Which English counties provide the main settings for Pride and Prejudice?

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Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy and Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet in period costumes stand outdoors in a scene from the 1995 television series Pride and Prejudice. — Pride and Prejudice Colin Firth as Darcy and Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet in the BBC TV miniseries *Pride and Prejudice* (1995).

The novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is primarily set in the English counties of Hertfordshire and Derbyshire.1

These locations serve as the backdrop for the social world of the Bennet family and the various estates visited by the characters, including the family home of Longbourn and Mr. Darcy’s grand estate, Pemberley.12