom spies Lady Rose out with the Jazz singer, Jack Ross. Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. The tour includes a guided commentary to help point out sites of interest as you pass by on the coach before stopping in Bampton Village, which was used as Downton Village in the TV show. 10/11 Sep 2022, Friends of Highclere Upcoming Book Club. Famous as the filming location for the hit TV series Downton Abbey, the stately castle dates to the Victorian era and is set in the middle of 1,000 acres (405 hectares) of stunning parkland.With your guide, tour this incredible castle and see rooms frequented by the likes of Lady Mary, Cousin Matthew, Lord Grantham and other characters in the popular Edwardian drama. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. A Downton Abbey tour is a full-day event. The tour includes a signed copy of Lady Carnarvons autobiography. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. Why not try out a pub lunch at one of the many famous inns of Oxford? Pass Downton hospital and take in other sites such as the fictional Grantham Arms pub.You'll also have the opportunity to stop in at a local restaurant or cafe for lunch (own expense).When the time comes, return to your coach for the journey back to London, where your day trip concludes at Victoria Station. What's new?
Also, step daintily out of your cab to visit some of the shops where the aristocratic Lord and Lady Grantham might have bought their clothes and hunting regalia. Set by addthis.com to determine the usage of addthis.com service. As you travel, your guide will keep you entertained with stories about this must-visit city, home to the world-famous Oxford University.The colleges that make up Oxford University represent the citys architectural highlights, and youll explore these during a comprehensive walking tour.
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