Note 26

In the Bridgerton story, Aubrey Hall is canonically located in Kent, southeast of London. During the Regency era, a horse-drawn carriage journey over that distance to the city would typically take anywhere from 4 to 24 hours, largely depending on the weather and road conditions. [1, 2]

For the filming of the show, however, producers used a different real-world estate located just north of London: [1, 2, 3]

• Filming Location: Aubrey Hall’s exterior scenes were filmed at Wrotham Park in Hertfordshire. [1, 2]

• Distance to London: This estate sits just south of the M25 near Potters Bar, making it only about 14 miles (roughly a 40-minute drive or about a 2 to 3-hour carriage ride in the 1800s) from central London. [1, 2, 3, 4]

• Other Sites: The famous gardens and the orangery at Aubrey Hall were filmed at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire, while the grounds used for horseback riding scenes were shot at Windsor Great Park in Berkshire. [1, 2, 3, 4]