{"id":897873,"date":"2026-04-16T11:31:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/897873\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:31:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:31:32","slug":"from-bridgerton-to-wuthering-heights-this-is-the-best-of-britain-on-screen-and-how-to-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/897873\/","title":{"rendered":"From Bridgerton to Wuthering heights, this is the best of Britain on screen \u2013 and how to do it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lights! Camera! Holiday! Or so it seems. \u2018Set-jetting\u2019 is one of the hottest travel trends for 2026 \u2013 Expedia research found 81% of Gen Z and Millennials plan trips around locations featured in film and television. And the UK is a hotspot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thanks to the country\u2019s diversity and drama, it\u2019s been the backdrop to some of the hottest releases of the year, inspiring us to wander windswept moors \u00e0 la Margot Robbie, channel a flat-capped Cillian Murphy in Birmingham or go Bridgerton Regencycore in Bath (yes, there are companies that will dress you in period gowns).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here are a few places where you can put yourself in the pictures\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n

1 Bridgerton\u00a0<\/p>\n

Where? Bath<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Bridgerton\u00a9 LIAM DANIEL\/NETFLIXBridgerton will inspire a visit to Bath<\/p>\n

Season four of this Regency romp is out now, the perfect spur for a visit to Bath. The show does use locations elsewhere, but this beautiful honey-stone city is pure Bridgerton. Cobbled and colonnaded Bath Street, the grand Holburne Museum, Beauford Square and the sweeping Royal Crescent have all made appearances. For on-theme refreshments, head to the Abbey Deli, which stood in for the Modiste dress shop in the first two seasons; for expert intel, join Blue Badge guide Fred Mawr for a Bridgerton tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Where to stay:\u00a0<\/strong>The Royal Crescent Hotel is pure Georgian elegance. Doubles from \u00a3435pn B&B, Bath on Screen package, including themed tour, costs from \u00a3818pn DB&B;\u00a0royalcrescent.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Pulteney\u00a9 Getty ImagesPulteney Bridge, Bath
\n2 The Magic Faraway Tree<\/p>\n

Where? Surrey Hills<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"TheThe Magic Faraway Tree offers a sepia-tinged vision of rural England<\/p>\n

Enid Blyton doesn\u2019t name the location of her Magic Faraway Tree \u2013 rather, her novels play out in a sepia-tinged vision of rural England. For the new movie, the crew settled on the Surrey Hills, a sylvan swathe of rolling downs, steep scarps, chalk grasslands and plentiful trees \u2013 Surrey is England\u2019s most wooded county. The film used a private estate, but many \u2018Enchanted Woods\u2019 can be explored, including Abinger Roughs (home to the creepy Witch\u2019s Broom Tree), the giant sequoias of Leith Hill and Deepdene, a secret garden of forgotten grottoes, follies and ruins.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Where to stay:\u00a0<\/strong>Surrey\u2019s elegant Pennyhill Park Hotel & Spa is set in 120 luxuriant acres. Doubles from \u00a3321pn B&B;\u00a0exclusive.co.uk\/pennyhill-park<\/a><\/p>\n

\"ThePennyhill Park has a fantastic spa and outdoor pool
\n3 Wuthering Heights<\/p>\n

Where? Yorkshire Dales<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Cathy\u00a9 Warner BrosThe moors are as much as a character as Cathy and Heathcliff<\/p>\n

Yorkshire\u2019s raw, wild, moody moors are as much a character in Emily Bront\u00eb\u2019s 1847 novel as Cathy and Heathcliff. So where else could filming for Emerald Fennell\u2019s movie version take place? The production used spots around rippling Swaledale, one of the loveliest and least-touched valleys in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Scenes were shot amid Low Row\u2019s comely stone cottages and in the untamed moors above, around Old Gang Smelt Mill and Surrender Bridge \u2013 which, incidentally, also starred in the opening credits of All Creatures Great and Small. There\u2019s great walking country all around.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Where to stay:\u00a0<\/strong>The Wuthering Heights cast and crew stayed at luxe 17th-century country-house hotel Simonstone Hall. Doubles from \u00a3199pn B&B;\u00a0simonstonehall.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Swaledale\"\u00a9 Getty ImagesSwaledale is one of the loveliest valleys in the Yorkshire Dales National Park
\n4 Peaky Blinders: Immortal Man\u00a0<\/p>\n

Where? Birmingham<\/strong><\/p>\n

The new Peaky Blinders movie uses sites such as Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Bradford\u2019s historic Little Germany, but the heart and soul of the Shelby saga will always lie in the West Midlands. Dudley was the haunt of both real-life and fictional Peaky Blinders: stroll cobbled alleys, boat docks and backyards used on screen at the open-air Black Country Living Museum. In Birmingham, hit Digbeth: once the city\u2019s industrial hub, it\u2019s now its creative district, home to Victorian factories transformed into indie bars and shops, as well as Digbeth Loc Studios, where the movie was largely made.<\/p>\n

\"Cillian\u00a9 NetflixPeaky Blinders is set in Dudley <\/p>\n

Where to stay:\u00a0<\/strong>Opened in 1879, the recently restored Grand Hotel oozes period glamour. Doubles from \u00a3133pn B&B;\u00a0thegrandhotelbirmingham.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

5 Harry Potter\u00a0<\/p>\n

Where? Highlands<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been 25 years since the first Harry Potter movie, and all eyes will be on the boy wizard again when the new series launches later this year. The original films were shot in locations across Britain, from the cloisters of Durham Cathedral to London\u2019s King\u2019s Cross Station (home of Platform 9\u00be). But there\u2019s no more iconic Potter experience than riding the Jacobite Steam Train \u2013 aka the Hogwarts Express \u2013 between Fort William and Mallaig. From the base of Ben Nevis, the train puffs via deep lochs, heathery moors and 21-arch Glenfinnan Viaduct \u2013 pure magic.<\/p>\n

\"The\u00a9 Getty ImagesThe 21-arch Glenfinnan Viaduct<\/p>\n

Where to stay:\u00a0<\/strong>There\u2019s something a bit Hogwarts about Fort William\u2019s turreted, mountain-backed Inverlochy Castle Hotel. Doubles from \u00a3450pn B&B;\u00a0inverlochycastlehotel.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

6 Hamnet<\/p>\n

Where? Herefordshire<\/strong><\/p>\n

This award-winner about the Shakespeares didn\u2019t use their real home of Stratford-upon-Avon. It used far less-crowded little Weobley instead, an excellent stand-in for Elizabethan England, chock-full of black-and-white timber houses. Shots were taken on Broad Street, looking towards the soaring spire of the Church of St Peter and St Paul; a door next to the Wobbly Badger Caf\u00e9 played the family\u2019s home. Take a walk with Hamnet History Tours & So Much More<\/a> and explore beyond the town, via the Black and White Villages Trail, which meanders round Herefordshire\u2019s other scenic timber-framed towns such as Pembridge and Leominster.<\/p>\n

\"Weobley\u00a9 Getty ImagesWeobley stood in for Stratford-upon-Avon in Hamnet<\/p>\n

Where to stay:\u00a0<\/strong>Weobley\u2019s character-packed St Columba\u2019s Cottage dates back to 1540. Doubles from \u00a3110pn B&B;\u00a0stcolumbasweobley.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lights! Camera! Holiday! Or so it seems. \u2018Set-jetting\u2019 is one of the hottest travel trends for 2026 \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[34628,748,393,4884,2837,1144,712,183,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-897873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-britain","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-bridgerton","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-holiday","tag-northern-ireland","tag-scotland","tag-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116414165709431623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}