"and series. The series was filmed at various locations around North Yorkshire. These include shots on the moors and frequent mentions of local roads (like the A171.) Exterior scenes of Aidensfield are filmed in the village of Goathland in North Yorkshire, with the village's railway station also appearing occasionally. Other prominent filming locations include Whitby, Otley and Scarborough. The ""Heartbeat: Changing Places"" special includes location filming in Canada and two series 18 episodes were filmed on location in Queensland, Australia. In 2005–07 Hornby Railways based a Skaledale Model series on Goathland railway station, part of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway,"
"Charsfield Charsfield is a small Suffolk village of 355 residents,(2011) from Wickham Market, from Woodbridge and from Ipswich and is located near the villages of Debach and Dallinghoo. A Civil Parish in East Anglia, Charsfield was famously used as one of the key locations in the 1974 film Akenfield, based loosely upon the book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by the historian Ronald Blythe (1969). Charsfield hosted the first Greenbelt festival - an annual festival of arts, faith and justice - on a pig farm just outside the village over the August 1974 bank holiday weekend. Famous Charsfield residents"
"by driving along the track which is the site of the older railway route, 1835 to 1860. Much of the surrounding land is owned by the Duchy of Lancaster. The Duchy's tenants have a common right extending for hundreds of years to graze their black faced sheep on the village green and surrounding moorland. The village was the setting of the fictional village of Aidensfield in the ""Heartbeat"" television series set in the 1960s. Many landmarks from the series are recognisable, including the stores, garage/funeral directors, the public house and the railway station. The pub is called the Goathland Hotel,"
"in, subsequent series focused more on criminal and medical storylines, with a greater role for the other policemen at the Ashfordly station, who had appeared in the first series but only as quite minor supporting characters. Various new characters were introduced along the way, such as Gina Ward (played by Tricia Penrose), who would eventually become landlady of the Aidensfield Arms village pub, (The Goathland Hotel.) Bernie Scripps (Peter Benson), undertaker and proprietor of the Aidensfield Garage, and David Stockwell (David Lonsdale), hired hand and taxi/lorry driver. During the filming of series 4 Niamh Cusack, who played Nick's wife, became"
"include Charles Webb, a respected Victorian architect and Peggy Cole, a frequent speaker on BBC's Radio Suffolk. Charsfield Charsfield is a small Suffolk village of 355 residents,(2011) from Wickham Market, from Woodbridge and from Ipswich and is located near the villages of Debach and Dallinghoo. A Civil Parish in East Anglia, Charsfield was famously used as one of the key locations in the 1974 film Akenfield, based loosely upon the book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by the historian Ronald Blythe (1969). Charsfield hosted the first Greenbelt festival - an annual festival of arts, faith and justice - on"
"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"
"but in the series is the Aidensfield Arms. After filming for some years a replica was built in the studio. Goathland railway station is on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. The railway is run by a charitable trust with some paid staff but is mostly operated by volunteers, running nearly all the year including Christmas. It carries more than 250,000 passengers a year and is the second-longest preserved line in Britain. It links Grosmont in the north with Pickering in the south, along the route of the Whitby - Pickering line built by George Stephenson in 1835 and upgraded in"
"18 series, and Gina Ward (Tricia Penrose), who was introduced early in the second series, was also present until the end. Other characters such as Vernon Scripps appears regularly and is mentioned when he is not in the episode. Most episodes from later series follow a fairly similar structure. The main storylines are generally to do with criminal activity and related medical matters, and personal traumas. Typically one or more crimes take place, which are investigated by the Aidensfield police and the other policemen from the Ashfordly Police Station. The villains are almost always apprehended by the end of the"
"Neasden in 1963 and celebrations in 2004 to mark the centenary of the Uxbridge branch. Metro-land (notably west Hertfordshire) formed the backdrop for the 1960s ABC TV series ""The Avengers"", whose popular imagery was deployed with a twist of fantasy. The archetypal Metro-land subjects (such as the railway station and the quiet suburb) became the settings for fiendish plots and treachery in this series and others, such as ""The Saint"", ""The Baron"" and ""Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)"", all of which made regular use of locations within easy reach of film studios at Borehamwood and Pinewood. Some abhorred Metro-land for its"
