In which fictional Cornish village is the television series 'Doc Martin' set?
"Doc Martin Doc Martin is a British television medical comedy drama series starring Martin Clunes in the title role. It was created by Dominic Minghella after the character of Dr Martin Bamford in the 2000 comedy film ""Saving Grace"". The programme is set in the fictional seaside village of Portwenn and filmed on location in the village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, England, with most interior scenes shot in a converted local barn. Seven series aired between 2004 and 2015, and a television film aired on Christmas Day 2006. The eighth and most recent series began airing on ITV on 20"
"village (A354). The church of All Saints at Martin dates from Norman times although much of its fabric is fourteenth century. Of note within the church are An Elizabethan Chalice, A paten dated 1743 and an 18th Cent, baluster font. The village green still has the village pump, consisting of an iron frame with a cranked spindle through it. The base of the 15th century village cross can also be seen here. The chalk grasslands of Martin Down are a national nature reserve. In 1983 Martin was used as one of the two real life locations for the Doctor Who"
"undertaken. The resulting heritage reconstruction has been described as the best representation of a medieval village currently available in Britain. In addition to being open to the general public, the village accepts school tours and archeological groups, together with staging of special events and re-enactments throughout the year. Cosmeston has been used as a film location for many productions, including a 2014 episode of the hit BBC TV drama series ""Doctor Who"", ""Merlin"" and ""Galavant"". Cosmeston Medieval Village Cosmeston Medieval Village is a ""living history"" medieval village near Lavernock in the Vale of Glamorgan not far from Penarth and Cardiff"
"and Trebarwith Strand, and ""Johnny English"", part of which was filmed at St Michael's Mount. Cornwall's scenery came to particular prominence in the mid-1970s with the serialisation of ""Poldark"", based on the novels of Winston Graham. More recent success has come with ""Doc Martin"", ""Wycliffe"", ""Wild West"", ""Penmarric"" (1979 BBC TV series), ""Frenchman's Creek"" (1998 TV adaptation) and ""The Camomile Lawn"" (1992). In June 2007 it was announced that ex-""Neighbours"" star Jason Donovan is to appear with former ""EastEnders"" actress Martine McCutcheon in ITV1's upcoming soap opera about surfing in Cornwall. The former soap stars play ex-lovers in ""Echo Beach"","
"Letwin. Winterborne St Martin Winterborne St Martin, commonly known as Martinstown, is a village and civil parish in southwest Dorset, England, situated south-west of Dorchester, beside Maiden Castle. In 2013 the estimated population of the civil parish was 780. In the centre of the village is the parish church of St Martin, which dates from the 12th century and has a Norman font. Other amenities in the village include a public house, a village hall and a farm shop. Bronze Age barrows including Clandon Barrow surround the village, and Maiden Castle hillfort is nearby. The stream running through the village"
"Cornish medieval bridges. Lewannick Lewannick (; ) is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately five miles (8 km) southwest of Launceston. The civil parish had a population of 973 at the 2011 census. The parish is rural in character and is within the Deanery and Hundred of East. It is bounded on the north by Trewen and South Petherwin, on the east by Lezant, on the south by North Hill and on the west by Altarnun. The parish church is dedicated to St Martin and is located at . Evidence of"
"Winterborne St Martin Winterborne St Martin, commonly known as Martinstown, is a village and civil parish in southwest Dorset, England, situated south-west of Dorchester, beside Maiden Castle. In 2013 the estimated population of the civil parish was 780. In the centre of the village is the parish church of St Martin, which dates from the 12th century and has a Norman font. Other amenities in the village include a public house, a village hall and a farm shop. Bronze Age barrows including Clandon Barrow surround the village, and Maiden Castle hillfort is nearby. The stream running through the village is"
