"Borsetshire Borsetshire is a fictional county in the BBC Radio 4 series ""The Archers"". Its county town is the equally fictional Borchester. The county is supposedly set between Worcestershire and Warwickshire, but is also intended as a generic West Midlands rural county. Its name also echoes Anthony Trollope's fictional Barsetshire and the real Dorsetshire. Other places in the county include Ambridge, where ""The Archers"" is mainly set, Lower Loxley, a nearby village and Felpersham, a cathedral city which appears to be larger than Borchester. Ambridge is on the B3980 six miles south of Borchester and seventeen miles west of Felpersham."
"Barsetshire Barsetshire is a fictional English county created by Anthony Trollope in the series of novels known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. The county town and cathedral city is Barchester. Other towns in the novels include Silverbridge, Hogglestock and Greshamsbury. According to E. A. Freeman, Trollope conceded to him that Barset was in origin Somerset, although Barchester itself was primarily Winchester. Other West Country counties like Dorset also contributed, and Gatherum Castle for example was imported from elsewhere, but such important elements as Plumstead Episcopi were drawn directly from Somerset life, in this case Huish Episcopi. In sum, Barset was"
"1984. Also in Borchester is Borchester General Hospital. Borchester is the scene of frequent shopping trips and social encounters in the series. It has a mixture of trendy, ""southern England"" features such as wine bars and upmarket delis combined with some working-class neighbourhoods. The Grundy family lived for a while in a substandard council flat in Borchester after being evicted from Grange Farm in 2000. Borchester Borchester is a fictional town in the BBC Radio 4 radio series ""The Archers"". It is the county town of the fictional county of Borsetshire. According to series tradition it is located 6 miles"
"East Anglia, although some roads begin with ""4"" (appropriate to its apparent location in the West Midlands), ""3"", which would place it in the West Country, and even ""9"", which would place it in north-east Scotland. Fictional rivers in the county include the River Mercer, the River Perch and the River Am. There is also a fictional Felpersham Canal. There are railway stations at Felpersham and at Hollerton Junction (nearer to Ambridge). ""The Borchester Echo"" is the local newspaper published at Borchester. Radio Borsetshire is a local radio station. Borsetshire Blue is the name of a fictional cheese made by"
"programmes, such as ""Midsomer Murders"", ITV's ""Agatha Christie's Poirot"" episodes """"The Adventure of the Western Star"""" and """"Sad Cypress"""", """", ""Zombies"", ""Pride and Prejudice"" and ""The New World"". Dorney Court Dorney Court is a grade I listed early Tudor manor house, dating from around 1440, located in the village of Dorney, Buckinghamshire, England. It is owned and lived in by the Palmer family. Dorney Manor is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, as having been held before the Norman Conquest by Aldred, a man of Earl Morcar. In 1086, it was among the lands of Miles Crispin, and his"
"Inkberrow, whereas Hanbury's St Mary the Virgin is often used as a stand-in for Ambridge's parish church, St Stephen's. Other fictional villages include Penny Hassett, Loxley Barrett, Darrington, Hollerton, Edgeley, Waterley Cross and Lakey Green. The county town of Borsetshire is Borchester, and the nearest big city is the cathedral city of Felpersham. Felpersham also has a university. Anywhere further from Ambridge may be referred to humorously with comments such as 'that's on the other side of Felpersham!', but characters do occasionally venture further: several attended the Countryside Alliance march in London, there have been references to the gay scene"
"ITV for a 20th series, consisting of six episodes, with Annette Badland as new pathologist Dr Fleur Perkins. Midsomer is an English fictional county. The county town is Causton, a middle-sized town where Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby lives with his wife, and where the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is located. Much of the popularity of the series arises from the incongruity of sudden violence in a picturesque and peaceful rural setting. Individual episodes focus on institutions, rituals, and customs popularly seen as characteristic of rural English counties. Various clues in several episodes hint that Midsomer might actually cover the areas"
"""Sherlock"", ""Line of Duty"" and ""Little Boy Blue"". Broadchurch (series 3) This third and final series of the British crime drama ""Broadchurch"" began airing on the ITV broadcast network in the United Kingdom on 27 February 2017 and is set three years after the events of series two. The eight-episode series follows the rape of a local woman in the fictional, close-knit coastal town of Broadchurch in Dorset, England. The return features series stars David Tennant and Olivia Colman and many other actors from the first two series. While conceiving and writing the first series of ""Broadchurch"" in 2012, Chris"
