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The Pursuit of Love is made by glorious English gardens, and I can t wait to go back

The Pursuit of Love is made by glorious English gardens The cast of the BBC show frolic in the gardens of stately homes - and there d be far worse ways to spend your summer Andrew Scott mid-garden frolic in The Pursuit of Love My friend, the travel writer Peter Browne, who died last month, had stayed at some of the world’s most amazing hotels and villas over the years, but if people ever asked him where he would go back to in a heartbeat, he’d say without hesitation, Priest s House, a 16 th Century National Trust cottage at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, because of its unbeatable location within Vita Sackville-West’s extraordinary gardens.

The stately homes behind the Pursuit of Love

The stately homes behind the Pursuit of Love: How BBC s period drama uses Rousham House in Oxforshire and world-famous Badminton to stand in for the Radletts country pile BBC s adaptation of Pursuit of Love premiered last night, featuring Britain s stately homes as filming locations A number of properties stand in for the Radletts family home at Alconleigh, including Rousham House  Badminton and Dyrham Park in Gloucestershire are used for their stunning gardens and period facades 

The Pursuit of Love: New TV drama was filmed in Oxfordshire

In real life it is the home of the Cottrell-Dormer family. An adaptation of the classic Nancy Mitford novel of the same name, it is set in the interwar period and follows Linda Radlett’s (Lily James) journey to find love. The original book forms part of a trilogy and is narrated by Linda’s cousin Fanny Logan, who is also Linda s best friend. Some viewers may have found it awkward watching actor Dominic West play his co-star Lily James father, Matthew Radlett, in the adaption. Dominic s overbearing and short-tempered character was seen in frequent outbursts at lily s heroine Linda - including one scene in which he was threatening his daughter with a whip and also saying he would thrash the character in shock scenes.

Crossed wires: villagers perplexed by phone line mix-up

Crossed wires: villagers perplexed by phone line mix-up Rousham was cut off after a lorry crash but repairs led to a new mum ringing someone else’s husband Openreach relaid the damaged lines after a lorry ploughed into telegraph poles and blames the number problem on the ‘extensive and complex’ nature of the repairs. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images Openreach relaid the damaged lines after a lorry ploughed into telegraph poles and blames the number problem on the ‘extensive and complex’ nature of the repairs. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images Sat 8 May 2021 02.00 EDT When a lorry ploughed into a row of telephone poles on an Oxfordshire highway in March, an entire village was cut off from the outside world. It wasn’t until three weeks later that phone lines and broadband were reinstated in Rousham, near Bicester. Only gradually did residents then realise that they had been reconnected to each other’s phone numbers.

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