"that runs tours between Easter and October and explores the old Antimony mines and the local coastline. In 2011 Doyden Castle was used as ""Pentire Castle"" in the ITV series ""Doc Martin"" . Port Quin Port Quin (, meaning ""white cove"") is a small cove and hamlet between Port Isaac and Polzeath in north Cornwall, England, UK. Facing the Atlantic Ocean, the narrow rocky inlet of Port Quin provides a naturally sheltered harbour for sea-going vessels. The cove gives its name to Port Quin Bay, a stretch of coast that extends from Kellan Head to The Rumps. Port Quin lies"
"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"
"Cornwall Airport and Exeter International Airport. John Bassett Martin, (1847-1944) Pre-eminent Victorian Journalist and Freemason. Born in Petrockstowe on 2 October 1847. Petrockstowe Petrockstowe (or Petrockstow) is a small village and civil parish in the district of Torridge in Northern Devon, England. Its population in 2001 was 379, hardly different from the figure of 385 recorded in 1901. The southern boundary of the parish lies on the River Torridge, and it is surrounded, clockwise from the north, by the parishes of Peters Marland, Merton, Huish, Meeth, Highampton and Buckland Filleigh. The village lies about four miles NNW of the town"
"Lewannick Lewannick (; ) is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately five miles (8 km) southwest of Launceston. The civil parish had a population of 973 at the 2011 census. The parish is rural in character and is within the Deanery and Hundred of East. It is bounded on the north by Trewen and South Petherwin, on the east by Lezant, on the south by North Hill and on the west by Altarnun. The parish church is dedicated to St Martin and is located at . Evidence of early medieval habitation"
"have been used for a number of films and television series, including: Port Isaac Port Isaac () is a small and picturesque fishing village on the Atlantic coast of north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The nearest towns are Wadebridge and Camelford, both ten miles away. Port Gaverne, commonly mistaken to be part of Port Isaac, is a nearby hamlet that has its own history. The meaning of the Cornish name is ""corn port"", indicating a trade in corn from the arable inland district. Since the 1980s, the village has served as backdrop to various television productions, including the ITV series"
"estimated to cost £9 million. The Baal pit was used in the 1971 Doctor Who episode ""Colony in Space"" featuring Jon Pertwee. The quarry was used to depict the surface of planet Uxarieus. Treverbyn Treverbyn is a civil parish and village in mid-Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The church of St Peter is modern as the medieval chapel was closed at the time of the Reformation. The parish was formed from part of St Austell parish in 1847. Treverbyn parish includes the villages of Treverbyn, Stenalees, Penwithick, Bugle (the largest of these), Rescorla, Kerrow Moor, Carthew, Ruddlemoor, Bowling Green, Resugga Green,"
"a number of notable burials: Fornham St Martin Fornham St Martin is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the northern outskirts of Bury St Edmunds off east and west from the A134, in 2005 its population was 1300. Its parish council is shared with neighbouring Fornham St Genevieve, and is known as Fornham St Martin cum St Genevieve Parish Council. Near the current Lark Valley Drive, a smock windmill used to stand. It collapsed in 1927. The village has one public house, the Woolpack, but no shops. Its school"
"15th century. Its design shows the Assumption of the Virgin, surrounded by angels and saints. The village gave its name to one of the historic hundreds of Monmouthshire. The Bell at Skenfrith, originally a 17th-century coaching inn, was voted Michelin 2007 Pub of the Year, for the whole of Great Britain. Skenfrith was used as the location for the fictional village of ""Upper Leadworth"" in the Doctor Who episodes ""Amy's Choice"", broadcast on 22 May 2010 and the related Doctor Who Confidential episode ""Arthurian Legend"". In the episode quoted Skenfrith was labelled as the village which time forgot. There is"
"Fornham St Martin Fornham St Martin is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the northern outskirts of Bury St Edmunds off east and west from the A134, in 2005 its population was 1300. Its parish council is shared with neighbouring Fornham St Genevieve, and is known as Fornham St Martin cum St Genevieve Parish Council. Near the current Lark Valley Drive, a smock windmill used to stand. It collapsed in 1927. The village has one public house, the Woolpack, but no shops. Its school closed in the early 1950s."
