Famous UK film locations

To offer people UK travel inspiration, we’ve been building a gallery of famous film locations.

Film people are expert at finding great locations for the obvious reasons.  I remember watching Val Kilmer acting a scene from ‘The Saint’ outside the Bodleian Library in Oxford in the 1990s.  The BBC shot a scene from a Charles Dickens’ novel in a house we used to live in within the village of Hambleden, Berkshire a couple of years later.  Then there was Johnny Depp in a forest by Henley-on-Thames and Spielberg’s ‘Band of Brothers’ in roughly the same area.  Recently, we took the little people for a picnic on top of a hill in the middle of nowhere in the Pewsey Vale, Wiltshire when half a dozen US WW2 vehicles pulled up with twenty or so actors in full army kit.  No idea what they were doing but we left when they said they needed to fire guns.

Watching them work was pretty dull to be honest.  There is an astonishing amount of standing around and the line ‘then we must celebrate’ from the Dickens’ adaptation will stay in my mind forever becasue they shot the short scene about twenty times in a row.  Nice people did stop the shoot so we could feed our dog though.

Back to the locations, if you could add any UK film locations or @picturetheuk on Twitter that would be appreciated.

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