The backdrop of the Downton Abbey story is Lord Grantham's majestic estate. But in reality, the show's titular Jacobethan mansion is known as Highclere Castle, and serves as the home of the 8th Earl ...

As my shuttle van drove through the park gates and wound its way up Highclere Castle’s imposing driveway, the driver began playing the Downton Abbey soundtrack. While in any other circumstance this ...

She made Highclere Castle famous in her own right, converting it to a hospital for soldiers during World War I ("Downton Abbey" included a conversion of the castle to a convalescent home for injured ...

Fancy an evening of decadent cocktails, a banquet dinner and a butler tending to your every (within reason) whim? This might just be the closest you ever get to living like Maggie Smith in Downton ...

NEWBURY, England — An early-morning mist settles over the winding roads and rolling hills dotted with sheep, just waking to another day beneath steel-gray skies. It’s a setting straight out of a ...