The Downton Abbey Locations of Lacock, Cogges & Bampton | Documentary Featuring Hugh Bonneville 

this was one of my aunt's most favorite television shows. She was the one that got me to watching the show. I miss her so very much she was taken way too soon.

So pleased the grammer school has been restored

Have you seen the new Downton Abbey film, A New Era yet? Let us know what you thought, and where your favourite Downton location is 😊

Robin, your thoughts are mine excatly - life goes on and we must progress, but with an eye on the rear view mirror. Love the Aussie Akubra too !

Very nice documentary.

Oh wonderful! We lived at Lacock as a kid a few years in the most friendly, wonderful house I ever been in!!

The film and narration are so clear to see and hear. Congratulation for this work.

It's such a beautiful part of the country, thank you for being it alive for us. I love this channel. and loved the hat too, well wear!

Such a fantastic place 👍 Thank you for sharing.

Taking the footpaths in Lacock are wonderful. I suggest when you visit you take the paths. I adore Lacock.

Wonderful,as always,thank-you.

Thank you for the walk about in this lovely part of Cotswold! Your hat suits you❤️

You have made some interesting points about Lacock and these places we love so much, sometimes TOO much. There needs to be a delicate balance in managing these unique places. I enjoyed ‘revisiting’ places I have seen in my travels and am hoping to see he latest Downton Abbey movie. Right smart hat you have there, Robin! 👍👍👍

Robin you looked so relaxed in the museum kitchen.Beautifully filmed and narrated as always.

So interesting 👍many thanks for sharing 👍

This was a lovely virtual experience. I was surprised to see barely any "Canadian pins" on the map of Bampton visitors!

Lacock is also where several scenes from Harry Potter were filmed. Lacock is Godric's Hollow, and the abbey was used to film some of the Hogwart's corridor scenes. The home at the end of Church St. was the original Potter home in the first movie, where Voldemort attacked them, and left Harry an orphan.

It is surely a delicate task to preserve the beauty, history or character of a place without turning it into a museum or something else unlivable.

Thanks for another wonderful show, Robin! I take my guests to all the places you mentioned. I love your inside knowledge about Bampton. I imagine it can be a difficult place to live in, but it is plain to see how much you love it. I love what you have done to the library. The hat isn't bad, either!

I'm a recent subscriber, I love these videos. I so love the cotswolds, family living there, Cheltenham, Stroud, Tewkesbury. Lived a short time in Chipping sudbury. Downtown, was lovely, historic, scenic and rural.

Love the hat tale! Great video! Enjoy you so much!

Thank you.

Great video Robin and I'm so pleased that the refurbishment is now complete as I have been watching lots of your videos lately and it was great to hear Hugh Bonneville too. That was an interesting story about your hat, the new one is very nice and suits you well.

The new heat is perfect.

What beautiful locations. Can you please tell me the name of the music you used in the intro?

Always great with a turn of phrase: any stray children LOL

Wow if you took me into the library building blindfolded and showed me the new library I would never had guessed it was the same library I used in the late 1970's and early 80's. Funnily enough I now live a short distance from Lacock and I agree it is now so film set like, (almost Disney like) many of the property's are empty because they are too expensive to rent. I would hate that Bampton would end up the same.

Therein lies the dilemma: how do we keep loving these places so enthusiastically without ruining the very thing we wish to celebrate and preserve?

The point you raise about 'preservation' is most pertinent, i feel. Lacock and similar towns and villages, are not, museum exhibits in display cases; they are much larger and more variegated entities - living communities. As such, preservation should be sensitive to local history and tradition, but sensitive also to the needs of the present living community and its future. This can be difficult and often entail conflicts of interest. But, if not done, such towns and villages risk becoming picturesque facades, whose inhabitants live a shadowy, ghost-like, existance, venturing out only when the last tourists have departed. Preservation therefore, can risk destroying what makes a living community in the first place: the daily lives and activities of its inhabitants across generations.

Love the hat,stylish..as always

Lacock has been well and truly national trusticated. I much preferred it in the 70's. Sign of the times hey ho

My cousin lives in Bibury - she has tourists entering her garden and peering through her windows. They think its some kind of quaint amusement park.

I would add Lower Slaughter to the list of soulless Cotswolds villages. A dreadful place.