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Great thread!
Devil's Pulpit near Drymen - ridden along the edge of it for years until some wazzocks used it for the likes of Outlander and the great unwashed descended on it en masse.
Outlaw King - regularly ride past the castle and the field used for the battlefield as seen in the film. Also featured in Wild Country, a low budget Scottish werewolf flick.
The First Zulu War (Glasgow) as featured in The Meaning of Life was filmed beside the water board pipe track between Dumgoyne and Blanefield.
Shallow Grave - the scene where they dump the Vauxhall Manta into the quarry was filmed on Peaches Moor in Mugdock.
Woods beside the site of the old Canniesburn Hospital - location of Wilbur wants to kill himself scenes with Mads Mickelson.
Pretty much all the locations featured in That Sinking Feeling - the River Clyde where Police Scotland are now based, Maryhill where the scene in the derelict car was filmed, Park Circus and Kelvingrove Park - both featuring in early scenes in the film, Queens Park (rode through it yesterday on an urban ride in the rain and wind!) etc.
Comfort and Joy - rode past the site of where Bill Paterson talks into his old tape recorder by the old warehouses on the south side of the Clyde yesterday.
Jings. Glasgow really has been in a lot of films!
I have an article to do that will be based upon linking up the locations used in Local Hero. It will be a cross Scotland tour with a difference. Should be fun!
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Darling buds of May. Often ride past the Larkins farm (Buss Farm) and through the village of Pluckley where many scenes were filmed. On a longer ride to the North Kent coast I sometimes ride past a farm where the purple lorry ended up.
I once did a MTB orienteering event out of Market Harborough and was told that one of the tracks we rode on went under the railway line where they filmed the "Great Train Robbery". Seems they were correct
https://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2011/03/robbery-1967-film-shot-near-market.html
Locally the film "American Warewolf in London" was filmed up the top of our valley. A more recent film "Resistance" was film (and set) in many local locations which we regularly ride through. 3 of my sheep dogs even had a role in the film and were credited at the end. The scene I was in as an extra ended up on the cutting room floor 🙁
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance_(2011_film)
Great thread this, I'm going to look up some more around here.
Oh, the Aeronauts was partly filmed in Chatham Dockyard (as someone said, used a lot), the scene in the huge "hanger" where they are assembling the balloon.
A church on Hoo peninsula was also used in an old b/w Dickensian adaptation too. I can't be asked to Google it.lol
A church on Hoo peninsula was also used in an old b/w Dickensian adaptation too. I can’t be asked to Google it.lol
Cooling Church for sure has been used, mainly cos it's one of the many actual places that appear in the books. I've been riding my bike across the strawberry fields behind it pretty much almost on to set (although that instance was a pretty minor adaptation).
Other churches very likely to have been used. Maybe even Cliffe given it's actually got space outside for all the OB vans and stuff.
One of the more recent beeb Dickens adaptations used the marshes near Faversham as a stand in for Cliffe/Higham marshes which would have been the ones most likely to be ones that Dickens would have referenced. But I've not been cycling there so won't tick that off.
I should add that I used to live in Fergus Drive that was used for exterior shots for Tom Conti's flat in the criminally underrated "Heavenly Pursuits". Great wee film.
Used to ride along bits of the Nene Valley Railway on my commute. For a while in the 80s and 90s it was the go to steam railway location. A couple of Bonds have filmed there, along with loads of the usual suspect TV shows (Casualty, The Bill, London's Burning, etc.).
I think the most recent one to look out for in the future near here is an episode of Pennyworth,Batman series (Gotham )spin off.I think they were filming with Paloma Faith inside the abandoned Chattenden Barracks earlier in the year. I regualalry ride through the woods areas but it's still kept secure in the bunkers/building areas ,where I presume they were.
Cooling Church
I'm sure many have ridden up or down Haworth main street or elsewhere around the village of Railway Children, Rita Sue and Bob and many other film /TV series fame.
The Eye of Sauron is Castle Hill, Huddersfield
el chorro gorge from von ryans express
we used to go walking there in El Chorro, twenty years or so ago before we were into biking. Great little village, cut through the railway tunnel to get into the gorge
As per a few others on here, Hankley Common is on a few on my routes so rode past Skyfall house still smoking on a night ride out there plus past a few others Black Widow, 1917.
