"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"","
"Botallack Botallack () is a village in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies along the B3306 road which connects St Ives to the A30 road. The village is in a former tin mining area situated between the town of St Just in Penwith {where the 2011 Census population was included} and the village of Pendeen. The Botallack Mine, former tin mines, are low down the cliffs north of Botallack. The BBC television series ""Poldark"" was filmed partly in Botallack, using Manor Farm as Nampara. Lae Maen Veor (Cornish: ""Legh Men Veur"" meaning ""great stone ledge""), or Botallack Head, is"
"Princess of Wales visited and descended down the shaft, creating a mini-boom in tourism that caused the mine operators to charge visitors a guinea per person. The mine closed in 1895 as a result of falling tin and copper prices. The mining developments around Botallack form part of the St Just mining district's successful inclusion in the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage site which was inscribed in July 2006. The 1970s BBC television series ""Poldark"" was filmed partly in Botallack, using Manor Farm as Nampara. More recently, filming for the new ""Poldark"" series also took place here."
"retained the novel's British setting and bleak ending. Five of Graham's other books have been filmed, including: Winston Graham Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE, born Winston Grime (30 June 1908 – 10 July 2003), was an English novelist best known for the Poldark series of historical novels set in Cornwall. Winston Graham was the author's pseudonym until he changed his name by deed poll from Grime to Graham on 7 May 1947. He also wrote many other novels, including thrillers and historical novels. Graham was born in Victoria Park, Manchester, on 30 June 1908. As a child, Winston contracted pneumonia, and"
"Winston Graham Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE, born Winston Grime (30 June 1908 – 10 July 2003), was an English novelist best known for the Poldark series of historical novels set in Cornwall. Winston Graham was the author's pseudonym until he changed his name by deed poll from Grime to Graham on 7 May 1947. He also wrote many other novels, including thrillers and historical novels. Graham was born in Victoria Park, Manchester, on 30 June 1908. As a child, Winston contracted pneumonia, and on medical advice was educated at a local day school rather than Manchester Grammar School which his"
"Cornwall from the British Museum. A story told by the Rev. W. S. Lach-Szyrma, to a group of antiquarians from the Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society, was the legend of the tower: For the purposes of local government Towednack is a civil parish electing a parish council every four years. The principal local authority in this area is Cornwall Council. In 1975 the church was the scene for the marriage and burial services in Poldark, a BBC series based on the novels of Winston Graham. It was also used as a location in the 1979 BBC series Penmarric. Towednack"
"a headland to the north west of Botallack. The local community radio station is Coast FM (formerly Penwith Radio), which broadcasts on 96.5 and 97.2 FM. Botallack Botallack () is a village in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies along the B3306 road which connects St Ives to the A30 road. The village is in a former tin mining area situated between the town of St Just in Penwith {where the 2011 Census population was included} and the village of Pendeen. The Botallack Mine, former tin mines, are low down the cliffs north of Botallack. The BBC television series"
"her at Poldark Mine which was dedicated by her son. The BBC approached Peter Young to use the mine as location for a number of scenes for their 1977 series of ""Poldark"". This included some of the underground sequences. ""The Man in the Iron Mask"" had his mask made and fitted at Wendron Forge in the 1977 TV production, most other locations being in France. Another, shorter, BBC series ""Penmarrick"" was filmed at the mine in 1979. The most recent filming on the site was in summer 2014, for the new BBC series of Poldark broadcast in 2015. The mine"
"G. Sebald, and among Arthur Ransome's children's books, ""We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea, Coot Club"" and ""Secret Water"" take place in part in the county. Roald Dahl's short story ""The Mildenhall Treasure"" is set in Mildenhall. A TV series about a British antiques dealer, ""Lovejoy"", was filmed in various locations in Suffolk. The reality TV series ""Space Cadets"" was filmed in Rendlesham Forest, although the producers fooled participants into believing that they were in Russia. Several towns and villages in the county have been used for location filming of other television programmes and cinema films. These include the"
"Hall"" in the ""Lovejoy"" television series. Belchamp Walter Belchamp Walter is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is located approximately west of Sudbury, Suffolk and is 35 km (22 miles) north-northeast from the county town of Chelmsford. It is near Belchamp St Paul and Belchamp Otten. The village is in the district of Braintree and in the parliamentary constituency of Braintree. The parish is part of the Stour Valley South parish cluster and has a population of 198 (2011 census). Belchamp Hall is a country house in the village which stands near the church. It was the"
"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"
"BBC's ""Nightwatch"" and the CBBC's series ""Sparticles"". Two productions were shot at Chavenage in 2013, ""The Unknown Heart"", based on an idea by Rosamunde Pilcher as well the historical drama ""New Worlds"" (Channel 4), starring Jamie Dornan. Chavenage is Trenwith House in the new adaption of Winston Graham's ""Poldark"" (2015 TV series), starring Aidan Turner. Chavenage House Chavenage House is an Elizabethan era house northwest of Tetbury, in the Cotswolds area of Gloucestershire, England. The house was built in 1576 and is constructed of Cotswold stone, with a Cotswold stone tiled roof. The estate of Chavenage was sold to Edward"