"Charlton Down Charlton Down is a new village in Dorset, England, situated in the West Dorset administrative district approximately north of the county town Dorchester. It lies within the civil parish of Charminster. The village of Charlton Down developed from the site of Herrison Hospital, an old Victorian mental hospital. In 1920 it became the Dorset County Mental Hospital, and in 1940 was renamed Herrison Hospital. This was self-contained with facilities including a church, Gothic chapel, sports facilities, allotments, a radio station, and social centre. The Herrison Hospital bus was an unusual but frequent daily service, unusual in that it"
"on Iseult's journey. W. J. Burley's ""Wycliffe and the Last Rites"" is set in a Cornish village called Moresk. St Clement, Cornwall St Clement () is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated southeast of Truro in the valley of the Tresillian River. Other notable villages within the parish are the much larger Tresillian 1.4 miles (2.3km) to the north east of St Clement village itself and another village at Malpas to the south of the parish. The urban part of the parish of St Clement was incorporated into Truro in 1895. The remainder"
"the village. In 1989, Tom Baker, who starred as the Doctor in the series, returned to the village to be interviewed by Nicholas Briggs about his time on ""Doctor Who"" for the Reeltime Pictures ""Myth Makers"" series. In 2012, Briggs returned to the village to interview residents for ""The Village That Came to Life"", a making-of documentary featured on the DVD release of the series. In 2015, two television channels featured East Hagbourne in reports about the Mind the Green Gap Campaign. East Hagbourne East Hagbourne is a village and civil parish about south of Didcot and south of Oxford."
"and the surrounding area, which poses as the fictional town of ""Causton in the county of Midsomer"". In the British TV series, ""[[Sorry! (TV series)|Sorry!]]"" starring [[Ronnie Corbett]], the exterior town scenes were filmed in Wallingford. Corbett's character, Timothy, drank in the Dolphin [[Public House]]. The Christmas special ""[[Professor Branestawm]]"" starring [[Harry Hill]] as well as [[David Mitchell (comedian)|David Mitchell]], [[Simon Day]], [[Ben Miller]] and [[Miranda Richardson]] was filmed mainly in Wallingford. it aired in 2014. In the town: Wallingford used to return two [[Member of Parliament|Members of Parliament]] (cut to one in 1832 and none in 1885). Its prominent"
"television series ""Maid Marian and Her Merry Men"", the Sheriff of Nottingham (played by Tony Robinson) says that ""The country is suffering under the worst cold spell since King Arthur sat on The Magic Icicle of Mevagissey"". Mevagissey is a popular location for filmmakers and advertisers. It featured in ""The Next of Kin"", 1942; ""Johnny Frenchman"", 1945; ""Never Let Me Go"", 1953; ""Dracula"", 1979 and ""Bad Education"", 2015. Mevagissey Mevagissey (; ) is a village, fishing port and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately five miles (8 km) south of St Austell. The parish"
"constituted a liberty by itself. Owermoigne village is described as Nether Moynton in the fictional Wessex of Thomas Hardy's novels and his short story ""The Distracted Preacher"" in Wessex Tales takes place in the village. Owermoigne Owermoigne () is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated south-east of Dorchester. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 467. The parish is within an electoral ward with the same name, which stretches from the east side of the small coastal village of Ringstead north towards Owermoigne and then up to, but not"
"his wife and daughter. John Scott Martin John Scott Martin (1 April 1926 – 6 January 2009) was an English actor born in Toxteth, Liverpool, Lancashire. He made many film, stage and television appearances, but one of his most famous, though unseen, roles was as a Dalek operator in the long-running BBC science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". Martin operated Daleks from 1965's ""The Chase"" through 1988's ""Remembrance of the Daleks"" making him the longest-running Dalek operator. He worked with eight different actors in the title role of The Doctor from William Hartnell to Sylvester McCoy, and also Richard Hurndall,"
"in one of Thomas Hardy's novels. Cosmore Cosmore is a small village in Dorset, situated just off the main A352 Sherborne-Dorchester road. It sits at the foot of Dogbury Hill, one of Dorset's highest points. It is bounded by two minor rivers, to the East by the Caundle Brook, and to the west, the River Lydden. There are 18 separate dwellings within the village, and the population is 45-50. The village is located 9 miles North of the county town, Dorchester, and 11 miles south of the historic Abbey town of Sherborne. Historic buildings include the 18th century Revel's Inn"
"behind his back with his three best friends. After confronting her with the news, he decides to leave London and heads for Cornwall, which he remembers fondly from his youth. Shortly after he arrives, he gets involved in the mystery of the ""Jellymaker"" and, following the departure of the village's resident GP, decides to stay in Port Isaac and fill the gap himself. Clunes' company tried selling a series on the same theme to ITV who liked it, but felt the character of Martin Bamford needed a stronger defining characteristic than just being a ""townie"" who is a little out"
"a three part Australian documentary television series produced by Prospero Productions for the Seven Network that ""follows acclaimed actor and comedian Martin Clunes as he explores the most diverse, intriguing, remote and spectacular islands that surround Australia."" Clunes' first marriage was to actress Lucy Aston in 1990. They divorced in 1997 and Clunes married future ""Doc Martin"" producer Philippa Braithwaite late that year. In 1998, Braithwaite gave birth to their daughter Emily. Clunes lives with his family in Beaminster, Dorset where they run a farm with heavy horses. He became president of the British Horse Society on 1 June 2011."