"its cathedral in passing in his 1967 novel ""The Pyramid"", set in the small fictional market town of Stilbourne. Barsetshire Barsetshire is a fictional English county created by Anthony Trollope in the series of novels known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. The county town and cathedral city is Barchester. Other towns in the novels include Silverbridge, Hogglestock and Greshamsbury. According to E. A. Freeman, Trollope conceded to him that Barset was in origin Somerset, although Barchester itself was primarily Winchester. Other West Country counties like Dorset also contributed, and Gatherum Castle for example was imported from elsewhere, but such important"
"Dorset Dorset (; archaically: Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the non-metropolitan county, which is governed by Dorset County Council, and the unitary authority areas of Poole and Bournemouth. Covering an area of , Dorset borders Devon to the west, Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north-east, and Hampshire to the east. The county town is Dorchester which is in the south. After the reorganisation of local government in 1974 the county's border was extended eastward to incorporate the Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch. Around half of"
"Inspector Barnaby series for television in 1997. Although the series itself is primarily filmed in picturesque villages in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, Horowitz chose the name after looking at a map of Somerset, believing that it sounded quintessentially English. Although no filming of the show has ever taken place in Midsomer Norton or the surrounding parishes, some names of other nearby locations have been used by the producers in creating their fictional county of Midsomer, including ""Midsomer Wellow"" (Wellow), ""Midsomer Magna"" (Chew Magna), ""Midsomer Morton"" and the main settlement of ""Causton"" (Corston). Despite some occasional confusion, there is no other link"
"Mummerset Mummerset refers to a fictional rustic English county and, more commonly, to the English dialect supposedly spoken there. Mummerset is used by actors to represent a stereotypical English West Country accent while not specifically referencing any particular county. The name is a portmanteau of mummer (an archaic term for a folk actor) and Somerset, a largely rural county. Mummerset draws on a mixture of characteristics of real dialects from the West Country, such as rhoticism, forward-shifted diphthongs, lengthened vowels, and the voicing of word-initial consonants that are voiceless in other English dialects. Word-initial ""S"" is replaced with ""Z""; ""F"""
"of Berkshire and part of northern Hampshire. Many of the villages and small towns of the county have the word ""Midsomer"" in their name; this is inspired in part by the real county of Somerset, and specifically the town of Midsomer Norton, and became a naming convention within the show. When Mrs Barnaby proposed they move out of Causton and suggested various villages, her husband countered with recollections of particularly grisly murders that occurred in each community. Likewise, in ""The Fisher King"" (season 7, episode 3) DS Dan Scott asked if the body count was ""always this high around here,"
"""Heartbeat"", and the soap operas ""Emmerdale"" and ""Downton Abbey"". ""Last of the Summer Wine"" in particular is noted for holding the record of longest-running comedy series in the world, from 1973 until 2010. Other notable television series set in Yorkshire include ""All Creatures Great and Small"", ""The Beiderbecke Trilogy"", ""Rising Damp"", ""Fat Friends"" and ""The Royal"". Several noted films are set in Yorkshire, including ""Kes"", ""This Sporting Life"", ""Room at the Top"", ""Brassed Off"", ""Mischief Night"", ""Rita, Sue and Bob Too"" and ""Calendar Girls"". ""The Full Monty"", a comedy film set in Sheffield, won an Academy Award and was voted"
"of the Simpson family, who owned Hazel Bank. This is where Walpole found the inspiration for the ""Herries Chronicles"". Borrowdale Borrowdale is a valley and civil parish in the English Lake District in the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria, England. Borrowdale lies within the historic county boundaries of Cumberland and is sometimes referred to as ""Cumberland Borrowdale"" to distinguish it from another Borrowdale in the historic county of Westmorland. Simon Jenkins rates the view of Borrowdale from Castle Crag looking towards Derwentwater as the number one best view in England. The valley rises in the central Lake District and runs"
"'Kingsmarkham' in the television series ""The Ruth Rendell Mysteries"". Romsey locations appear throughout the series concerning Inspector Wexford played by George Baker. The location used for the fictional police station was the former Romsey Magistrates Court in Church Street. A fictional ""Underground car park in Romsey"" is referred to in an episode of the hit-TV series ""Absolutely Fabulous"". Romsey Romsey ( ) is a market town in the county of Hampshire, England. It is northwest of Southampton, southwest of Winchester and southeast of Salisbury. Neighbouring the village of North Baddesley, just over 18,000 people live in Romsey, which has an"
