house. There are several large lakes with many paths and walks through the fields and woods. Much of Woodchester village was owned by Woodchester Park. Entrance to the park is free with a National Trust pay-and-display car park near the entrance, situated at the western end of the park, off the B4066 road. Toilets for Mansion visitors are provided near the mansion, these are only open when the Mansion is open to the public. The mansion itself has an entrance fee. In popular culture In 1982 a programme in the BBC wildlife series Naturewatch, starring Julian Pettifer, was filmed in Woodchester Park. The topic was Magnetoreception. In 2002 a team of six sceptics and believers of the paranormal, visited the mansion for an episode of LivingTV's Scream Team. The television programme Most Haunted Live featured the house in 2003, and again in 2005. It has become a regular haunt for ghost hunters. The building has featured on several television programmes, including the ghost hunting show Hauntings and Scariest Places On Earth. The mansion is also featured on an episode of Ghost Hunters International. In November 2003, several scenes from an episode of ITV's Magick Eve starring Emma-Jane Portch and concerning the Gothic subculture were filmed within the house along with a performance by the UK Goth band Cauda Pavonis. In the 2006 BBC production of Dracula, Woodchester Mansion was used as Dracula's (played by Marc Warren) dilapidated castle. The library on the ground floor (one of only a few rooms completed within the house) was used as the guest bedroom in which Jonathan Harker (Rafe Spall) was murdered and Abraham Van Helsing (David Suchet) attacked by Dracula. Woodchester Park, including the mansion, was the setting for much of the action in the 2012 novel Caballito by Robin Baker. Under the fictional name of Inchfield Park the valley is occupied by a commune made up of Animists and Wiccans and becomes the scene of a suspected murder. The mansion is shown (with some temporary adjustments) as Gordonstoun in the second series of The Crown. More recently, opening scenes for HBO's His Dark Materials were filmed with the mansion acting as Jordan College, Oxford. References Further reading External links Woodchester Park official web site Bat roosts Country houses in Gloucestershire Grade I listed houses in Gloucestershire Tourist attractions in Gloucestershire Historic house museums in Gloucestershire Stroud District Unfinished buildings and structures Sites