From Emma’s Regency England and a 60s-era Soho horror from Edgar Wright to Dorset’s Jurassic Coast in Ammonite, the UK has a major role in these upcoming films
Jane Austen’s tale of misguided matchmaking in the fictional village of Highbury, in early 19th-century England, is reimagined in a new film starring Anya Taylor-Joy as Emma, alongside Johnny Flynn, Bill Nighy and Miranda Hart. Several historic English houses that feature in the film are open to the public for tours and tea: Firle Place in Lewes, in the South Downs national park, a Tudor stately home and garden remodelled in the 18th century; Wilton House and its parkland and rose gardens by the River Nadder in Salisbury; 16th-century Kingston Bagpuize house and gardens in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, which stood in as Lord Merton’s house in Downton Abbey; and Elizabethan Chavenage House in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, where parts of Poldark was also filmed. Also making several appearances as Highbury is the village of Lower Slaughter in the Cotswolds, including the market square, its 16th- and 17th-century cottages, and the village hall.
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