Real geography

The filming counties.

Move through the real map county by county, from the programme’s Home Counties heartland to its exceptional journeys farther afield.

Misty fictional English riverside village with stone cottages, a footbridge and church tower
Original Village Murder Casebook artwork · editorial interpretation

Berkshire

3 mapped locations in the current Casebook directory.

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Littlewick Green

Its green, Cricketers pub, church and village hall support episodes involving cricket, film, insects and scarecrows.

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Cookham Dean

The parish church appears in Habeas Corpus, while the wider Cookham area has supplied other village businesses.

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Hurley

The church, historic hotel and High Street buildings have served as pubs, homes and community locations.

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Buckinghamshire

12 mapped locations in the current Casebook directory.

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Turville

A famously photogenic village whose green, school, windmill and pub have appeared under several Midsomer identities.

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Little Missenden

A recurring village double whose streets, church, manor and Red Lion helped establish the look of Badger's Drift and later communities.

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Long Crendon

Manor houses, the old courthouse, village streets and pubs have supplied country houses, bookshops and competing villages.

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Old Amersham

Historic streets and period buildings repeatedly become Causton, village centres, shops and institutions.

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Beaconsfield

Old-town architecture, churches and nearby estates have supplied homes, police buildings and village streets throughout the run.

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Bledlow

The church, village hall and Lions of Bledlow pub recur as the social centre of several fictional villages.

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Hambleden

Its church, shop, mill and village streets appear in early cases, while much of Wild Harvest was filmed here.

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Little Marlow

The village green, church, pub and houses have portrayed Morton Fendle and other compact Midsomer communities.

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Cuddington

Cottages, halls, churchyard and village shop have supplied police bases, family homes and community events.

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Haddenham

The duck pond, witchert walls, shops and village buildings have portrayed numerous Midsomer communities.

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Fingest

Its distinctive church, cottages and pub have appeared as homes and village gathering places.

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Chesham

The old town, church, market square and shops have doubled for Causton and several fictional villages.

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Denmark

1 mapped location in the current Casebook directory.

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Copenhagen

Nyhavn, Amalienborg and police locations helped mark the programme's hundredth case.

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Hertfordshire

1 mapped location in the current Casebook directory.

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Knebworth House

The Gothic country house stands in for Quitewell Hall in The Dark Rider.

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Oxfordshire

9 mapped locations in the current Casebook directory.

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Wallingford

One of the principal doubles for Causton, with its Corn Exchange, riverside and civic streets appearing repeatedly.

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Thame

A versatile Causton and village backdrop whose town hall, museum, shops and surrounding estates take many identities.

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Warborough

Its broad green, cottages and Six Bells pub have portrayed several villages and supplied recurring community scenes.

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Dorchester-on-Thames

The abbey, museum, hotels and village streets provide a recurring mixture of grandeur and intimacy.

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Henley-on-Thames

Its river, bridge, town hall and nearby Remenham and Harpsden locations lend themselves to clubs, courts and prosperous settings.

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Nettlebed

The village and its Crocker End hamlet have doubled for greens, halls, pubs and festival settings.

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Great Haseley

Its village hall, church, pub and cottages repeatedly become community venues across different Midsomer villages.

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Watlington

The church, market hall, library and High Street shops have appeared as civic and village locations in several eras.

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Mapledurham

Mapledurham House, estate and watermill have provided imposing family homes and later-series rural businesses.

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