"for a series of 29 novels by Angela Thirkell, written from 1930 to 1961. Thirkell's stories blend social satire with romance. Her 1946 novel, ""Private Enterprise"", explored discontent with the bureaucracy of the Attlee government – something echoed by Orville Prescott in his poem-review beginning ""In Barchester all is not well"". Barsetshire is also used in some of the Pullein-Thompson sisters books, usually referring to rival teams or as a nearby county. Barchester and Barset were used as names for the fictional county in which St Trinians School was supposedly located in the original films. The county is also mentioned"
"aired on TF1 on 23 February 2015, garnering 6.5 million viewers. Lorraine Mullary, a local schoolgirl, goes missing and is later found murdered, throwing the sleepy Suffolk market town of Eastlee in which she lived into turmoil. Among them are the newly merged family of Rosie (Hermione Norris) and Ben (Martin Clunes) and their four children. Rosie begins to worry about son Jamie (Alexander Arnold), suspecting him of lying to her about his movements on the night of Lorraine's murder. When she finds a stained pair of trainers hidden in his bedroom, she worries the stains might be blood. As"
"close-knit local community, and how the characters react to the media attention and the mutual suspicion that arises. The series' location was partly inspired by the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, where Chibnall lived. Chibnall says that he initially did not have a location in mind for the series. But work-related issues made setting the show in Dorset appealing. From 2006 to 2011, Chibnall had spent most of his time travelling about the UK and Ireland, working on ""Torchwood"", """", and ""Camelot"". Setting the show in Dorset meant Chibnall would not have to spend time away from his home and family."
"consists of sheep but some other animals inhabit the area. Rhosgadfan Rhosgadfan is a Welsh village in the county of Gwynedd, formerly in the historic county of Caernarfonshire. It is notable as the birthplace of Kate Roberts, the greatest Welsh writer of the 20th century. The Welsh TV programme ""C'mon Midffild"" was filmed in the village hall, prior to its destruction. The hall was destroyed in a blaze believed to have been caused by arson . Nobody has been brought to justice. During March and April 2010 filming of SNOWDONIA 1890, a new television series to be shown on BBC1"
"Ambridge lies in the valley of the River Am below Lakey Hill from which the (real-life) Malvern Hills may be seen in fine weather. Felpersham is probably the largest settlement in the fictional county of Borsetshire. Felpersham is known to be the seat of a Church of England diocese, a university, and department stores. Unlike the county town, Borchester, Felpersham has city status. In having a cathedral but not being the county town it can perhaps be compared to Lichfield or St Albans. The BBC map of Borsetshire shows most road numbers beginning with ""1"", which would place it in"
"Broadchurch Broadchurch is a British serial crime drama television series broadcast on ITV for three series between 2013 and 2017. It was created by Chris Chibnall, who acted as an executive producer and wrote all 24 episodes, and produced by Kudos Film and Television, Shine America, and Imaginary Friends. The series is set in Broadchurch, a fictional English town in Dorset, and focuses on police detectives DI Alec Hardy (David Tennant) and DS Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman). The series features an ensemble cast that, in addition to Tennant and Colman, includes Jodie Whittaker, Andrew Buchan, Carolyn Pickles, Arthur Darvill, Charlotte"
"their home county of Dorset and its neighbouring counties in the south and west of England. Hardy's Wessex excluded Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, but the city of Oxford, which he called ""Christminster"", was visited as part of Wessex in ""Jude the Obscure"". He gave each of his Wessex counties a fictionalised name, such as with Berkshire, which is known in the novels as ""North Wessex"". The film ""Shakespeare in Love"" included a character called ""Lord Wessex"" – a title which did not exist in Elizabethan times. The ITV television series ""Broadchurch"" takes place in the Wessex area, primarily the county of"
"Rhosgadfan Rhosgadfan is a Welsh village in the county of Gwynedd, formerly in the historic county of Caernarfonshire. It is notable as the birthplace of Kate Roberts, the greatest Welsh writer of the 20th century. The Welsh TV programme ""C'mon Midffild"" was filmed in the village hall, prior to its destruction. The hall was destroyed in a blaze believed to have been caused by arson . Nobody has been brought to justice. During March and April 2010 filming of SNOWDONIA 1890, a new television series to be shown on BBC1 Wales in the autumn of 2010,took place at various locations"
