Days Out For The FamilyHighclere Castle
Basingstoke and Deane, Hampshire
Country house in Hampshire, England, UK
The experience
About this day out
Highclere Castle is a historic and listed house and estate in Newbury, known as the real and fictional home of Downton Abbey. It offers castle tours, gardens and grounds, an Egyptian Exhibition in the Castle cellars, tearooms and a gift shop. The estate also hosts weddings, corporate events and seasonal openings.
When to go
Opening calendar
Tearooms and Castle Gift Shop open from 9:30am during public opening times
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Prices at a glance
- Admission
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Practical details
Facilities & accessibility
At a glance
- Accessibility
- Main State Rooms & Exhibition are accessible for manual wheelchairs; manual wheelchairs available to hire; Upstairs Gallery only accessible via a long steep staircase and may only be accessed by those able to walk unaided at a reasonable speed; visitors who enter using a wheelchair or mobility aid are not permitted to leave their mobility aid/wheelchair anywhere within the house; if unable to view upstairs, photographic albums of the bedrooms are available in the Saloon; motorised wheelchairs are very useful around the Castle lawns
- Parking
- Not provided yet
- Dogs
- Dogs are welcome on the public footpaths which run through part of the estate, but must remain on leads; animals are not permitted in the castle, exhibition or gardens with the exception of Assistance Dogs
Getting there
Where you'll find it
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