"Graham's series ""Poldark"" (and the television series derived from it), Kate Tremayne's Adam Loveday series, and ""Greenwitch"", and Mary Wesley's ""The Camomile Lawn"" are all set in Cornwall. Writing under the pseudonym of Alexander Kent, Douglas Reeman sets parts of his Richard Bolitho and Adam Bolitho series in the Cornwall of the late 18th and the early 19th centuries, particularly in Falmouth. Hammond Innes's novel, ""The Killer Mine""; also has a Cornish setting. Charles de Lint, writer of many modern and urban fairy tales, set his novel ""The Little Country"" in the village of Mousehole in Cornwall. Chapters 24 and"
"TV serial ""Wolf Hall"" were filmed there in 2014. The house is also used as the filming location for Killewarran House in the BBC series of ""Poldark"". Great Chalfield Manor Great Chalfield Manor is an English country house at Great Chalfield, about northeast of the town of Bradford on Avon in the west of the county of Wiltshire. Pevsner describes Great Chalfield as ""one of the most perfect examples of the late medieval English manor house"". The moated manor house was built around 1465–1480 for Thomas Tropenell, a modest member of the landed gentry who made a fortune as a"
"Aldham, Suffolk Aldham is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England. Located around west of Ipswich, in 2005 it had a population of 200, reducing to 175 at the 2011 Census. According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is Ealda's meadow/enclosure or old meadow/enclosure. The village was mentioned in the Domesday Book, at which time it had a population of 16. The church of Aldham St Mary is one of 38 existing round-tower churches in Suffolk. It appears in the second series of the BBC Four television series ""Detectorists"". On 1555 Aldham"
"Basil Dearden's 1961 suspense film ""Victim"", starring Dirk Bogarde as the barrister Melville Farr, was set in Chiswick, and many of its scenes were filmed on Chiswick Mall, where Farr lived. Chiswick Chiswick ( ) is a district of west London, England. It contains Hogarth's House, the former residence of the 18th-century English artist William Hogarth; Chiswick House, a neo-Palladian villa regarded as one of the finest in England; and Fuller's Brewery, London's largest and oldest brewery. In a meander of the River Thames used for competitive and recreational rowing, with several rowing clubs on the river bank, the finishing"
"Poldice mine Poldice mine is a former metalliferous mine located in Poldice Valley in south-west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated near the hamlet of Todpool, between the villages of Twelveheads and St Day, three miles (5 km) east of Redruth. A legal document of 1512 about a theft of tin ""near Poldyth in Wennap"" indicates that mining was probably taking place around Poldice at that time, but this mine is certainly known to have been in operation by the 17th century. In 1748, Poldice's chief adventurer William Lemon and manager John Williams started the Great County Adit in"
"17-year-old boys and girls. In 1970 the Doctor Who serial - Doctor Who and the Silurians was partly filmed at Milford Hospital. In the series it was called the Wenley Hospital. The actual filming took place in November 1969. Milford, Surrey Milford is the civil parish and large village which is south west of Godalming in Surrey, England which was a small village in the early medieval period — it grew significantly after the building of the Portsmouth Direct Line which serves Godalming railway station and its own minor stop railway station. The village, served by a wide array of"
"site donated by the Pattons of Croghan. Further building continued throughout the period including a chapel of ease in Fanavolty circa 1840. In 1837, Samuel Lewis published a topographical dictionary which included the following contemporary description of the Parish of Clondavaddog: ""CLONDEVADOCK, or CLONDEVADOGUE, a parish, in the barony of KILMACRENAN, county of DONEGAL, and province of ULSTER, 15½ miles (N. by E.) from Letterkenny; containing 9595 inhabitants. This parish, which comprises, according to the Ordnance survey, 27,367¼: statute acres, of which 627¾ are water, is situated on the north-western coast; it comprehends the greater part of the peninsular district"
"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"
"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"
"County Kilkenny. Part of the success of the series was because many of the leading actors were themselves from the background they represented. John Cowley, who played the patriarch of the family, ""Tom Riordan"" was from real farming stock in Ardbraccan in County Meath and many of the issues his character had to deal with reflected his own life experiences in rural Ireland. Actor Tom Hickey, who played ""Benjy"" was from County Kildare in the midlands and also had personal experience of life in the part of the country in which the programme was set. Among the many series writers"
"Ledshire Ledshire was a fictional county in the north of England in two novels by Susan Pleydell, ""Summer Term"" (1959) and ""A Young Man's Fancy"" (1962). It was also the name of a county in the Miss Silver novels (1928-61) of Patricia Wentworth. The Ledshire of Susan Pleydell was a small, almost entirely agricultural county. Its main (presumably, county) town, on the River Ledd, was Ledenham, the location of a 400-year-old boys' public school that was the focus of the novels. Ledenham contained ""two or three unexpectedly good hotels and shops"", as well as a Regal cinema. A major landmark"
"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"
"shown on Living TV. Avebury is the setting for Robert Goddard's 2005 fictional thriller, ""Sight Unseen"". Avebury, Wiltshire Avebury () is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is about west of Marlborough and northeast of Devizes. Much of the village is encircled by the prehistoric monument complex also known as Avebury. The parish also includes the small villages of Avebury Trusloe and Beckhampton, and the hamlet of West Kennett. The Avebury monument is vast, and consists of several smaller sites of varying dates. The earliest of these, the earthworks, dates to between 3400 and 2625 BC."
