Alnwick Castle has over 950 years of history to discover, and the origins of the Castle date back to the Norman period. Since 1309, its story has been intertwined with that of the Percy family, a family with a history as illustrious as the castle’s own.
The second largest inhabited castle in the UK, Alnwick has served as a military outpost, a teaching college, a refuge for evacuees, a film set, and not least as a family home. Delve deeper into this extraordinary history and travel through the centuries of this living, evolving castle.
Made famous in the Harry Potter movies Alnwick Castle most recently featured in Transformers: The Last Knight, and as the magnificent Brancaster Castle in Downton Abbey’s 2015 and 2016 Christmas specials. Much earlier it was used in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. The castle is no stranger to film crews!
The Alnwick Garden is one of the world’s most extraordinary contemporary gardens. Discover poisonous plants and treetop walkways or follow walkways of glorious roses and towering delphiniums
This is the Duchess of Northumberland’s vision for a forgotten plot & is now very much a 21st century experience.
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