Recent Uses
The grounds are the location of the Land Rover vehicle test track. Each year in June the castle is host to the Landrover World Event and offers visitors the chance to try off roading in the company's latest models.
In 1984, both the band Slade and the BBC made use of the castle. Slade used it to film their video for "Run Runaway" and the BBC to film the exterior shots of Abner Brown's theological college in their adaptation of The Box of Delights. The 1986 film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost was also shot here.
During the summer of 2010 the American reality competition television program, The Amazing Race, filmed a number of tasks of a medieval theme at the castle for the first episode of season seventeen of the program including the first ‘pit stop’ of the race.
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