We reached the town of Wilton, parked, and made our way up toward the house. Wilton house is majestic, a grand, Palladian-style manor set on a vast expanse of carefully landscaped grounds and gardens. It put me in mind of Pemberley, Mr. Darcy's fictional country estate in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Actually, the Pemberley scenes for the 2005 movie adaptation starring Kiera Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen were filmed here.

—Elizabeth Winkler, Shakespeare was a Woman and Other Heresies