Bridgerton: From Bath to London

Bridgerton is set in London, yet most of its street scenes were shot in Bath, and the Royal Crescent is the showpiece. The sweeping row of 30 terraced houses, built between 1767 and 1774, was used from the first season, and No. 1 Royal Crescent plays Grosvenor Square. The crescent is a Grade I listed building with 114 Ionic columns along its 500-foot front. No. 1 is now a house museum, so you can walk the façade and then step inside a Georgian townhouse.

Visitor guidance: No. 1 Royal Crescent is a museum; the crescent itself is a public street.

The Holburne Museum, Bath's first public art gallery, plays the house of Lady Danbury in the first two seasons. The front of the building and its garden appear on screen, and the same house returned in the spin-off Queen Charlotte. In real life it holds paintings by Gainsborough, Guardi, Stubbs and Ramsay, and a café that opens onto Sydney Gardens. That makes it an easy stop for a walk through the gardens, past the same frontage the series filmed.

Visitor guidance: The museum has a café opening onto Sydney Gardens.

When the series needs the Bridgerton family's London home, the camera shows the exterior of Ranger's House: a medium-sized red brick Georgian mansion in the Palladian style, beside Greenwich Park in Blackheath. Only the outside is Greenwich. The interiors of the Bridgerton and Featherington homes were filmed at Halton House at RAF Halton, so the front door you see belongs to a different building from the rooms behind it.

Anthony Bridgerton and Simon Basset meet at the Reform Club, and the production filmed it in the real thing, a private members' club on the south side of Pall Mall in central London. The scene gives the series a genuine gentlemen's club rather than a set. Club membership is private, so this stop is a look from the pavement at the Pall Mall frontage.

The grittier side of the story was shot far from the London drawing rooms. The scene in which Lady Featherington takes Marina to the slums was filmed at Chatham Dockyard in Kent, and the boxing scenes were shot here too. The dockyard suits the job: it has cobbled streets, a church and more than 100 buildings from the Georgian and Victorian periods, which is why so many productions film here.

Visitor guidance: The historic dockyard keeps its cobbled streets and Georgian and Victorian buildings.

London's park and palaces were largely shot in the Wiltshire countryside. The grounds of Wilton House were used for Hyde Park, and its interiors stood in for Simon's Hastings House, the Clyvedon estate interior and a throne room at St James's Palace. The house has been the seat of the Earls of Pembroke for over 400 years, so it has plenty of rooms of the right grandeur to borrow.

Castle Howard, 15 miles north of York, is the Clyvedon estate, and the nearby village of Coneysthorpe plays the Clyvedon village. The house was also blended with the remains of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens and Stowe Park to recreate the gardens for Lady Danbury's ball, because Vauxhall no longer exists in its entirety.

For season 2 the Bridgertons' country home, Aubrey Hall, is Wrotham Park, a neo-Palladian house in South Mimms, Hertfordshire, designed by Isaac Ware in 1754 for Admiral John Byng. West Wycombe Park supplied the Aubrey Hall interiors, so the exterior and the rooms inside belong to two different houses.

The finale ball of season 2 was filmed at Basildon Park, and its garden room and parterre were used for an evening party scene. The National Trust house was built between 1776 and 1783 for Sir Francis Sykes. It is a fitting last stop for a route that began on the streets of Georgian Bath.

Visitor guidance: National Trust property.