 To depict Winterfell, both the pilot and season 1 of the television adaptation used the 16th century clock tower and ancient courtyard of the Clearsky Adventure Centre located at Castle Ward in County Down, Northern Ireland.Doune Castle in Stirling, Scotland, which was previously featured as Castle Anthrax in the film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", was also used for exterior scenes.Saintfield Estates stood in as Winterfell's godswood, an enclosed wooded area where characters can worship the old gods beside trees with faces carved in their bark.