The Pursuit of Love is made by glorious English gardens The cast of the BBC show frolic in the gardens of stately homes - and there'd be far worse ways to spend your summer Andrew Scott mid-garden frolic in The Pursuit of Love My friend, the travel writer Peter Browne, who died last month, had stayed at some of the world’s most amazing hotels and villas over the years, but if people ever asked him where he would go back to in a heartbeat, he’d say without hesitation, Priest's House, a 16 th Century National Trust cottage at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, because of its unbeatable location within Vita Sackville-West’s extraordinary gardens.