Pride and Prejudice: Longbourn to Pemberley

The novel opens with Mrs Bennet asking her husband whether he has heard "that Netherfield Park is let at last". Mr. Bennet is among the earliest to call on Mr. Bingley, though he had told his wife he would not. The family lives at Longbourn, a village only one mile from Meryton. For the 2005 film the makers chose the moated manor house Groombridge Place in Kent, built in 1662 by Philip Packer with the help of Christopher Wren, and designed its interior to be "shabby chic".

Elizabeth, feeling really anxious, is determined to go to her sister at Netherfield, though the carriage is not to be had. "The distance is nothing, when one has a motive; only three miles." She arrives by herself, through dirty weather, which Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley find almost incredible. The 2005 film used the late-18th-century Basildon Park in Berkshire for Netherfield, closing the house for seven weeks. It was built between 1776 and 1783 for Sir Francis Sykes.

Visitor guidance: Basildon Park is owned by the National Trust and open to the public.

In Chapter XV the Bennet sisters meet Mr. Denny in Meryton, and he "entreated permission to introduce his friend, Mr. Wickham". While they stand talking, Darcy and Bingley come riding down the street. Elizabeth sees both men at once: "Both changed colour, one looked white, the other red." The 1995 BBC series first agreed on Lacock in Wiltshire to stand for Meryton, a village owned almost entirely by the National Trust.

Visitor guidance: Lacock is owned almost entirely by the National Trust and draws visitors with its unspoiled appearance.

Gracechurch Street is the one place here the novel names for real: the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner. Elizabeth jokes that Mr. Darcy "would hardly think a month's ablution enough to cleanse him from its impurities, were he once to enter it". In Chapter XXVII she reaches it herself by noon, after a journey of only twenty-four miles, and Jane is waiting at a drawing-room window. Today it is a main road in the City of London with an entrance to Leadenhall Market.

Location precision: The novel names the street but not the house; the pin marks the street.

Visitor guidance: The nearest Underground station is Monument.

In Chapter XXVIII the carriage leaves the high road for the lane to Hunsford. "The paling of Rosings park was their boundary on one side." Then the Parsonage comes into view: "The garden sloping to the road, the house standing in it, the green pales and the laurel hedge". The 1995 series chose the Old Rectory at Teigh in Rutland as Hunsford parsonage, Mr. Collins's home. The house dates from 1740 and is Grade II* listed.

Mr. Collins and his guests have "a pleasant walk of about half a mile across the park" to Rosings. Elizabeth finds that "the mere stateliness of money and rank she thought she could witness without trepidation", and the dinner is "exceedingly handsome", with all the servants and plate Mr. Collins had promised. The 2005 film cast Burghley House in Lincolnshire as Rosings and the nearby town of Stamford as Meryton. Burghley was built between 1555 and 1587 for Sir William Cecil.

Visitor guidance: Burghley House is open to the public on a seasonal basis.

In the novel Elizabeth is astonished when Mr. Darcy walks into the room, and he begins: "In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed." He speaks well, but he is not more eloquent on tenderness than on pride. The 2005 film took the scene outdoors, to the Temple of Apollo at Stourhead, which it used for the gardens of Rosings. The temple was added in 1765, on an estate part-owned by the National Trust since 1946.

Elizabeth is in "a high flutter" as they turn in at the lodge. Pemberley House is "a large, handsome stone building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills", and she feels that "to be mistress of Pemberley might be something!" The 2005 film used Chatsworth in Derbyshire, with Wilton House, for Pemberley; many believe Chatsworth was Austen's inspiration. It has belonged to the Cavendish family since 1549.

Visitor guidance: Chatsworth House is open to the public.

Pemberley lies within five miles of Lambton, where the Gardiners stay. Elizabeth expects Mr. Darcy to call and is "resolved not to be out of sight of the inn the whole of that morning". Then from the window they see "a gentleman and lady in a curricle driving up the street". For the 2005 film the Inn at Lambton was Haddon Hall, a medieval manor house on the River Wye near Bakewell in Derbyshire, whose origins date to the 11th century.