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Leisure - Attractions - Film Locations
Outside Filming in Wiltshire

Film Locations in Wiltshire
Over the years, Wiltshire has been used as the backdrop for a number of big budget movies, lavish TV dramas and star studded comedies. From Bond to Pride and Prejudice and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves to Harry Potter the rolling Wiltshire countryside, ancient villages and stately homes are proving far from camera shy.

A visit to the region will allow you to see for yourself the wide variety of settings used in many of your favourite movies and television dramas. 

Bowood

Calne
Walk Away And I Stumble Filming for ITV's two-part production began inside St Mary's Church in Calne where former Eastenders star Tamzin Outhwaite walked down the aisle as a bride for the fifth time in her filming during June 2005.

Bowood

Chippenham
Walk Away and I Stumble - Tamzin Outhwaite continued her filming as a runaway bride in her documentary filming ‘Walk Away and I Stumble’ Jun 2005.
Pride and Prejudice filmed at Luckington Court, Chippenham
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders, starring Diana Rigg 1996 - Set in the 18th century, the story of Moll Flanders, from moody-teenager to becoming a prostitute in a whore-house. Despite her problems, Moll’s indomitable spirit shines through.

Castle Combe

Castle Combe
Stardust - Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Sienna Miller all featured in the fantasy romance Stardust, being filmed in Castle Combe May 2006 Castle Combe was transformed into a fairytale village from the Victorian era.
Poirot in 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd' 1999. The diminutive moustached Belgian sleuth retires to sleepy King's Abbot to cultivate his garden, but even here murder soon rears its head.
Dr Dolittle 1967 - A musical about an eccentric English doctor who becomes fed-up with human beings and decides to talk to the animals instead

Corsham Court


Corsham Court
Wives and Daughters 1999 - Period drama about middle-English society on the eve of the Industrial Revolution
Remains of the Day 1993 - Set just before World War II, a regimented butler puts his stiff-upper-lip before anything else, especially love, romance and other similar stuff-and-nonsense. Corsham Court was one of four stately homes in the West Country used to film both exterior and interior shots, with Corsham Court used for the library and dining room interiors

Lacock Abbey

Lacock
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - October 2007 The house, home of the Talbot family, including the Medieval cloisters seen in the movie plus 'Hogwarts' classrooms.
Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone 2001 Eleven-year-old orphan Harry Potter discovers he is a wizard, like you do, and has been accepted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Sorcery, Quidditch and scary beasts ensue. 
Pride and Prejudice 1995 - Lavish adaptation of the Jane Austen novel about the Bennett sisters.
Randall & Hopkirk 1999 - Remake of cult sixties serial

Longleat House

Longleat House & Safari Park
BBC ‘Animal Park’
first hit our screens in 2000 and has been attracting millions of viewers ever since. Presented by Kate Humble and Ben Fogle, the series goes behind the scenes to investigate the daily goings on and dramas of this world famous safari park and stately home.

Wilton House

Wilton House
Sense and Sensibility was filmed here in 1995.
The Madness of King George 1994 King George III begins to behave in an odd manner thirty years into his rule over England, shouting obscenities at people, spouting garbled rubbish and attacking his wife's young Mistress of the Robes, Lady Pembroke. Starring Nigel Hawthorne and Helen Mirren.
Pride and Prejudice 1995 Lavish adaptation of the Jane Austen novel about the Bennett sisters
The Bounty starring Mel Gibson, Edward Fox, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier in 1983. In 1787, William Bligh, a real-life sea captain, steered The Bounty on a 27,000-mile voyage into danger, chaos and mutiny.

Old Wardour Castle

Old Wardour Castle
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 1991 starring Kevin Costner. Have-a-go-hero Robin Hood sets out to avenge the death of his dad and then go on to save the lower classes from the power-crazed and down-right nasty Sheriff of Nottingham. Old Wardour was used as Locksley Castle, the home of Marion.  A staircase in the castle remains is featured in the movie.

Bear Hotel Devizes

Devizes
Far From the Madding Crowd
Devizes 1967 Based on Thomas Hardy's classic, Far from the Madding Crowd is set in the 19th century, and centres on the somewhat stubborn country-bumpkin Bathsheba Everdene and the three very different suitors who fall for her charming ways.

 
 


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