Lacock and Lacock Abbey
Lacock
A village almost entirely owned by the National Trust. The abbey is the birthplace of photography and a filming location for Harry Potter.
Lacock is a medieval village about 20 km east of Bath, and almost the whole village is managed by the National Trust. Its streets have no telegraph poles or modern signs, so it is often used as a location for period dramas. Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Harry Potter were both filmed here. The cloisters of Lacock Abbey beside the village are the Hogwarts corridors from the films. The village was also home to photography pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot, who in 1835 made the world's oldest surviving photographic negative here. The Fox Talbot Museum displays it. Admission to the abbey is about £20.
Opening hours
Village open all day; monastery approx. 10:00–17:00
Nearby sights
- Castle Combe
- Prior Park Landscape Garden
- Holburne Museum
- Pulteney Bridge
- Sally Lunn's Historic Eating House
- Bath Abbey
- Roman Baths
- Thermae Bath Spa