After introducing the world to Phoebe Dynevor and Regé-Jean Page’s blistering, bodice-ripping chemistry in 2020, Shonda Rhimes’s Bridgerton is returning in 2022, promising us another dose of romp-worthy period romance. This time around, the Netflix hit’s second chapter explores the tension between Jonathan Bailey’s Anthony Bridgerton, and newcomer Simone Ashley’s Kate Sharma, in what is slated to be a slow-burning, enemies-to-lovers narrative as compelling as the first. Some things, however, will remain the same: the jaw-dropping costumes, witty back-and-forths, and of course, the idyllic scenery.

Much of this season, unlike the season one, was filmed in a 110,000-square-metre studio in London. Several key settings in the first chapter of the series, which took place in real-life locations around Bath and London, were swapped out for intensely detailed sets, including an expansive (and utterly convincing) cobblestone street. Where Bridgerton’s modiste Genevieve Delacroix, played by Kathryn Drysdale, worked from Bath’s Abbey Green in season one, season two has her listening in on the Ton’s latest gossip from the show’s studio.

“With sets you sometimes need to put grubbiness into them so you’ve got something to bounce off,” said Bridgerton production designer Will Hughes-Jones to Architectural Digest about the realism of season two’s sets. “Because if everything is all shiny and beautiful and bright colours, you’ll get a bit bored of it after a while. So you need a bit of contrast every so often to pull you back into knowing that it is actually a very grand space.”

Nevertheless, several real-life locations still feature prominently in Bridgerton season 2. Below, we take you through the London estates and English greenery that you’ll be able to spot on-screen.

1. Ranger’s House, Greenwich

The red-bricked Bridgerton abode, whose iron gate and stone entrance is draped in dreamy wisteria, owes its facade to Greenwich’s Ranger’s House, first built for the British Admiralty in 1723. Priced at approximately £35,233,027 (AU$61.9 million), this Grade I-listed building is also home to an art collection owned by Sir Julius Wernher.

2. Syon Park Conservatory, London

Of course Bridgerton’s second season had to begin with a lavish ball. The first episode, which sees all the characters attend a dance hosted by Lady Danbury, was filmed at the domed conservatory at Syon Park in London, which houses an incredible nursery of exotic plants—all of which form the backdrop to the Ton’s early festivities, as well as Kate Sharma and Anthony Bridgerton’s verbal sparring.

3. Holburne Museum, Bath

Bath’s Holburne Museum forms the exterior of Lady Danbury’s high society home in Bridgerton’s second season, valued at an impressive £44,534,990 (AU$78.2 million). The interior of Lady Danbury’s house however, which season two gives us our first glimpse of, was composed of a series of intricately built sets.

4. Hampton Court Palace, London