Highclere Castle is a country house in high Elizabethan style, with park designed by Capability Brown. The 1,000 acre estate once part of much larger estate is in the English Highclere Park, Newbury RG20 9RN. It is the country seat of the Earls of Carnarvon, a branch of the Anglo-Welsh Herbert family.
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TV series Downton Abbey filmed at Highclere Castle is set in an Edwardian country house in 1912. It portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them.
The Crawleys have been the Earls of Grantham since 1772. In the drawing rooms, library and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, live the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, who are as fiercely possessive of their ranks as anyone above.
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