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Aug 21, 2019 · In fact, squillions of productions have been filmed in the Cotswolds over the years, from historical dramas to action films, Hollywood romcoms and fantasy epics. You don’t have to be a diehard film buff to enjoy this part of the UK, but the area certainly knows how to draw the stars.
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May 15, 2019 · 19 famous filming locations in the Cotswolds. Imposing manor houses, quiet medieval villages, idyllic swathes of countryside - the Cotswolds offers a lot for location scouts in the film business. We pick 19 famous filming locations in the Cotswolds, as seen on screens big and small. Puzzlewood, Forest of Dean.
- Cotswolds Film Locations Map
- The Broadway Tower
- Stanway House
- Snowshill
- Blockley
- Sudeley Castle
- Cheltenham
- Gloucester
- Lower Slaughter
- Bourton-on-the-Water
The map below shows some of the filming locations around the Cotswolds which have been used in movies and TV shows, with descriptions below to show where they were featured.
Fairytale hilltop folly the Broadway Tower – nicknamed the highest little castle in the Cotswolds – dates back to the late 18th century and is the second-highest point in the Cotswolds, with stunning views across 16 counties on a clear day. On screen, the tower featured as a location in Andie MacDowell rom-com Crush (2001) as well as being used in ...
Jacobean Stanway House is famous for its 300-foot fountain, but its historic good looks have also made it a popular location for period dramas. It was used in The Libertine (2004), with Johnny Depp playing debauched poet the Earl of Rochester, and the adaptation of classic novel Vanity Fair starring Reese Witherspoon (2004). Stanway House also appe...
Pretty Snowshill had its taste of fame in the film Bridget Jones’ Diary (2001), featuring Renee Zellwegger as the unlucky-in-love singleton. The village was the home of Bridget’s parents – and the location of the notorious annual turkey curry buffet. Though as filming took place in July, the village had to be covered in fake snow and Christmaslight...
Cosy whodunnit Father Brown is set in the fictional Cotswold village of Kembleford, but in real life it’s filmed in Blockley. This BBC TV show – now filming its 12th series – is based on the books by GK Chesterton about a crime-solving Roman Catholic priest in the 1950s. Various Blockley locations appear on screen, with the village’s Church of St P...
Sudeley Castle was built in 1442, and is the only private castle in England with a queen buried in its grounds – Henry VIII’s last wife Katherine Parr lived there and is buried in St Mary’s Chapel. The chapel appeared on screen in an episode of Father Brown, and the castle and grounds were also used in TV series including the 1996 adaptation of Emm...
The Regency spa town of Cheltenham has appeared in many films and TV series over the years, passing itself off as anything from Nazi Germany to London during the Napoleonic Wars. The town was the setting for two classic 1970s sitcoms – Butterflies and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin – and also provided locations for Ronnie Barker’s 1980s TV se...
Gloucester’s biggest claim to fame as a film location is the cathedral’s starring role in Harry Potter films The Philosopher’s Stone (2001), The Chamber of Secrets (2002) and The Half-Blood Prince(2009), where the cloisters and corridors were used for various Hogwarts scenes. The cathedral also featured in 2022 comedy film Catherine Called Birdy, M...
Lower Slaughter’s unspoilt views – with no building work taking place in the village since 1906 – makes it the perfect location for period films. In 2020 it was used as a location for Emma, a comedy drama movie based on Jane Austen’s classic book. In the film, Lower Slaughterappears as Highbury, Emma’s home town, with a market set up on the village...
Bourton-on-the-Water might be famous for its beautiful riverside scenery, but it’s a less glamorous location which gives it its spot on our Cotswolds film locations list. In the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day, Pierce Brosnan took part in a icy high-speed car chase in his Aston Martin which was filmed in a Bourton car park, as well as on the e...
Oct 7, 2023 · The impressive Jacobean manor house also played host to film crews for the Johnny Depp drama, The Libertine and costume drama Vanity Fair, in addition to television series including Jeeves and Wooster, The Wyvern Mystery and The Buccaneers. Filming at Clearwell Caves
Oct 18, 2024 · The theater I was part of was a wonderful off-off-Broadway company, which meant our work was exciting and there was no money and we performed at the Home for Contemporary Theater and Art on Walker Street, a theater carved out of a storefront, with seating for something like 80 people, and a backstage with one tiny dressing room and a bathroom we shared with the audience.
5 days ago · It’s not surprising that the Cotswolds has ‘stood in’ for real and fantasy locations in cinema films such as James Bond’s Die Another Day, Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jones’s Diary, The Remains of the Day and the hugely successful Harry Potter adventures.
Nov 9, 2020 · Agatha Raisin is guilty as charged on all these counts, but while M.C. Beaton’s mystery book “cozies” strike me as forgettable, cookie-cutter trifles, the television adaptations of her creations breath new life into timeworn cozy conventions.
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