Highclere Castle
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Highclere Castle, front façade
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 Location within Hampshire
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| General information | |
| Status | Grade I listed |
| Type | Stately home |
| Architectural style | Jacobethan ("Jacobean Revival") |
| Location | Highclere, Hampshire |
| Coordinates | 51°19′36″N 1°21′41″W / 51.326667°N 1.361389°WCoordinates: 51°19′36″N 1°21′41″W / 51.326667°N 1.361389°W |
| Construction started | 1679 |
| Owner | George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon |
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Highclere Castle /ˈhaɪklɪər/ is a country house in the Jacobethan style by the architect Charles Barry, with a park designed by Capability Brown. The 5,000-acre (2,000 ha) estate is in Hampshire, England, about 5 miles (8 km) south of Newbury, Berkshire. It is the country seat of the Earl of Carnarvon, a branch of the Anglo-Welsh Herbert family.
Highclere Castle was a filming location for the British comedy series Jeeves and Wooster, which starred comedians Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. It was also used as the main filming location for the award-winning period drama Downton Abbey. The great hall and some of the bedrooms located inside the building were also used for filming.
The castle and gardens are open to the public during July and August and at times during the rest of the year.
The castle stands on the site of an earlier house, which was built on the foundations of the medieval palace of the Bishops of Winchester, who owned this estate from the 8th century. The original site was recorded in the Domesday Book.
An itinerary of King Edward II lists him as spending 2 September 1320 with Rigaud of Assier, the Bishop of Winchester, at Bishop's Clere, alias Highclere. The same tour has him on 31 August 1320 at Sandleford Priory, where he apparently stayed or tarried for the night, and on 29 and 30 August he was at Crookham, Berkshire.
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