Penshurst Place - Cultural References

Cultural References

• The house and its owners were paid a tribute in Ben Jonson's seventeenth century poem To Penshurst.
• The Great Hall and other interior rooms were used as the interior sets for the 1992 television series Covington Cross.
• The Baron's Hall was used as a set for the Hollywood film The Other Boleyn Girl based on the novel by Philippa Gregory.
• The Baron's Hall was used as a set for the film The Princess Bride.
• The Baron's Hall was also used as a 'banqueting hall' location in the early episodes of BBC TV show Merlin.
• The Baron's Hall again used in the filming of the BBC adaptions of Shakespeare play Henry V - The Hollow Crown due to be broadcast July 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00sm9fp
• There is a local authority housing block called Penshurst in Chalk Farm, London.