National Park Adventure Tours

Since we started running Pride and Prejudice tours from Manchester, one thing has become obvious: a huge number of our guests aren't casual Austen fans. They're devotees of the BBC's 1995 series specifically - people who grew up on the six-part adaptation, who can tell you exactly which episode Mr Darcy emerges from the lake in, and who came on our combined tour hoping for more time with their Pemberley than a shared itinerary could really give them. So from this November, we're launching a...

Here's something most people don't realise about the 1995 Pride and Prejudice: Pemberley isn't one house. It's two. Lyme Park, with its grand Palladian front and sweeping deer park, gave the production its exterior - the view that makes Elizabeth stop in her tracks, the grounds behind Mr Darcy's famous unplanned swim. But when the cameras moved inside, they weren't at Lyme Park at all. They were 45 miles south, in a different county, inside a house built by a man most Austen fans have never...

There's a particular kind of goosebumps that comes from standing somewhere you've only ever seen on screen. For Pride and Prejudice fans, the Peak District offers that feeling again and again - two entirely different Pemberleys, the village that played Lambton, the rocks where Elizabeth paused to take in "the untamed beauty of the peaks," and the real market town Jane Austen is widely believed to have had in mind when she invented Lambton in the first place. Ramshaw Rocks, Peak District...