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It may have become the last word in aristocratic chic in the US, but American visitors to the UK looking for the real Downton Abbey are ending up disappointed. The Daily Telegraph reports that tourists are arriving in Downton, Wiltshire, asking for directions to "the abbey". It quotes a pub landlord who said: "We had one couple who were absolutely adamant that this was where it was filmed." Perhaps the show's location of Highclere Castle, 40 miles away in Berkshire, is missing a trick – it could arrange for a signpost in Downton pointing the way to the "real" abbey.It may have become the last word in aristocratic chic in the US, but American visitors to the UK looking for the real Downton Abbey are ending up disappointed. The Daily Telegraph reports that tourists are arriving in Downton, Wiltshire, asking for directions to "the abbey". It quotes a pub landlord who said: "We had one couple who were absolutely adamant that this was where it was filmed." Perhaps the show's location of Highclere Castle, 40 miles away in Berkshire, is missing a trick – it could arrange for a signpost in Downton pointing the way to the "real" abbey.
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