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Location: Porthgwarra. This unspoiled, secluded cove, surrounded by wildflowers and birds, sits in the St. Aubyn Estates in the Penzance area of Cornwall. Stands in for: Nampara Cove. Memorable ...
- Complete guide to film locations 2015-2018. By The Cornwall Guide. Last updated 12 Jan 2022. As season 4 of Poldark draws to an end I have finally pulled my finger out to provide a thoroughly comprehensive guide to the filming locations used throughout this latest epic TV dramatisation of Winston Graham’s novels.
- Charlestown. The Grade II listed Georgian port of Charlestown, near St Austell, has been a favourite filming location for years and it's easy to see why with its long granite quays and unspoilt backdrop.
- Turnaware Point (River Fal) Set just across the broad waters of the River Fal from the rolling parkland of Trelissick House is the wooded headland of Turnaware Point.
- Bodmin Moor - The bleak beauty of Bodmin Moor is Cornwall's true wilderness. It is one of the few places that even in the middle of summer you can get away from it all.
- Where Is Nampara?
- The Warleggans’ Town House
- Killewarren
- Where Is Tehidy House?
- Where Is Trenwith Filmed in Poldark?
- Sir Hugh Bodrugan’S House
Nampara House in Poldark is placed on Cornwall’s north coast in Winston Graham’s original novels, somewhere around the St Agnes area. The beaches around St Agnes are seen onscreen as part of Ross and Demelza’s estate (along with several National Trust beauty spots on the Lizard Peninsula) but their onscreen house is further inland. Interiors and Na...
The Warleggan house Poldark location is in fact Dyrham Park. This 17th Century stately home is situated between Bristol and Bath, and from the Tudor era to the mid-20th Century, the house was the home of the Blaythwayts. As lawyers and merchants they turned over generous profits. Like Ross Poldark’s rival, their financial success brought status and...
Great Chalfield Manor. By Neosnaps (Great Chalfield reflected) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Great Chalfield Manor near Bath is Poldark’s Killewarren filming location. If it looks familiar, you might have spotted it in The Other Boleyn Girl or Wolf Hall – this house is popular with film productions...
Sir Francis Basset’s grand country house, Tehidy, features increasingly often as Ross Poldark and George Warleggan move into the historical figure’s political circle. Tehidy House is real and is situated in Illogan on Cornwall’s north coast. It was once the seat of the respected Bassets, and the manor was founded on the family’s copper mining fortu...
Chavenage House. Philip Halling [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Trerice near Newquay is said to have inspired Winston Graham’s original Trenwith. Built by Cornwall’s grand Arundell family (approximately equivalent to the Chynoweths), the house is now run by the National Trustand open to the pub...
Horton Court. Marion Dutcher [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons The Bodrugans really were a prominent Cornish familywith heraldry dating back to the 13th Century. Daphne du Maurier featured the family in her novel, The House on the Strand, but we know them best as the boisterous gentry with a soft...
Aug 18, 2019 · Poldark has been based at Bristol-based filming studio The Bottle Yard ever since the first series filmed in 2014. Major interior sets were built at the studio, as well as the production offices ...
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Jul 16, 2019 · 1. Bodmin Moor. The majority of filming took place on the stunning green landscapes of Bodmin Moor. Measuring at 208 square kilometers, it provides the ideal backdrop for the show's outdoor scenes ...
Filming locations often mark one of the final chapters in the life of a novel, but special places can also provide the earliest sparks of inspiration to authors. National Trust places were important to Winston Graham when he wrote the original novels. Francis Poldark’s estate at Trenwith was inspired by Trerice, while Gurnard’s Head near ...
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Sep 5, 2016 · The Poldark series is set in Cornwall and is well known for cliff-top scenes and sweeping sea vistas. In fact, the dramatic coastline is as much a feature in the show as Ross and Demelza’s epic love story…. Aidan Turner and Eleanor Tomlinson as Ross and Demelza Poldark. Photo: BBC/Mike Alsford.