"To allow for the change of location to be incorporated into the show's continuity, a programme about moving house was shot to link the two locations. Series 3 was commissioned two years later and was also shot at the cottage in Harefield. In every episode Auntie Mabel ventures outside and this involved shooting in many locations in the United Kingdom, such as a pencil factory in Keswick, the manufacture of Wellington boots in Dumfries, a pottery in Stoke, growing bulbs in Spalding, Lincolnshire and making brushes in Portsmouth. Sometimes Auntie Mabel's adventures stayed closer to home. Some of the episodes"
"ITV cancelled the series in 2009, citing high production costs (which were estimated at up to £750,000 per episode) and the large number of new series being broadcast on the network. The series is set in the fictional town of Bradfield, which is assumed to lie within West Yorkshire. It follows the Major Incident Team (MIT) of Bradfield Metropolitan Police's CID and the assistance provided to the detectives by clinical psychologist and serial offender profiler Dr. Tony Hill. All of the main episodes revolve around a serial killer whom Hill helps to track down by means of a profile, based"
"a familiar face on children's television for many years, Maguire was previously most famous for playing Tegs in BBC's school drama, ""Grange Hill"". At his audition, Maguire had to show off his football skills and talk in a convincing Irish accent. Aidan is introduced as a talented young Irish football apprentice at Walford Town Football Club. He is soon taken in by the Fowler family as a lodger, leading to his association with Mandy Salter (Nicola Stapleton), an established character who had been an ""EastEnders"" regular since the Spring of 1992. Aiden and Mandy's romance is of one of 1993's"
"and starring Simon Bird and Joe Thomas. The village is on the route of the Dunwich Dynamo annual cycle ride. Finchingfield Finchingfield is a village in the Braintree district in north-west Essex, England, a primarily rural area. It is approximately from Thaxted, further from the larger towns of Saffron Walden and Braintree. Nearby villages include Great Bardfield, Great Sampford, and Wethersfield. There has been a settlement in Finchingfield since historical records of the area began. There also is archaeological evidence for a Roman villa 400 metres south-south-west of the village church. Finchingfield was recorded in the ""Domesday Book"" as ""Phincingfelda,"""
"Playing the Field Playing the Field is a BBC television drama series following the lives of the Castlefield Blues, a fictitious female football team from South Yorkshire. Inspired by Pete Davies’s novel ""I Lost My Heart To The Belles"" — which was written about a real-life club, the Doncaster Belles — ""Playing the Field"" ran for five series, from 1998–2002, with scripts by, amongst others, Kay Mellor, Sally Wainwright and Gaynor Faye. Despite being set in South Yorkshire, much of the location filming took place in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, although the fifth (and final) series was filmed around Leeds; whilst the"
"earlier episodes, the M4 and A417 were often seen, and the map of Swindon was seen in the control room, although a map of Reading was used occasionally. Paperwork given to Frost and other characters refers to Denton station as being part of the Thames Valley Police. The programme was produced by ITV in Leeds, and most of the outdoor locations were shot in West Yorkshire. Several scenes were filmed in and around the city and district of Wakefield and neighbouring small towns of Pontefract and Castleford, West Yorkshire. The role of Frost was notable in changing the public perception"
"series ""Cranford"", which is set in Cheshire. The railway featured in the two-part Christmas special that was first broadcast in December 2009. Judi Dench, who played the part of Matilda 'Matty' Jenkyns, invited several of the main characters to ride on the train in an attempt to alter their opinions about the benefits of the railway being extended into the town of Cranford. The station at Caverswall offers visitor facilities such as a Buffet serving hot and cold food and drinks and a Real Ale bar ""The One Legged Shunter"". Also a museum building displaying a variety of artifacts relating"
"small village just north of Ipswich, the county town of Suffolk) and probably partly on Charsfield, a village just outside the small town of Wickham Market, Suffolk, about ten miles north-east of Akenham. The film of Akenfield was made on location in the villages just west of Wickham Market, notably Hoo, Debach, Charsfield, Monewden, Dallinghoo, Letheringham and Pettistree. The actors in the film were non-professional, drawn from the local population, and therefore speak with authentic accents and play their parts in a manner unaffected by the habit of stage or screen performance. After making the film, most returned to usual"
