EXCLUSIVE RICHARD EDEN: Sir Philip Williams puts his Bridehead estate - which featured in ITV crime drama Broadchurch - on the market for £30million By Richard Eden for The Daily Mail Published: 22:02, 4 June 2024 | Updated: 22:28, 4 June 2024 e-mail 2 View comments On the face of it, there would seem to be few disadvantages to inheriting a baronetcy and a 2,000-acre estate – certainly not when the estate, set in the most glorious part of Dorset, includes an entire village and a Regency pile of such unsullied charm that it has featured in a hit crime drama series. But Sir Philip Williams, owner of the splendid Bridehead estate, might disagree. After his house and grounds appeared in ITV series Broadchurch – as the backdrop for a rape, investigated by David Tennant and Olivia Colman – he lamented that fans were turning up whenever they felt like it, to the extent that he and his wife, Catherine, found people loitering on the lawn.
Now, I can disclose, they are selling up – for £30million. Sir Philip, 74, the seventh generation of his family at Bridehead, declines to say whether his decision has in any way been influenced by the rush of visitors – who, by one local account, 'plagued' the family – following its Broadchurch appearance. A sprawling country estate that was used to film ITV drama Broadchurch is on the market for £30m The estate is being sold by Sir Philip Williams (pictured), whose family have owned it for more than 200 years But David Hebditch, of Ca.