Downton
Location information
Location	Yorkshire, England
Affiliation	Downton Abbey

Downton is a small, fictional village in north Yorkshire, England. It contains a post office, a village shop, two public houses, the Grantham Arms and The Dog and Duck, and a railway station. There is also a cottage hospital, the main doctor of which is Dr. Richard Clarkson. There is also a large church, Church of St. Michael of All Angels, with a cemetery beside it.

Downton Abbey, the country house of the Earl and Countess of Grantham, is located in the outskirts of Downton. Crawley House, where Matthew and Isobel Crawley went to live is also located in Downton.

The village is located between the towns of Ripon and Thirsk. A signpost in Downton village shows that Thirsk is 6 miles in one direction, while Ripon is 9 miles in almost the exact opposite direction.^[1]

Behind the scenes Edit

• The village of Downton is depicted by Bampton, in Oxfordshire.
• There is no village of Downton in the real Yorkshire, but the Yorkshire press have attempted to find where it might be.^[2]

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