"same family. The castle is not accessible to the public. In 2005, the semi-derelict castle stable block and manor house were both used as the main shooting location for ""Tooth and Claw"", the second episode of the second series of the resurrected BBC One television series ""Doctor Who"". The castle was set as a Victorian-era Scottish castle, home to some monks who were playing host to Queen Victoria. As of May 2018 the castle is for sale with a guide price of £1,000,000. Penllyn Castle Penllyn Castle is a Norman architecture castle, located in Cowbridge, south-east of Bridgend, South Wales."
"on Mary Portas revamping the village's convenience store. Featured in 'The Lady of Hay' by Barbara Erskine. Corfe Castle (village) Corfe Castle is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It is the site of a ruined castle of the same name. The village and castle stand over a gap in the Purbeck Hills on the route between Wareham and Swanage. The village lies in the gap below the castle, and is some eight kilometres (five miles) south-east of Wareham, and the same distance west of Swanage. Both the current main A351 road from Lytchett Minster"
"of Constantine are situated various historic estates including: Bonallack, Bosahan, Bosanarth, Bosawsack, Bosvathick, Boswarch, Boswidjack, Bridge, Brill (a hamlet to the west of the village of Constantine), Brillwater, Calamansac, Carvedras, Goongillings, Groyne Point, High Cross, Job's Water, Lestraynes, Maen Pern, Merthen, Nancenoy,Penbothidno, Penwarn, Polpenwith, Polwheveral, Ponjeravah, Port Navas, Retallack, Scott's Quay, Seworgan, Trebarvah, Trecombe, Tregantallan, Treglidwith, Treleggan, Trenarth, Trengrove, Tresahor, Tresidder, Trevassack, Trevease, Treviades, Trewardreva, Trewince, Treworvack, Treworvall, Tucoyse. Constantine, Cornwall Constantine () (, meaning ""church enclosure of St Constantine"") is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately five miles (8 km) west-southwest"
"1983 Shapwick was used as one of the two real life locations for the Doctor Who story The Awakening. The other village used was Martin in Hampshire. One of its most famous residents was Charles Bennett who won the 1500 metres at the 1900 Summer Olympics. A local legend tells how in the year 1706 a travelling fishmonger was one day passing through the village of Shapwick, when, unbeknownst to the fishmonger, a crab fell off his cart. The fishmonger continued on his journey, but the local villagers, who had never seen a crab before, gathered around the creature poking"
"James had in mind for his short ghost story Martin's Close published in More Ghost Stories in 1911. The New Inn featured in this story is also a real place and a grade II listed old coaching inn originally built in the 16th Century Sampford Courtenay Sampford Courtenay is a village and civil parish in West Devon in England, most famous for being the place where the Western Rebellion, otherwise known as the Prayerbook rebellion, first started, and where the rebels made their final stand. It has a population of 509. The Church of St Andrew is mainly built of"
"Martin's School is a primary and secondary school located in St Martin's. Francis Williams, Editor of the ""Daily Herald"" and Governor of the BBC, (later life peer Baron Francis-Williams) born at St Martin's. St Martin's, Shropshire The border village and civil parish of St Martin's () is in Shropshire, England, just north of Oswestry and east of Chirk. The ancient Parish of St Martin's was made up of the townships of Ifton, Wiggington, Bronygarth and Weston Rhyn. Each of these townships bordered Wales, with the River Ceiriog and the River Dee forming the border. However, in 1870, the townships of"
"'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"