"Berinsfield Berinsfield is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, about southeast of Oxford. Palaeolithic and Roman artefacts were found during 20th century excavations to build the village. The Roman road between Dorchester-on-Thames and Alchester runs through the centre of Berinsfield. An Anglo-Saxon cemetery was also found at Berinsfield. The village occupies the site of RAF Mount Farm, a satellite of RAF Benson, initially used to train bomber pilots. It was later taken over by the United States Army Air Forces, who used it as a reconnaissance base. From here stars including Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour and Glenn Miller"
"Ecclesbourne Valley Railway in Wirksworth, Derbyshire was used to film the second series, entitled 'Five Days II', and starring Suranne Jones, Anne Reid, Bernard Hill, Matthew McNulty, Ashley Walters, David Morrissey, Chris Fountain, Nina Sosanya and Derek Riddell amongst others. The station at Wirksworth was turned into the fictional station of Castlebury in Yorkshire. Many locations within West Yorkshire and some in North Yorkshire were used for filming: Many scenes were filmed at Wakefield Kirkgate railway station with the main road approaching the station being closed for a period of time whilst a chase was filmed. A now demolished signal"
"manager Malcolm McLaren and Mike Reid competing for a vacant Baronial title in a small Scottish town called Gardenstown, near Banff in Aberdeenshire. During the filming, McLaren was thrown out of the village for unruly behaviour, leaving Reid and Shaw to contest the final election, which was won by Reid. Before his death, Reid had expressed a wish to have a new community centre built in the village; a number of donations have since been secured from his family and others, and this is likely to go ahead in the near future. The show premièred on 24 April 2008 on"
"an underwater shot depicting the bodies that had been placed in the pond, including the recently added bodies of Bob and Ted. Filming began in February 2005. The main filming location was in the village of St Michael Penkevil in Cornwall. Locations on the Isle of Man were used for all filming outside the village. The outer shots of the train is on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, the scene with the car going over a small bridge with the train going over another is just outside Goathland (Aidensfield in ""Heartbeat""). Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 56% of"
"Benedict Sandiford, Louise Delamere, Natasha Pyne, Jonathan Tafler, Richard Lintern, Gregor Truter and Sioned Jones. Cadfael (TV series) Cadfael is a British mystery television series, broadcast on ITV between 1994 and 1998, based on ""The Cadfael Chronicles"" novels written by Ellis Peters. Produced by ITV Central, it starred Derek Jacobi as the medieval detective and title character, Brother Cadfael. The complete series was released on DVD on 24 August 2009. The series aired in the United States as part of the Mystery! series. This detective series is set in the 12th century in England, mainly at the Benedictine Abbey in"
"of their respective enterprises. The opening sequence was shot in Ancoats, Manchester, an area transformed by the Industrial Revolution which helped give the city its nickname Cottonopolis. The sequence features shots of Brunswick Mill, Murrays' Mills and McConnel & Kennedy mills - all three are Manchester's most famous cotton mills in production at the time of the Industrial Revolution and keeps in line with the programme's warehouse theme. The location at which the pitches are filmed has varied over the years. It was originally filmed inside a furniture depository in Stoke Newington. The production were forced to move after the"
"characters from the TV series enter into the real world through a portal below the church (actually in Ireland). The statue featured in the series and film's opening credits is the war memorial, commemorating lives lost in the First and Second World Wars. Hadfield, Derbyshire Hadfield is a town in the High Peak of Derbyshire, England. The population of the town's wards in the 2011 Census was 6,305. It lies on the south side of the River Etherow, the border between Derbyshire and Greater Manchester, at the western edge of the Peak District close to Glossop. Hadfield lies between Bottoms"