"pottery (). Ballydugan Ballydugan or Ballydougan () is a townland in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It lies on the County Armagh–County Down border, between Lurgan and Gilford. Ballydougan is within the Craigavon Borough Council area. The Mid-Ulster brigade of the Ulster Volunteer Force killed three Catholics in Ballydugan on 4 January 1976 as well as another three Catholics (three brothers) in Whitecross the same day. The Kingsmill massacre by the South Armagh Republican Action Force left 10 Protestant men dead the following day. Bloomvale House has had craftspeople living and working in it since 1785 and is currently the home"
"Robin Ellis Anthony Robin Ellis (born 8 January 1942) is an English actor best known for his role as Captain Ross Poldark in 29 episodes of the BBC classic series ""Poldark"", adapted from a series of books by the late British author Winston Graham. He also appeared in ""Fawlty Towers"", ""Cluedo"", ""The Good Soldier"" (an adaptation of the Ford Madox Ford novel), ""Elizabeth R"" (playing Essex), ""The Moonstone"", ""Bel Ami"", ""Sense and Sensibility"" (which also featured Clive Francis), ""The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes"", ""She Loves Me"" (in which he sings) and ""Blue Remembered Hills"" (written by Dennis Potter). In 2015,"
"test Derek Acorah and his abilities. The name was created because it was an anagram of the phrase 'Derek Faker'. Bodmin Jail has featured in the 2015 BBC television series ""Poldark"" as one of the locations where filming took place. Bodmin Jail Bodmin Jail (alternatively Bodmin Gaol) is an historic former prison situated in Bodmin, on the edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. Built in 1779 and closed in 1927, the large range of buildings is now largely in ruins, although parts of the prison have been turned into a tourist attraction. Bodmin Gaol was designed by Sir John Call"
"Poldark Poldark is a series of historical novels by Winston Graham, published from 1945 to 1953 and continued from 1973 to 2002. The series comprises 12 novels: the first seven are set in the 18th century, concluding in Christmas 1799; the remaining five are concerned with the early years of the 19th century and the lives of the descendants of the previous novels' main characters. Graham wrote the first four ""Poldark"" books during the 1940s and 1950s. Following a long hiatus, he decided to resume the series and published ""The Black Moon"" in 1973. The main character, Ross Poldark, is"
"regional orthopaedic hospital based outside Kilkenny in Kilcreene. Aut Even is a private hospital based outside the city of Kilkenny. In Castlecomer there is Castlecomer District Hospital. There are also health centres based around County Kilkenny including in Ballyhale, Ballyragget, Bennettsbridge, Callan, Castlecomer, Clogh, Castlecomer, Freshford, Gowran, Graiguenamanagh, Marley and Tinnahinch in Graiguenamanagh, Inistioge, Johnstown, Loughboy in Kilkenny, Stoneyford, Kilmacow, Mullinavat, Paulstown, Rosbercon, Thomastown, Urlingford and Windgap. The Riordans (1965 to 1979) made by Raidió Teilifís Éireann (then called ""Telefís Éireann"") was set in the fictional townland of Leestown in County Kilkenny. Its use of Outside Broadcast Units and its"
"further down the Tolka. Alleviation works have resulted in the risk of flooding being severely lessened. The last major flood was in 2002, preceded by floods in 2000 and 1987. On 11 May 2007 the town was hit by a small tornado in which slates were torn from roofs and branches from trees during the brief storm, which occurred just after 6:30 pm. Dunboyne was the backdrop for the fictional village of Leestown in the successful television series of the 1970s called ""The Riordans"". More recently certain elements of the local Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) clubs and country houses were"
"Clodock Clodock is a village in the west of Herefordshire, England. It lies on the River Monnow in the foothills of the Black Mountains, close to the border with Wales. The village is in the civil parish of Longtown. Before 1536 Clodock was in the marcher lordship of Ewyas. Until 1866 it was a large parish (until 1852 in the diocese of St David's), which included the chapelries of Craswall, Llanveynoe, Longtown and Newton. In 1866 each chapelry became a separate civil parish, and the village of Clodock became part of the civil parish of Longtown. The parish church is"
"wheel of smaller size and made in 1904 at Harveys of Hayle is now fitted in the pit. The author of the ""Poldark"" books Winston Graham gave permission to use the title as the name of the mine. He launched some of his books at Poldark Mine, including the last Poldark book in 2002, a year before his death. Actress Angharad Rees, who had the leading role of Demelza in the 1970s BBC TV costume drama ""Poldark"" was a regular visitor to the mine and gardens up to the time of her death in 2012. There is a memorial to"