Although they may now come with more car parks, the beaches are open to the public. Home on Sanditon to the miserly Lady Denham (played by …

The all-important sea scenes, meanwhile, were shot close to Clevedon, chiefly on Brean Beach.

Alex Protherough, Head of Production, Red Planet Pictures said: “When looking for a suitable production base for filming Sanditon, we were immediately drawn to Bristol and the South West. The property, which has also been seen in Doctor Who and period drama The Crimson Field, is managed by the National Trust and is open to the public for a hefty £13.50 entrance fee. James Medd, Freelance writer covering music, film and TV, travel and society, history and literature. You can opt out at any time or find out more by reading our cookie policy. The series continues on ITV on Sunday night at 9pm. When not serving as filming locations, both are open to the public as museums, if you are truly looking to complete your Sanditon pilgrimage. “Once the crew had dressed the set and the cast were in their costumes, it’s very easy to imagine that you were back in the Regency era – especially with the magnificent backdrop of the house.”.

We follow the plot to find its finest Regency locations around England, By Here's the 'Downton Abbey' film trailer – but where was it shot. Director Olly Blackburn explained to the Radio Times: “It was all filmed on the West Coast near Bristol, because there isn’t an existing seaside resort left that isn’t full of Boots and car parks and stuff. The studio was also home to most of the building interiors, some of which are very grand indeed. Jane Austen’s last novel was unfinished at her death, making Davies co-creator rather than interpreter – and giving all involved opportunities to create something bold and different. ‘Because we had so much that was interior on these built sets,’ he told thelocationguide.com, ‘that meant that when we went outside we wanted the most beautiful, spectacular, wild landscape possible to counterpoint all those interiors.’ We suspect the ever-arch Jane Austen wouldn’t have batted an eyelid, but expect classic period drama to be just a little bolder from now on. Other scenes were filmed at Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios, where sets were used to create the actual town of Sanditon, as well as the scenes which take place in London and the interiors of Lady Denham (Anne Reid)’s house. The show is based on Jane Austen’s unfinished final novel, which sees the young and impulsive Charlotte Heywood find love in the town, as a local entrepreneur attempts to develop and modernise the town into a fashionable resort. The exterior of the elaborate Sanditon House was filmed at Dyrham Park, an authentic late-17th century mansion east of Bristol.

“The Bottle Yard Studios are perfectly located to access these locations, and they have more to offer. The new production, which airs on ITV1 at 9pm on Sundays, is set in the small Sussex seaside fishing town of Sanditon. “And he whole-cloth created all the houses you see close-up, and then we augmented that with those few shots that you see which are CGI which were shot in a place called Clevedon, that has a beautiful sea wall. There is a wealth of locations in this area, perfect for period drama, and particularly the Georgian period where our story is set. However, although there may not be a real-life Sanditon, the ITV drama was filmed at several very real locations across the UK, including the below: Production for the show was based in Bristol and Somerset, with the crew taking full advantage of the plethora of scenic seafront locations alongside the coast. Sanditon was always going to require an element of set building, as is often the case with continuing drama productions of this size. We see the extent of this in an introductory aerial shot when Charlotte arrives in Episode 1. “The construction and studio spaces at the Bottle Yard have made Bristol the obvious place to base film and television production in the area.”. TRIAL OFFER: 3 Issues for £1. And we then reconstructed our own regency town.”. “A lot of it is a set that was built by our magnificent production designer, Grant Montgomery, who did everything from Peaky Blinders to Death Comes to Pemberley. The series stars newcomer Rose Williams as unconventional Austen heroine Charlotte Heywood, and her relationship with love interest Sidney Parker (Theo James) after she moves to the titular fishing village which wants to become a seaside resort. Sanditon, the town in question, is actually a fictional place inspired by the seaside resorts which were becoming increasingly popular at the time Austen penned the novel. “The country houses, Bath and its elegant Regency architecture, even the Somerset coastline all offer a wide range of locations perfect for Sanditon. Meanwhile parts of Weston-Super-Mare – just up the road from Bristol – were also used for filming, along with the nearby village of Uphill. Beyond newspaper-titillating sex scenes, the story of young country girl Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams) and her arrival in the coastal resort town of Sanditon brought an air of changing times that the production picked up and ran with. is based on Jane Austen’s unfinished final novel, Plans for 'Tier 4' restrictions if current rules don't work to tackle coronavirus second wave, How your MP voted on the free school meals motion backed by Marcus Rashford, Covid tier map shows the areas of England subject to each level of lockdown restrictions, i's guide to Premiership final as depleted Wasps aim to shock double-chasing Exeter, Post-Brexit trade talks intensify as UK and EU edge towards a deal. While CGI helped to enhance this pretty seaside town’s existing period buildings, a full-sized street set was built at The Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol, home to both Poldark and Wolf Hall, where a building site could be accommodated alongside shops and daily life (and which could also double for London scenes). All rights reserved. For the exterior of this grand creation, the suitably splendid Dyrham Park was borrowed, the baroque home built by politician William Blathwayt in the south of Gloucestershire at the turn of the 18th century and previously seen in The Remains of the Day (1993), a 2011 episode of Doctor Who and 2014 wartime drama The Crimson Field. Here’s what you need to know about Sanditon’s locations.

In the novel, Sanditon is probably based on Worthing, where Austen spent time in 1805, but for the screen it is mostly the small town of Clevedon overlooking the Bristol Channel, which went through the same expansion into a resort we see in the show, eventually reaching its peak in Victorian times. ITV’s Jane Austen adaptation Sanditon got underway last week, bringing the author’s unfinished final novel to the screen courtesy of Pride and Prejudice’s Andrew Davies. The North Somerset town of Clevedon stood in for Sanditon in many of the seafront shots, with beach scenes filmed down the coast at Brean Beach. Breach Beach, which stretches for seven miles along the coast, is 20 miles from nearby Clevedon, where much of the action was filmed – with a mix of specially built sets and CGI used to transform the settings into something more appropriate to the era. It stars Rose Williams as Charlotte, while Theo James plays the charming Sidney Parker. Home on Sanditon to the miserly Lady Denham (played by Anne Reid), the real-life location has a rich history of its own, built for James II’s Secretary of War William Blathwayt. The majority of interior filming took place at The Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol, where Red Planet Pictures constructed the fictional insides of Trafalgar House, Sanditon House, Denham Place and Sanditon Assembly Rooms. These scenes were actually filmed at Brean Beach in Somerset, 20 miles … “When I first saw the mansion we were up on the hill doing a scene, and I looked down and it immediately felt like I was looking at Sanditon House.