Showtimes was invited to England to see some of the filming locations for Downton Abbey: A New Era, now available on DVD and Blu-ray.
Over the course of the trip we stayed at Down Hall, an ancient medieval manor that was in existence as early as 1021, but the building that currently stands there was completed in 1873. It went through many incarnations over the years, and just after the time the latest Downton Abbey movie takes place, Down Hall became a “horsey and fashionable girls boarding school,” where the mother of Diana Princess of Wales — Frances Shand Kydd — was a student in the 1950s.
