Pride & Prejudice: it’s likely on your bookcase, in your DVD collection, or both.
It’s the best-selling Jane Austen novel and its adaptations have garnered just as much praise. Let’s look back at the 2005 movie and pinpoint where the filming locations for Pride and Prejudice are around England that you can visit by train.
Image Credit: Getty Images, Tom Meaker. Image Location: Temple of Apollo, Stourhead Gardens, England
Stourhead House
Closest stations: Bruton | Gillingham
This palladian mansion dating back to the 1740s is on a 1,000-acre estate blossoming with waterside gardens. It’s in the Temple of Apollo in Stourhead Gardens that Mr. Darcy initially proposes to Elizabeth.
Chatsworth House
Closest station: Matlock
The Chatsworth House in Derbyshire is no stranger to film crews. Equal parts elegant and stately, it took on the role as Pemberley for Pride & Prejudice.
🚆 Trainline Trivia: Chatsworth House recently added another credit to its resume in The Regime starring Kate Winslet (The Holiday) and Hugh Grant (Notting Hill).
Haddon Hall
Closest station: Matlock
While stopping at Matlock train station to visit the Chatham House, hop a bus and swing over to Haddon Hall. This grand Tudor home acted as the Lambton’s inn.
Wilton House
Closest station: Salisbury
Chatsworth House provided the grounds for Mr. Darcy’s lavish home, but Wilton House offered up its interiors to act as the Pemberley drawing room.
Image Credit: Getty Images, Jelena Mbugua. Image Location: Basildon Park, Berkshire, England
Basildon Park, Berkshire
Closest stations: Pangbourne | Goring & Streatley
This Georgian manor house in Berkshire was one of the Pride and Prejudice filming locations for Mr. Bingley’s house, Netherfield, where Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy shared a dance.
🚆 Trainline Trivia: Basildon Park returned as Netherfield as a filming location for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Groombridge Place
Closest station: Groombridge
Groombridge Place in Kent is one of the easiest filming locations for Pride and Prejudice to reach via train because you can walk to the 17th-century house from the platform. Groombridge Place was the Bennett family home: Longbourn.
St Mary the Virgin Church
Closest station: Kettering
To find the Pride & Prejudice locations for Mr. Collin’s church house, visit St Mary the Virgin Church in Weekley, a small village with an ancient past.
St George’s Square
Closest station: Stamford
Stamford’s square just across the River Welland offers a glimpse of Meryton, a town located near the Bennett’s and Mr. Bingley’s homes.
Burghley House, Rosings
Closest station: Stamford
Lady Catherine’s Rosings Park is actually the Burghley House in Lincolnshire, not a far drive from St George’s Square.
Stanage Edge, Derbyshire
Closest station: Hathersage
There’s no better place to end your Pride and Prejudice filming locations tour than in Derbyshire at Stanage Edge. Within the Peak District National Park outside of Sheffield, Stanage Edge is worth the hike for the spectacular views, whether or not you’ve seen the film.
Image Credit: Getty Images, John Turp. Image Location: Stanage Rocks, Derbyshire, England
Pride and Prejudice: what to know about the 2005 movie
What to know about Pride and Prejudice (2005), one of many book-to-screen Jane Austen adaptations.
Who is in Pride & Prejudice?
Pride and Prejudice was released in 2005 and stars Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game) and Matthew Macfadyen (Succession) as Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. It also features Donald Sutherland (The Italian Job), Rupert Friend (Asteroid City), Tom Hollander (The White Lotus), Carey Mulligan (Saltburn), and Rosamund Pike (The World’s End).
Does Kiera Knightley wear a wig in Pride and Prejudice?
Kiera Knightley’s real hair is present in Pride and Prejudice, but she also wears a wig. She kept her natural hair during most of the shoot, but had to wear a wig during the final weeks of filming. Knightley was cast as the titular bounty hunter in Domino and shaved her head before Pride and Prejudice completely wrapped. For the record: we would have fully applauded a bald Elizabeth Bennet.
Why are there two endings to 2005’s Pride and Prejudice?
Pride and Prejudice has two endings. The technical “original” ending is referred to as the “US alternate ending”: Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy close out the film together with a whole lot of kissing and a whole lot of ‘Mrs. Darcy’ being uttered. However, this didn’t elicit a bubbly, swooning response from the UK test audience — so the version that hit theaters ends on Mr. Bennet approving of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy.
What does the hand flex scene in Pride and Prejudice mean?
The hand flex scene in Pride and Prejudice symbolizes Mr. Darcy’s lack of self-control when he’s with Elizabeth. Such an instinctive reaction for the character was not written in the script, but was a choice by Mr. Darcy’s Matthew Macfadyen. The director caught the movement and had Macfadyen do it once more in a close-up shot.
Image Credit: Focus Features
Who played the best Mr. Darcy?
Pinning a blue ribbon on a Mr. Darcy actor is a great way to ruffle some feathers. We think that there are three best Mr. Darcys (and we bet we could guess your age based on your choice).
Matthew Macfadyen was a dreamy Darcy and it doesn’t hurt that his recent run in Succession has many minds on him.
But let’s not forget that Colin Firth, a heartthrob in his own era of romantic productions, played a version of Mr. Darcy twice. And who dares rank the Darcys without mentioning Laurence Olivier’s original page-to-screen version.
Who played the best Elizabeth Bennet?
From an award perspective, Kiera Knightley is the best Elizabeth Bennet: she won a Best Actress Oscar for the role. We do love a Jennifer Ehle-version of the character in the BBC Pride and Prejudice series, though. It may not have won an Emmy, but Ehle is the better Bennet in the eyes of many an Austen fan.
How many times has Pride and Prejudice been adapted on screen?
To tweak a phrase from the work itself: it’s a truth universally acknowledged that a single producer in possession of a best-selling book must be in want of an on-screen adaptation. Pride and Prejudice exists beyond the pages as dozens of films and TV shows.
Some remain as faithful as possible to the source material, like the BBC miniseries from 1995 starring Colin Firth (Love Actually), to the wildly imaginative Pride and Prejudice and Zombies film starring Lily James (Downton Abbey), to the reimagined versions like Bridget Jones’s Diary, which we imagine couldn’t reimagine Mr. Darcy’s character as anyone other than Colin Firth again.
Is Pride & Prejudice (2005) faithful to the book?
Without spoiling either the film or the novel, Pride & Prejudice is an adaptation that features both accurate and inaccurate elements of the plot and characters. Voracious readers of Austen’s work aren’t getting a page-for-page retelling while moviegoers who enjoyed the film can find a slightly different version of the story in the book.
Where was Pride & Prejudice filmed?
Pride & Prejudice (2005) was filmed in England, not unlike most of the other adaptations. Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire and Kent make up the bulk of Pride and Prejudice movie locations.
Not all of us can afford to be romantic, Lizzy…
But most of us can afford train tickets to the Pride and Prejudice filming locations around England. Download the Trainline app and purchase tickets for the lowest prices available then ride the rails to other romantic filming locations for movies and shows like:
📺 One Day
📽️ Good Grief
📽️ Poor Things
📺 Poldark
Header Image Credit: Getty Images, John Turp. Image Location: Stanage Rocks, Derbyshire, England
