Castle Howard Castle Howard Castle Howard is a stately home in North Yorkshire, England, north of York. It is a private residence, and has been the home of the Carlisle branch of the Howard family for more than 300 years. Castle Howard is not a true castle, but this term is also used for English country houses erected on the site of a former military castle. It is familiar to television and film audiences as the fictional "Brideshead", both in Granada Television's 1981 adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited" and a two-hour 2008 remake for cinema. Today, it is part of the
Castle Howard one of the largest country houses in England, with a total of 145 rooms. According to figures released by the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions, nearly 220,000 people visited Castle Howard in 2010. In 2009 an underwater ground-source heat recovery system was installed under the castle's lake that halved the heating bill. Castle Howard has extensive and diverse gardens. There is a large formal garden immediately behind the house. The house is prominently situated on a ridge and this was exploited to create an English landscape park, which opens out from the formal garden and merges with the park. Two