
As Kennaway points out, the room we see with a tree growing through the wall is from the studio portion: “We didn’t think it would be a good idea to stick a tree in a several-million-pound house,” he says.

Join the email list Why GX Cloud ApWhat makes GX Cloud different from Open Source, and why. It's since been used for films including Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and Philomena, as well as TV staples Inspector Morse, Midsomer Murders and Poirot. Great Expectations Keep up-to-date with GX news, usage tips, interviews, perspectives on the data quality landscape, and moredirect from the GX team. This moated castle dates back to the 14th century and was home to the Earls of Macclesfield, the first of which remodelled it in Georgian style. For the interiors, some were built in studios but other parts were filmed at Shirburn Castle, near Watlington in Oxfordshire. Need additional information about Great Expectations at PVCC Stay connected with GREX by email, phone, text or scheduling an appointment with our online. For this, the production created a composite of three parts, starting with the exterior and gated courtyard of the grand house Myles Place on West Walk, close to Salisbury Cathedral. Since the invention of the moving image an event that happened just a few decades after the death of Charles Dickens there have been at least 18 prominent adaptations of Great Expectations.

OxfordshireĪs in any adaptation of Great Expectations, one of the most striking locations is the home of Miss Havisham, left to fall into ruin after she is jilted at the altar. Here’s David Kennaway’s guide to the places we’ll see behind the fog and frockcoats of Great Expectations. The solution was to choose specific prestige locations in London and then roam the countryside of the south-east (without, funnily enough, using the novel’s setting of Kent) and a little further afield.
