A 2026 reimagining of Emily Brontë’s classic, Wuthering Heights trades traditional gothic gloom for a provocative, synth-pop-infused fever dream and was filmed across various breathtaking locations, many in Yorkshire.
Some scenes were captured in Kent, such as at Knole Park, a medieval deer park in Sevenoaks, and on the dramatic moorlands of the Yorkshire Dales - including Swaledale and Bridestones Moor, and the villages of Reeth and Low Row. A couple of key scenes were filmed here in Rotherham.
The Needle's Eye is one of a number of follies surrounding Wentworth Woodhouse, a magnificent Grade I listed mansion that has itself provided the backdrop to a number of big screen productions.
On a former avenue to Wentworth Park's North Lodge, The Needle's Eye is a pyramid structure pierced by a narrow, ogee carriage arch.
For Wuthering Heights, this is where a young Cathy and Heathcliff take shelter from the rain in childhood, and where they reunite as adults, played by Robbie and Elordi, to (spoiler alert) confess their love for each other. It's where Heathcliff utters the line: "So kiss me and let us both be damned."
Talking to Cosmopolitan, Aurelia Thomas, Supervising Location Manager for Wuthering Heights, said: "It was a process finding that, because it needed to feel like a bit of a landmark, that the children rush to in the rain, and then the adults go back to. So we shot in Kent, and then we travelled, this travelling circus of trucks, up to South Yorkshire."
You can see glimpses of the scenes in the official trailer for the film below.
Joe Leech, a volunteer in the research team at Wentworth Woodhouse discussed the Needle's Eye on video last year. He said: "We can't put a positive date on it. The Earl of Malton, who became the first Marquis of of Rockingham, his building accounts between 1722 and 1730 mention an oblisk in Lee Wood.
"It's got a bit of a legend about it. It was stated that the Earl of Malton had it built to win a wager that he could drive a coach and horses through the eye of a needle. Further on in time the seventh Earl Fitzwilliam tried to prove that this could be done, and he drove a coach and horses also through it.
"On the east side of Needle's Eye we have evidence of musket ball shot. Now whether this was used by the children of the house or something more sinister, we will never know."
Film fans should know that Wentworth Woodhouse stood in for the Royal Academy in London for Mike Leigh's Mr Turner, and for Oscar winning feature film, Darkest Hour, the Whistlejacket room was used as interior of Buckingham Palace. The famous Marble Saloon also played host to the Downton Abbey movie.
Wuthering Heights is also not the first film to choose a Wentworth folly either. For example, Hoober Stand became "Santa's magic postbox" in the 2014 British Christmas comedy film, Get Santa, starring Jim Broadbent and Stephen Graham.
You can look out for Rotherham in Wuthering Heights which is now showing at Arc Cinema on Forge Island in Rotherham town centre.
You could even recreate the scenes yourself (providing you go when it is raining) by completing the stunning 4 mile Wentworth Countryside Walk that takes in the Needle's Eye. Please take care as the folly is a Grade II-listed building.
Wentworth Woodhouse website
Images: Warner Bros. / Wentworth Woodhouse
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