Castle Howard wedding map print

Work began in 1699, when the 3rd Earl of Carlisle asked John Vanbrugh to design him a house. Vanbrugh was a playwright then, with no building to his name, and he worked alongside Nicholas Hawksmoor. Between them they started something that took more than a century to finish.

On the artwork you can follow the grounds they shaped. The Great Lake lies to the north of the house, dug in the 1790s. Just beyond the edges of the map, the Temple of the Four Winds sits at the end of the terrace, the Mausoleum stands out in the park with the New River Bridge below it, and Vanbrugh's obelisk, finished in 1714, still stands on the long avenue that leads up to the house.

In 1940 a fire took the great dome, and it was rebuilt in 1960 and 1961. Since then the house has played Brideshead on screen twice, in 1981 and 2008, and turned up again in Bridgerton. A map of your wedding shows something none of that does: the place you said your vows, pinned on the spot, with Welburn, Coneysthorpe and Terrington out in the countryside beyond its edges.