Castle Howard is set to feature on a new Channel 4 documentary series.
Great States from Above is a four-part series using state-of-the-art drone and aerial photography highlighting Britain’s most historic and impressive estates, with one episode dedicated to the North Yorkshire stately home.
The Castle Howard episode is due to broadcast on More4 on Thursday 16 October at 9pm.
The series opened with Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire last week, with Burghley House and Penshurst Place featuring in subsequent episodes.
The programme follows the Castle Howard team and Howard family in 2025, going behind the scenes on the landmark Castle Howard’s 21st Century Renaissance project which opened to visitors in April this year.
This project was a once-in-a-generation feat restoring Castle Howard’s Tapestry Drawing Room which was destroyed in a catastrophic fire in 1940, and a major rehang of the public interiors, involving a huge team of craftspeople, staff and volunteers.
Great Estates from Above also follows Castle Howard’s nature and conservation initiatives shadowing the Estate’s Natural Environment team and Conservation Volunteers as they embark on habitat conservation works.
This work includes creating banks of scrub to protect baby trees and welcoming a herd of rare-breed goats to their new woodland home.
Abbi Ollive, Castle Howard’s visitor attraction director, said: “We were delighted to welcome Channel 4 back to Castle Howard to follow the Estate’s activities earlier this year, and thrilled they were able to go behind the scenes on the 21st Century Renaissance project which was a major milestone in Castle Howard’s recent history.
“The beautiful aerial footage captured by the team show how special Castle Howard, the Howardian Hills and wider North Yorkshire countryside really are, as well as highlighting the people that work so hard to restore, conserve and maintain it.”
Great Estates from Above featuring Castle Howard will air tomorrow (Thursday 16 October) on More4 at 9pm.
