Film Locations

The Young Victoria

 

Lincoln Cathedral is one of the finest examples of Gothic architecture, and doubled for Westminister in the coronation scenes for The Young Victoria. During November 2007 the Cathedral played host to stars of the film such as Emily Blunt ("The Devil Wears Prada" & "Summer of Love"), Princess Beatrice and Lincolnshire-born Jim Broadbent. The movie was released in March 2009 and includes Belvoir Castle (situated on the Lincolnshire/Leicestershire border) in the filming locations.

 

Pride and Prejudice

 

Retrace the steps of the stars from the 2005 box office success with a visit to Burghley House. The blockbuster movie, which featured Keira Knightley, Matthew McFayden and Dame Judi Dench, picked Burghley House as the lavish backdrop for Rosings Park.

 

Or Belton House which also featured as Lady Catherine De Bourg’s residence in the BBC series with Colin Firth in 1995. The 17th Century Country House has beautiful gardens and a landscaped deer parks which is open all year round for walks.

 

Stamford in the south of Lincolnshire is one of the finest stone Georgian towns in England and the setting for Pride and Prejudice’s Meryton village.

 

The George Hotel, Stamford, said to be one of England’s greatest coaching inns and where Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Judi Dench and Donald Sutherland stayed. www.georgehotelofstamford.com

 

Late afternoon walking tours of Stamford’s film locationsare available allowing you to relive the BBC’s Middlemarch experience. At the end of the day dine at the award-winning restaurant at The George Hotel.

 

The Da Vinci Code

 

Double Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks enjoyed a Lincolnshire stay after Hollywood returned to the county in summer 2005 to shoot a big budget film version of best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code. Lincoln Cathedral was used as a double for London’s Westminster Abbey in the eagerly awaited film version of the novel which was released in May 2006.

 

Elizabeth the Golden Age

 

Burghley House was used during the filming of Elizabeth - The Golden Age which stars Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush and Samantha Morton. The film, which premiered in the UK in October 2007, explores Queen Elizabeth's relationship with Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen).

 

More film locations in Lincolnshire

 

Stamford was the backdrop for Meryton village in the new Pride and Prejudice and also the 1994 BBC TV costume drama Middlemarch. The TV adaptation of George Eliot's story was filmed largely there and at Grimsthorpe Castle.

 

Burghley House was also the location for costume drama The Golden Bowl starring Uma Thurman and Nick Nolte filmed in Autumn 2000. And in August 2004 The Three Musketeers saw Burghley playing the part of the home of the Duke of Buckingham.

 

Much of wartime movie Memphis Belle (1990) was filmed at RAF Binbrook in North Lincolnshire while Helen Cresswell’s Moondial, a 1987 BBC TV children’s series, was set around Belton House.

 

Among a host of others are The Haunting (Belvoir Castle and Harlaxton Manor), The Fortunes & Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (Grimsthorpe Castle and Burghley), A is for Acid (Lincoln Castle) and The Life & Crimes of William Palmer (Lincoln Castle & Bailgate).

 

And while the blockbuster the Da Vinci Code once again threw the Hollywood spotlight on historic Lincoln, the city and cathedral were also given a big screen airing in Possession (2002) starring Gwyneth Paltrow, which featured Lincoln University, Lincoln Station and Eastgate.