Mapperton House and Gardens, Dorset, England, UK. Picturesque location for 2015 film of Thomas Hardy’s novel, Far from the Madding Crowd.


Voted the "Nation’s Finest Manor House" by Country Life Magazine in 2006, and location of the 2015 film ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’. Glorious Jacobean manor with Earl of Sandwich collection, overlooking 15 acre garden with orangery, topiary and borders, descending to ponds and arboretum. Outstanding views of the Dorset hills and woodlands. Mapperton House is the home of the Earl and Countess of Sandwich. The family moved here from Hinchingbrooke House, near Huntingdon, in the 1950s, bringing with it the family collection.


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