Where was The Other Bennet Sister filmed?

While we've got nothing against Elizabeth Bennet personally, she's enjoyed more than her fair share of time in the spotlight. The same, however, cannot be said for her sister Mary, who takes centre stage in the aptly titled The Other Bennet Sister.

The 10-part BBC drama, based on Janice Hadlow's novel of the same name, stars Ella Bruccoleri (Call the Midwife, Bridgerton) as the "seemingly unremarkable and overlooked" middle Bennet child who leaves her family home for Regency London and the rolling peaks of the Lake District.

It's there where she finally begins to come into her own – and finds herself "in the middle of an epic love story along the way".

"I think Mary has spent her childhood wishing she was Lizzie Bennet and it's only when she breaks away that she realises she doesn't have to be," Bruccoleri told Radio Times magazine.

Bruccoleri stars in the series alongside several familiar faces, including Ruth Jones and Richard E Grant as Mrs and Mr Bennet, who all gathered for filming in Wales.

But where, exactly, were they based?

Read on for a rundown of the main locations in The Other Bennet Sister.

The Other Bennet Sister filming locations

The Other Bennet Sister was predominantly filmed in Wales.

Key locations included:

• Dyffryn House and Gardens, Vale of Glamorgan - the poetry reading scene was filmed in the Pompeian Garden.
• St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff.
• Llancaiach Fawr Manor, Caerphilly - the museum doubled as the inside of the inn.
• Penpont House, Brecon - doubled as Meryton Village.
• Brecon Beacons - the boat scenes on Lake Windermere were filmed on a private lake in the Brecon Beacons, and Scafell Pyke mountain was actually the Black Mountains.
• Longbourne is actually a private house in Bridgend.

Ella Bruccoleri told Country and Town House that she "loved" filming in Wales.

"I can't speak highly enough about it; it was like a revelation for me," she added. "I'd only been there once, and I was like, 'Oh my God, this is the most beautiful country in the world!' I was blown away by it.

"Some of our locations had to stand in for the Lake District so we did a lot of filming in the Brecon Beacons and on all these beautiful lakes. It was quite breathtaking. There were days when Dónal [Finn] and I just had to row on a lake all day while they captured shots of us in the sun; it was incredible."

Read more:

• The Other Bennet Sister centres on Mary Bennet for better and worse
• The Other Bennet Sister's Ella Bruccoleri on stepping into Austen's world and stepping away from Call the Midwife

For Ruth Jones, it was a homecoming.

"I love coming back to Wales," she told the BBC. "I recognise so many crew members I've worked with before, and it makes me proud that we’re creating a production like this here.

"Locations like St Fagans Folk Museum are places I’ve known since childhood."

Some scenes were also filmed in Bristol, including on Orchard Street, which doubled as Cheapside in London, near St Paul's Cathedral.

The Other Bennet Sister premieres on BBC One and iPlayer on Sunday 15 March 2026.

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