This is how some nobles are making money by renting their castles for film shoots. "We are talking about considerable checks", said the owner of a well-known building in Kent.

Among them, Lord Camoys - owner of an estate in Oxfordshire, where a Bond film was filmed in 1987 and A Christmas Carol in 2019 - and Richard FitzHerbert, who lives in the mansion where the series Peak Practice and another adaptation of BBC Eyre were filmed. When businesswoman Helen Gill bought her house in Yorkshire, she learned that Netflix had booked the site to film The War Below.