derbyshire {part two} : our visit to jane eyre's "thornfield"

our wonderful b&b host recommended we visit haddon hall.

i knew this manor had been used in the bbc's version of jane eyre,

but once i started walking around i had a serious suspicion that

this was also "thornfield" in the most recent jane eyre film.

oh. my. heart. but i couldn't verify it {since i was mistrusting google at the moment}.

what i did know is that i loved haddon hall so much more than chatsworth.

it's so much older {one wall dating back to the 11th century!}

and has more of a magical and mysterious feel. i can totally see

why haddon hall would be a perfect candidate for "thornfield."

a few days later when we were on our flight home, lucky for me,

one of my movie choices was jane eyre!

so my mom, my sister, and i all watched jane eyre and were

having oh so much fun pointing out all of the very places we had been:

in the chapel where the marriage is interrupted, in that large room with beautiful green window panes,

in the kitchen where the servants are busy preparing for unexpected guests,

looking over the countryside where a horse got spooked, and jane desperately runs away,

the large dining hall with beautiful wood panelling, the gardens {the gardens!}, 

the little "house" where rochester finds refuge after the fire, and on and on and on.

so glad we made it here.

watch this little featurette below and see if you can see the similarities between my photos and the movie set