page_title: Burghley House
section_title: Filming
hierarchical_section_title: Burghley House / Filming
context_page_description: Burghley House is a grand sixteenth-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire. It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, built and still lived in by the Cecil family. The exterior largely retains its Elizabethan appearance, but most of the interiors date from remodellings before 1800. The house is open to the public on a seasonal basis and displays a circuit of grand and richly furnished state apartments. Its park was laid out by Capability Brown.
  The house is on the boundary of the civil parishes of Barnack and St Martin's Without in the Peterborough unitary authority of Cambridgeshire. It was formerly part of the Soke of Peterborough, an historic area that was traditionally associated with Northamptonshire. It lies 0.9 miles south of Stamford and 10 miles northwest of Peterborough city centre.
  The house is now run by the Burghley House Preservation Trust, which is controlled by the Cecil family.
context_section_description: Burghley House has been featured in several films. Its virtually unaltered Elizabethan façades and a variety of historic interiors make it an ideal location for historical and period movies.
  Films and television programmes made at Burghley include:
  Middlemarch
  The Da Vinci Code
  Pride & Prejudice
  Elizabeth: The Golden Age
  BBC Two filmed a 15-part series about Burghley broadcast in the Castle in the Country programmes 2006.
  Featured in the 2007 BBC series How We Built Britain
  Burghley House was one of fifteen structures featured in the 2010 BBC series Climbing Great Buildings
  In 2011 Burghley House featured on the TV programme Royal Upstairs Downstairs.
  Housefull 2: The Dirty Dozen Indian Movie 2012
  Antiques Roadshow, Season 20, Episode 18
caption: The courtyard of Burghley House, as drawn by Joseph Nash in the 19th century, but with figures in Elizabethan costume
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