"guests paying their last respects, and the body lay in a coffin in the front room. Suddenly they smelt burning, and on investigation they found that it came from the coffin. They opened the lid and found, that as he had sworn, Robert Johnson's arm was burning off! Ebchester Ebchester is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated to the north of Consett and to the south east of Whittonstall. The village sits at the intersection of the A694, which runs from Consett to Swalwell, and the B6309, which connects the A696 north of Belsay and runs into"
"Hold the Sunset Hold the Sunset is a British television sitcom first broadcast on BBC One on 18 February 2018. The plot revolves around two retired neighbours, Phil (Cleese) and Edith (Steadman), who live in Stoke Poges. They are both widowed and planning to start a new life together in Gozo. Those plans are scuppered when Edith's 49-year-old son Roger (Watkins), moves back into his mother's house after walking out on his wife and their two teenage children. The first series was released on 26 March 2018. The series has received predominantly negative reviews with 5.2/10 on IMDb, 40% on"
"The Coroner The Coroner is a BBC Birmingham daytime drama series of 20 episodes starring Claire Goose as Jane Kennedy, a coroner based in a fictional South Devon coastal town. Matt Bardock stars as Detective Sergeant Davey Higgins. The BBC announced on 2 March 2017 that there would be no further series. Jane Kennedy returns to Lighthaven as the local coroner. She works with Davey Higgins, a Detective Sergeant in the South Dart police; they were childhood sweethearts until he broke her heart. They investigate any sudden, violent or unexplained deaths in the South Hams district of South Devon. Also"
"a TV production company filmed a series of reality TV programmes describing the life of various British expatriates now living in the Dordogne, with an emphasis on Eymet. The series was first shown in autumn 2011, on Monday evenings on ITV1, as twelve 30-minute episodes under the title ""Little England"". Although it explored much of the region, some commentators found it less than exciting. Despite that, a second series was filmed in summer 2012, mainly in the area north of the Dordogne river and shown in autumn 2012 on UK's ITV. Eymet is twinned with: Eymet Eymet (; ) is"
"near Bridport in Dorset, which acts as the fictional town of Bridehaven. The second series featured much harder-hitting storylines than the first, and was criticised by local residents for portraying West Bay in a bad light. The complete series was released on Region 4 DVD on 3 March 2011. This is the only commercial release of the series available. The second episode of the first series, ""Marie Celeste"", was famously said to be 'missing' and was never broadcast on the BBC. It has, however, been shown during repeat screenings of the series on digital television, and is included in the"
"Town in July 2012. Bute Town Bute Town ( ""New Town"") is a village in the county borough of Caerphilly, near Rhymney, in Wales. It was built in the 1830s as a ""model village"" to house local workers, and named after the Marquis of Bute. Built with 48 houses arranged in three rows, the village housed between 195 and 430 people in the 19th century. Bute Town has been a Conservation Area since October 1972, and all of the buildings are on the statutory list of buildings of architectural or historic interest. The Doctor Who episode The Crimson Horror filmed"
"Grantchester (TV series) Grantchester is a British ITV detective drama, set in the 1950s Cambridgeshire village of the same name. The show features Anglican vicar Sidney Chambers (James Norton), who develops a sideline in sleuthing with the help of Detective Inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green). The series is based on ""The Grantchester Mysteries"", collections of short stories written by James Runcie. The first series was based on the six stories from the first book, ""Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death"", and was broadcast in 2014. A second series aired in March and April 2016, and a third series began"
"Lake and Palmer, grew up in Poole. P.J. Harvey grew up near Bridport at Corscombe and still lives in West Bay. The region has also produced musicians in a style often described as ""urban"", with the grime artist Isaiah Dreads having grown up in Dorchester. Culture of Dorset Dorset (or archaically, Dorsetshire), is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the area covered by the non-metropolitan county, which is governed by Dorset County Council, together with the unitary authorities of Poole and Bournemouth. Dorset is an average sized county with an area"
"church service that he attempts to conduct. Marion runs away with him to explore New Age philosophies at the beginning of Series 3, although this does not last long. Most exterior scenes at the retirement home were filmed at and around the Oaken Holt Rest Home in Farmoor, Oxfordshire, England. Although the script of the series makes great play of its Bournemouth setting, the location filming for the first three series was largely carried out in and around Brighton and Worthing. The first genuine appearance of Bournemouth town centre and the nearby suburb of Boscombe is in the 1992 Christmas"