The estate where Barry Lyndon lives after marrying Lady Lyndon is called Castle Hackton.
In Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, the ambitious Irish adventurer Redmond Barry enters aristocratic society and eventually marries the wealthy Lady Lyndon. After the marriage, he adopts the name Barry Lyndon and resides with her family at Castle Hackton, the setting for parts of his new life among the British upper classes.
The estate represents Barry’s social ambition as well as his unstable position. Although marriage gives him wealth and status, he remains an outsider whose behavior creates conflict within the Lyndon household. His relationship with Lady Lyndon’s son, Lord Bullingdon, becomes increasingly hostile.
The film was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray’s 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon. Kubrick used carefully composed period locations and interiors to evoke eighteenth-century society. Castle Hackton is a fictional location in the story, unlike several real places used as filming locations.