As we were heading to Norfolk for a few days, the first stop had to be Belton Hall. This National Trust property lies not far off the route to King's Lynn, and is an excellent stop for lunch and a short walk round the gardens. There's also a wonderful play area if you have children.
Belton was one of the locations used for filming Queen Charotte; a Bridgerton story, and there are now signs around the grounds pointing out what was filmed and where.
I'd spotted the scenes shot in the Orangery and by the north front but hadn't realised just how many locations had been used. I'll be watching Queen Charlotte again to see if I can spot them all. The most intriguing was oddly an open grassy area where the production company, Shondaland, had proposed building King George's observatory. In the end though they decided to keep the background and CGI the building on top of it.
For the filming of Queen Charlotte the pond in the orangery was boarded over but I think these fantastic fish should have been featured somehow.
Behind the Orangery is a quiet area with flower borders and medlar trees, but again this was altered for Queen Charlotte, becoming the king's vegetable patch, in which he worshiped Venus.
Without the TV drama Belton is a lovely place to sit quietly for a while, listen to the water falling in the fountain, watch bees and butterflies among the flowers, and just relax before the next leg of the journey.
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