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You Are Standing in The Place Where : A Highclere Castle

The document discusses three locations that have been featured in films and television shows: Highclere Castle in England, which was used to film Downton Abbey; Cortlandt Alley in New York City, which has been used for alley scenes in many films and TV shows set in New York; and Christ Church College in Oxford, England, which was featured in the Harry Potter films and was the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland.

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You Are Standing in The Place Where : A Highclere Castle

The document discusses three locations that have been featured in films and television shows: Highclere Castle in England, which was used to film Downton Abbey; Cortlandt Alley in New York City, which has been used for alley scenes in many films and TV shows set in New York; and Christ Church College in Oxford, England, which was featured in the Harry Potter films and was the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland.

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You are standing in the

place where… 
A   Highclere Castle near Newbury in Berkshire, UK

The castle has been (1) owned by the Carnarvon family


since 1679, and the Earl and Countess Carnarvon currently
live there. In 2010, film director Julian Fellowes, a close
friend of the family, was planning a new TV series about an
aristocratic family and their servants during the early 20th
century. While he was staying at Highclere Castle, he realized
that it would be the perfect place to set his historical drama,
and the castle was (2) into Downton Abbey,
the home of the fictional Crawley family. The series was a
huge success and it has been sold all over the world. Both
the interior and exterior scenes were shot in and around the
castle itself.

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In the second TV series the castle is used as a hospital during
the First World War. These scenes are (3) on
a real-life event. In 1914, Lady Almina Carnarvon allowed
soldiers who had been wounded to be looked after in the
castle.

Go there 

Highclere Castle and gardens are open to the public during


the Easter and summer holidays, and on many Sundays
and public holidays from 10.30 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. Visit the
Egyptian Gallery which contains many objects brought back
from his travels by Lady Almina’s husband, the fifth Earl of
Carnarvon, who famously discovered the tomb of the young
Pharaoh Tutankhamun. www.highclerecastle.co.uk

B   Cortlandt Alley New York, USA


In Hollywood’s version of New York City, the giant metropolis
is full of secret alleys where crimes take place, and criminals
are chased by the police. In fact there are hardly any alleys
in New York today at all. One of the few remaining ones,
Cortlandt Alley, has been (4) for almost all the
alley scenes in films and TV series that are set in New York.
Films with scenes that were shot there include Crocodile
Dundee and Men in Black 3, and TV series like Blue Bloods,
Boardwalk Empire, NYPD Blue, and Law & Order.

Go there 

Thousands of tourists want to be (5) in Cortlandt


Alley. It is on the edge of Chinatown, in Manhattan, between
Franklin Street and Canal Street. In fact it is a perfectly
safe place to visit. In real life, it is not (6)
by gangsters, but is the home for perfectly respectable
businesses such as the New York Table Tennis Federation
Training Center.

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C  Christ Church College
Oxford, UK
This wonderful 16th century college,
with a spectacular tower, which was
(7) by the famous architect
Sir Christopher Wren, has an important
connection with children’s literature. It was
at Christ Church that Charles Dodgson,
professor of mathematics, first met the
children of the Dean (the head of the
College). He used to tell them stories, and
was (8) by one of the girls,
Alice, to write Alice in Wonderland, in
1865, under the pen-name of Lewis Carroll.
Many years later, Christ Church was used
as the setting for several film adaptations
of some other famous children’s books,
the Harry Potter novels. The first time
Harry and his friends enter Hogwarts, they
walk up the Christ Church staircase where
Professor McGonagall is waiting for them
at the top. The dining room in Hogwarts is
the Christ Church Dining Hall. It could not
be used for filming, because it was being
used by students at the time, so it was
recreated in a studio.

Go there

Visitors are (9) throughout


the year. However, as the college is a
working academic institution, some areas
may occasionally be closed to the public.
Opening times: Monday to Saturday:
9 a.m.–5 p.m., Sunday: 2 p.m.–5 p.m.
www.chch.ox.ac.uk

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Glossary
Earl and Countess  titles given to British aristocrats
(people of a high social position)

Hogwarts  the fictional boarding school where Harry


Potter goes

Adapted from a travel website

A001910

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