Not film but did a 24hr in Coin in Spain where the last part of the lap was through the BBC failed soap Eldorado set, hand over was outside the staff canteen and accomodation was onsite for cast and crew. Very surreal event
the abandoned Chattenden Barracks
thought that bit had been totally demolished, but it's all changed so much over the years I don't know what's what any more.
Used to ride thru the woods on the Grifter to the bit of the Barracks that was Lodge Hill camp, and throw stones over the secure fencing "trying to set off the mines" in the bomb disposal training area. Hey we were only 11 years old, doing what any 11 year old would do if they saw a fence that said Danger Explosions on it. I think we were more scared of getting run over on the road by heavy plant by the Royal Digger Training Corps on the other side of the Barracks.
Through the Shrublands Grounds where Sean Connery is nearly broiled whilst on retreat in Thunderball. Orford, Framlingham and Rendlesham for the Detectorists.
I think Sizewell also showed up in one of the other Bond films but I'm unable to remember which one.
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Being Surrey based, as many of the above, there's loads of stuff around Surrey/Hampshire areas with all the woodlands, commons and MOD lands.
Just a few I remember / know-of in places I ride...
Borne Woods - Gladiator, Robin Hood, Transformers something-or-other and loads of others. Busy filming spot.
Minley - Various things including the Pokemon film at the bridge.
Deepcut/Frith - a couple of Netflix things, Cursed and The Witcher. Kingsman was filming at the church in Deepcut too.
Hawley - Jurassic World 2, Avengers - Age of Ultron (also at Borne Wood)
Hankley - Bond stuff like Skyfall, and many others
Long Valley - Die Another Day
Caesars Camp - Doctor Who back in the 70s!
Surrey Hills - Beuaty and the Beast @ Jelly's Hollow in Winterfold, The Mummy (Tom Cruise one) around Winterfold. Jurrassic World 3 recently in Winterfold. A few things in Redlands (Thor? amongst others).
Chobham/Longcross - Longcross is a studio so plenty of things, but on edge of Chobham Common they did have the Millennium Falcon tucked away. Also long ago, Superman II had stuff shot on Chobham Common!
Swinley - Hairy Potter of course.
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They were there twice with various green screens. Harry's original house was around the corner in Martins Heron also and they've done stuff at Virginia Water.
Then there's non-riding places. Guildford Cathedral - The Omen (and found out recently a posh stately home near me was used in it too).
Dunsfold has had a number of things. Bond - Casino Royale, and of course is Top Gear test track.
Shere - The Holiday & Professor Branestawm are ones I particularly know of, but been bucket loads more.
@tjmoore I think you may have answered a question I had not posed.A few years back I climbed out of the Northern Monkey trail (Jelleys Hollow)to see a load of filmy type vehicles there .
<Buttershaw estate, Bradford. From Rita Sue & Bob too.>
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The church at Cooling, yes. I used to go metal detecting near there too.
I think it was featured in Great Expectations, 1946 with John Mills? I might have that totally wrong though.
Wayne Manor, I used to ride around Wollaton Park a lot as a teenager, also skated down the paths and sledged down the grassy slopes.
More recently my commute takes in the set on Dale Street, Manchester that was used for Captain America and countless other productions.
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@tjmoore I think you may have answered a question I had not posed.A few years back I climbed out of the Northern Monkey trail (Jelleys Hollow)to see a load of filmy type vehicles there .
Yeah, they had filming trucks and they'd put down some surface stuff to drive things on. Then sprayed loads of fake snow but I missed that bit. Think I was elsewhere for couple of weeks. They'd cleared up by the time I went back.
Final scene from Vanishing Point... not much here now....
Three Men and a Baby, I've just remembered.
They used a local country park to me called Burton Dassett Hills where they stopped at a phone box in a Moggie.
There isn't a phone box there really.
Crazy world.
Maybe a bit tenuous, but passed this on our way to a trailhead while biking around Albuquerque..
