More tips on how to get inside Highclere Castle and see other local Downton landmarks. Summer holiday anyone?

Here’s How To Get the Elusive Ticket Inside the Real ‘Downton Abbey’

Destination & Tourism | James Ruggia | April 23, 2015

The Cotswolds have always been one of England’s most beautiful locations and among its most popular with British travelers, but it took “Downton Abbey” to make the region hot with American tourists.

The Cotswolds are a region of stone walls and hedgerows as well as sheep and stately manors. Tours visit filming hotspots such as Bampton, Cogges, Witney, The Swan Inn at Swinbrook and The Old Forge at Shilton, as well as local landmarks such as Blenheim Palace. Oxfordshire’s “Downton Abbey” site is a treasury of Downton travel information for the area.

It’s getting ever more difficult to get into the home of the Crawleys these days even now that the show’s fifth season has come and gone. Certain tour operators are offering an insider’s way to get in despite the fact that pre-booked tickets to Highclere are sold out for 2015.

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