As the Polin (Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton) romance takes centre stage in the upcoming third season of Bridgerton, we imagine the Featherington estate will be getting a lot more screen time. Did you know that the Featherington’s home is not a film set, but a real-life location in Bath? No. 1 Royal Crescent was originally built in 1767. The U-shaped multi-home structure consists of 30 houses with a uniform Palladian design to the principal facade. The historical structure now acts as a museum in which you can tour. Interiors have been decorated and furnished just as they might have been in the late 1700s.

Who doesn’t dream of living in the wisteria covered Bridgerton home? The show’s most wistful and beautiful home featured on screen can be found on the edge of London’s Greenwich Park. Ranger’s House is an elegant Georgian villa that now acts as a museum and houses The Wernher Collection, a world class art collection featuring more than 700 works. Built in 1723, the red-brick, medium-sized mansion acted as the official residence of the ‘Ranger of Greenwich Park’.

It seems only right that an opulent real-life palace is all that is fit for Queen Charlotte. Hampton Court Palace, the former home of King Henry VIII, is the on-screen residence for Queen Charlotte, well for the exteriors that is. Located in Richmond, on the banks of the Thames, today Hampton Court Palace is a museum that is a deep dive into public dramas and private lives of Henry VIII, his wives the queens and their children in the world of the Tudor court. While Hampton Court Palace lent its facade to Bridgerton for Queen Charlotte’s palace, interior scenes for the fictional palace were shot at a different location (see below).

Although Hampton Court Palace was used for exterior shots of Queen Charlotte’s Palace, Lancaster House in Westminster was used for the interior. Commissioned in 1825 by the Duke of York, Lancaster House is situated close to Buckingham Palace.

The stunning exterior of Lady Danbury’s house (which featured heavily in season 1) in Bridgerton is in fact a real life museum. Holburne Museum is located in Bath’s Sydney Pleasure Gardens and is the city’s first public art gallery. It’s open to the public so you’re welcome to have a wander.

Once Daphne and Simon are wed they reside in the Duke of Hastings ancestral home, the fictional Clyvedon Castle. But a not-so-fictional castle was used as the set for the newlyweds. Castle Howard was used for the exterior shots of Clyvedon Castle. The real-life castle can be North Yorkshire and is open to the public. The gardens and 70-foot-tall Great Hall are the real draw card at this historical landmark, which began construction in 1699 and took more than 100 years to complete

While Castle Howard was used for the exterior of the Duke and Duchess’ home, Wilton House was used for interior scenes. It is open to the public during peak season so you can catch a glimpse inside the very walls that Bridgerton was filmed. Wilton House is set within 21 acres of landscaped parkland, rose gardens and water features, and sits next to River Nadder and Palladian Bridge.

The site where the Sharma’s met the Bridgerton’s and their families were inextricably linked forever, Lady Danbury’s first ball of the season. The stunning, garden-light filled event was actually filmed at Syon Park, in the Great Conservatory. The historical site, which dates back 600 years, is open to the public so tourists are welcome to explore the ground, house and conservatory.