"in December 2017 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the group's first appearance on BBC Radio 4. The series was filmed mainly in Hadfield, Derbyshire; other locations include Glossop, Gamesley, and Hope Valley in Derbyshire; Marsden and Todmorden in West Yorkshire; and Mottram in Greater Manchester. The series ended in 2002, and was followed by a film ""The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse"" and a stage production ""The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You!"" in 2005. Shearsmith and Pemberton later collaborated to create another dark comedy series, ""Psychoville"" (2009); Mark Gatiss appeared in one episode. The three also performed together in"
"Heads Park. The village of Horndean has been 'twinned' with the town of Aubergenville in France since 1998. Various activities and exchange visits are organised by the Horndean Parish Twinning Association. Horndean is in the Meon Valley constituency for elections to the House of Commons and the South East England constituency for elections to the European Parliament. ITV Meridian and BBC South are the local ITV and BBC television franchises. ITV Meridian and BBC South is received from the Rowridge transmitting station, on the Isle of Wight (though some parts towards Clanfield use the Horndean relay transmitter, which uses Rowridge"
"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"
"Goathland railway station Goathland railway station is a station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and serves the village of Goathland in the North York Moors National Park, North Yorkshire, England. It is famous for appearing as Aidensfield station in the television series ""Heartbeat"", as the Hogwarts Express stop at Hogsmeade in the ""Harry Potter"" films, as Mannerton in the TV series ""All Creatures Great and Small"", and in the end of the video of ""Holding Back the Years"", a Simply Red song released in 1985. Holiday accommodation is available in the form of a camping coach. This station (originally"
"not received a VHS release, nor has it been released on DVD. Playing the Field Playing the Field is a BBC television drama series following the lives of the Castlefield Blues, a fictitious female football team from South Yorkshire. Inspired by Pete Davies’s novel ""I Lost My Heart To The Belles"" — which was written about a real-life club, the Doncaster Belles — ""Playing the Field"" ran for five series, from 1998–2002, with scripts by, amongst others, Kay Mellor, Sally Wainwright and Gaynor Faye. Despite being set in South Yorkshire, much of the location filming took place in Ilkeston, Derbyshire,"
"contrast, the grounds surrounding Thornfield are sublime and healthful to the novel's many troubled characters and serve as a backdrop to many happier scenes. It is suggested that Brontë based Thornfield on Haddon Hall, near Bakewell, Derbyshire, although the evidence for this is unclear and doubtful; it is perhaps based on filmmakers' use for some of the novel's on-screen adaptations. Haddon Hall has been used to depict Thornfield on multiple occasions: for the 1996 film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, in 2006 for the BBC mini series directed by Susanna White, and for the 2011 feature starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael"
"in the area. The town is served by Stagecoach Manchester bus route 237, going from Glossop to Ashton-under-Lyne, operating at alternating intervals of 20 and 40 minutes up until 6pm then running every hour, and High Peak bus routes 393, operating every hour to Padfield, Glossop and the Shirebrook Park estate; and 61B, which provides a once daily service to Chapel-en-le-Frith. The television series ""The League of Gentlemen"" was filmed in Hadfield, which doubled as the fictional town of Royston Vasey. In the film spin-off from the original series, ""The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse"", Hadfield appears as itself when the"
"Polanski's ""Tess"" (1979), and Christian Cantamessa's ""Air"" (2015). Benson died on 6 September 2018 aged 75, following a relatively short illness. He was surrounded by family and close friends. Peter Benson (actor) Peter Henry Benson (3 April 1943 – 6 September 2018) was a British actor, best known for his role as Bernie Scripps in the popular ITV television series ""Heartbeat"", a police drama set in the fictional Yorkshire village of Aidensfield during the 1960s. He also had a number of other film and television roles, often playing weak or vacillating characters. Born in Wallasey in Cheshire the son of"
"was created and originally followed the Roman road from Bainbridge. In 1795 it was diverted along the valley to Hawes and took the Widdale route, now the B6255 to Ingleton. More recently in 1990, Aysgarth Falls was used as a location in """", in the scene where Robin Hood fights Little John. It also featured in the 1992 film of ""Wuthering Heights"" and the 1984 TV miniseries, ""A Woman of Substance"". Farming, lead mining, dairying and quarrying are the mainstays of the modern economy of the valley, along with tourism. The dairy at Hawes produces Wensleydale cheese. Brewing takes place"