DOWNTON Abbey could be back on the big screen after the last episode airs this Christmas day.

Julian Fellowes, the creator and writer of the Emmy-winning period drama, told the Mail on Sunday he was thinking about plot lines and had talked about a potential film with co-producer Gareth Neame.

He said: “I think it’s very possible and it would be a fun thing for us to do. I certainly have no objections because the film would be another adventure.”

“It would allow us a freedom of scale that we can’t have while making episodic television.”

The show, currently in its sixth and last season, is now set in 1925. Downton Abbey’s cast and crew were spotted repeatedly in different parts of Oxfordshire since it began filming in 2010.

Bampton, near Witney, doubles as Downton Village, supposedly located in North Yorkshire. The Old Grammar School was featured several times as Downton Cottage Hospital.

The show’s Yew Tree Farm was set up in Cogges Manor Farm, in Witney. During the second season, Lady Sybil, played by Jessica Brown Findlay, planned her elopement at the Swann Inn in Swinbrook, near Burford.