Bridgerton Season 3 Part 1 premiered this week, once more spiriting gentle Netflix viewers to the magical world of Regency era London. Well, sort of. As anyone who’s been to London before or watched Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock or even that run of UK-based episodes of Friends, modern London doesn’t exactly look like it does in Bridgerton! Limestone townhouses have been replaced by high rises and the asphalt-paved streets are trafficked by cars and double deckers, not carriages and pedestrians. So where was Bridgerton filmed? The reality about Bridgerton Season 3’s filming locations is they’re kind of scattered all over Great Britain, but the most iconic exteriors all seem to be based around one town in particular.
Super obsessed with Bridgerton and want to feel like Penelope (Nicola Coughlan) or Eloise (Claudia Jessie) walking down cobbled streets, gossiping about the Ton? Dying to find out where all your favorite Bridgerton characters’ houses really are? Simply super into castles and architecture?
Whatever your reason for being curious, here’s what you need to know about Bridgerton Season 3’s filming locations…
So where was Bridgerton Season 3 shot? According to RadioTimes, locations manager Tony Hood was set on upping the ante for the third season of the Netflix hit: “[W]e were on the hunt looking for bigger places, instead of trying to make the same old places look a little bit different.”
New locations include Kingston Bagpuize House in Oxfordshire, which is the Mondrich family’s new home as young Nicky (James Brian) becomes the Baron of Kent. Grimsthorpe Castle doubles as Lord Hawkins home in Season 3 Episode 3, though his hot air balloon was unveiled at Painshill Park. Basildon Park, which is already the exterior of the Featherington garden, now serves as interiors for Lady Tilley Arnold’s (Hannah New) home.
Elsewhere, Halton House and Ranger’s House are still the main sites for the Bridgerton London house as Hatfield House is for the Featherington’s home. Bath’s Holborne Museum is still Lady Danbury’s estate and the town’s Royal Crescent is Grosvenor Square.
Interestingly, one iconic location from Season 1 has been changed up for Season 3. Madame Delacroix’s (Kathryn Drysdale) Modiste shop used to be filmed outside of a café in Bath. Now it’s shot on the aptly named Regency Street in London.
My hot take is that even though you could rent a car and do a whole crawl of each and every site Bridgerton has used in its three seasons and spin-off, the easiest and most fun place to go is just Bath! I say this as someone who literally just traveled to Bath for non-Bridgerton-related reasons and was bowled over by how many times I felt deja vu just rambling around the town.
Like, for instance, I was just leaving a pub close to the Pump Room and realized that the deli next door was literally the exterior of Madame Delacroix’s O.G. Modiste shop! (They even sell Modiste-referencing merch!)
Or the day when I went on the really excellent guided tour of the Royal Theatre, Bath — Shoutout to Joy & Phil, two of the best tour guides ever! (And I’m rough on tour guides, y’all!) — and when they took us behind the theatre to show us where Regency folks arriving in sedan chairs would enter through Beaufort Square and it was literally where Penelope and Eloise walked while discussing the gossip about a “maid” being “with child.”
Then there’s the Circus, the Royal Crescent, the storefront on Trim Street, etc. The whole dang town is like a Regency theme park, except not. There’s tons of cool stuff related to Jane Austen, Roman history, and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to check out. There’s also Persephone Books! Sally Lunn’s Bunns! High tea! Really good gin and really good tonic! (I’m sort of partial to that last one!)
So take it from someone who accidentally took a Bridgerton-themed vacation, if you want to travel to the Bridgerton filming locations, just go to Bath! You can get there easily out of London via a train from Paddington Station, arrive by car or bus, or you can fly into the nearby Bristol Airport. You’re welcome!