provided this summary: "C19 and C20 formal gardens and pleasure grounds, developed from those originally designed by Lancelot Brown, surrounded by a park of C16 origins for which Brown provided extensive plans between 1754 and 1777". The residents of the house since 2007 were Miranda Rock, director of the Burghley House Preservation Trust, granddaughter of the 6th Marquess of Exeter and daughter of Lady Victoria Leatham with Orlando Rock (chairman of Christie's UK) and their family. Data before the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom indicated that the number of visitors to the site each year had almost doubled during Miranda Rock's tenure, to 110,000. Filming Burghley House has been featured in several films and television programmes including: Middlemarch (1994); The Da Vinci Code; Pride & Prejudice (2005); Elizabeth: The Golden Age; Housefull 2: The Dirty Dozen; The Crown; The Flash; Treasure Houses of Britain (1985); Castle in the Country (2006); How We Built Britain; Climbing Great Buildings (2010); Royal Upstairs Downstairs; Antiques Roadshow; Top Gear; and Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing. Lost village The medieval settlement of Burghley, mentioned in Domesday, was abandoned by 1450. Failure to locate its site leads to the supposition that the settlement was near Burghley House, and perhaps lies below the estate. See also Burghley Nef, a silver-gilt salt cellar now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum Susanna and the Elders (1622) by Artemisia Gentileschi in the collection at Burghley Cecil House, 16th- and 17th-century demolished London residences Theobalds House, second house half-way to London, built by the founder in Hertfordshire Notes Citations References Impey, Oliver, "Japanese Porcelain at Burghley House: The Inventory of 1688 and the Sale of 1888" (PDF): Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 37 (2002) Further reading Giorgi, Raffaele de. "Couleur, couleur!" – Antonio Verrio: un pittore in Europa tra Seicento e Settecento (Edifir, Firenze 2009). Description of the St Martin's parish, which mentions the visits of Queens Elizabeth and Victoria to Burghley House. External links Burghley House entry from The DiCamillo Companion to British & Irish Country Houses Images of England entry for Burghley House Photos of Burghley House and parklands on geograph Art museums and galleries in Cambridgeshire Buildings and structures in Peterborough ! Country houses in Cambridgeshire Decorative arts museums in England Elizabethan architecture Gardens by Capability Brown Grade I listed buildings in Cambridgeshire Grade I listed houses Grade II* listed parks and gardens in Lincolnshire