Castle Howard: Yorkshire stately home where Brideshead Revisited and Bridgerton were filmed to feature in new Channel 4 documentary
The Yorkshire stately home Castle Howard where Brideshead Revisited and Bridgerton will be featured in a new Channel 4 documentary.
Castle Howard will feature in the new Channel 4 series Great Estates from Above, a four-part documentary using state-of-the-art drone and aerial photography showcasing Britain’s most historic and impressive estates.
The programme will follow the Castle Howard team and Howard family in 2025, going behind the scenes on the landmark Castle Howard’s 21st Century Renaissance project which opened to visitors in April this year.
This project was a once-in-a-generation restoration of Castle Howard’s Tapestry Drawing Room which was destroyed in a catastrophic fire in 1940, and a rehang of the public interiors, involving a huge team of craftspeople, staff and volunteers.
It will also be covering Castle Howard’s nature and conservation initiatives shadowing the estate’s natural environment team and conservation volunteers as they embark on habitat conservation works, including creating banks of scrub to protect baby trees and welcoming a herd of rare-breed goats to their new woodland home.
The cameras zoomed in on Castle Howard’s landmark nature restoration and rewilding project, The Bog Hall Habitat Bank in collaboration with Environment Bank, following the Environment Bank team as they undertook baseline monitoring.
Castle Howard’s visitor attraction director, Abbi Ollive, said: “We were delighted to welcome Channel 4 back to Castle Howard to follow the Estate’s activities earlier this year, and thrilled they were able to go behind the scenes on the 21st Century Renaissance project which was a major milestone in Castle Howard’s recent history.
“The beautiful aerial footage captured by the team show how special Castle Howard, the Howardian Hills and wider North Yorkshire countryside really are, as well as highlighting the people that work so hard to restore, conserve and maintain it.”
The Castle Howard episode will air on More4 on Thursday, October 16, at 9pm, after the series opened up with Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire last week. Burghley House and Penshurst Place will feature in subsequent episodes.