Where Channel 4's GBBO is filmed and how you can visit

Channel 4 show The Great British Bake Off is back on our screens tonight (Tuesday, September 24) with a new dozen contestants poised to tackle various baking challenges.

Judges Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood will watch over the new bakers with presenters Noel Fielding and Alison Hammond on hand for emotional support and a few laughs.

The fabled Bake Off Tent has seen various baking mishaps, incredible bakes and crowned many champions. The show is usually filmed over a 10-week period between April and June, with the bakers able to keep at their normal jobs during the week.

But viewers at home will be wondering where the Great British Bake Off is filmed every year and whether they can visit the filming location.

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Where is The Great British Bake Off filmed?

The Great British Bake Off is filmed on the grounds of Welford Park in Berkshire and has been the setting of the baking show since series five in 2014. The white marquee is pitched near the Welford Park House and the round-tower church.

Unfortunately, Bake Off fans cannot visit the white tent as the marquee is only erected for filming but they can visit Welford Park.

Welford Park was once Henry VIII's deer hunting lodge before being bought by a family in 1618, with the park becoming used for filming by the Bake Off production team, Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.

Welford Park was not always the base of The Great British Bake Off. The first series of Great British Bake Off was filmed in various locations, before production moved to Valentines Mansion in Redbridge for second series and again for Harptree Court in Somerset for third and fourth series.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the show temporarily moved to Down Hall, a Victorian country house and estate, near Hatfield Heath in Essex during 2020 and 2021.