Location file · Buckinghamshire
Old Amersham
Historic streets and period buildings repeatedly become Causton, village centres, shops and institutions.
What it played on screen
From Old Amersham to Midsomer.
Historic streets and period buildings repeatedly become Causton, village centres, shops and institutions.
The description above records what the real place supplied on screen. The list gives each linked case and its principal fictional setting; a production may use only one building or street rather than the entire settlement.
Beyond the camera
About the real place
Old Amersham sits in the Misbourne valley below the later railway suburb of Amersham-on-the-Hill. Its High Street developed as a market and coaching centre, leaving a strong collection of old inns, timber-framed buildings, Georgian frontages and St Mary's Church.
The contrast between the preserved old town and the modern transport hub above it is useful for visitors to understand. Amersham Museum, housed in historic High Street buildings, provides local context on crafts, commerce and the arrival of Metropolitan Railway growth. The filming streets are best explored on foot once you reach the old town.
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Curated archive
Connected cases
Death of a Hollow Man
An amateur production of Amadeus gives Barnaby a cast full of motives and a fatal change of props.
Open case →S1 E5 · 1998Death in Disguise
A death at a New Age commune brings Barnaby into a world of mysticism, money and carefully remade identities.
Open case →S2 E3 · 1999Dead Man's Eleven
A village cricket match continues around a body and a grand estate whose family history refuses to stay in the pavilion.
Open case →S3 E2 · 2000Blue Herrings
Barnaby's recuperating aunt suspects that deaths at her nursing home are more organised than natural causes suggest.
Open case →S4 E4 · 2001Who Killed Cock Robin?
A doctor's late-night collision and a body recovered from a well turn two missing men into one unusually tangled village case.
Open case →S8 E7 · 2005Sauce for the Goose
A factory visitor is found inside Plummer's relish machinery, exposing a family business with more guarded secrets than its recipe.
Open case →S14 E7 · 2011A Sacred Trust
A nun's murder and missing antique silver place the threatened future of Midsomer Priory under investigation.
Open case →S16 E5 · 2014The Killings of Copenhagen
The hundredth case links a poisoned biscuit, a Badger's Drift company and a murder inquiry in Copenhagen.
Open case →S19 E3 · 2017Last Man Out
A radical new cricket tournament is followed by the death of its star player—and the return of a familiar former detective.
Open case →S21 E2 · 2020The Miniature Murders
A disliked property owner is murdered during the unveiling of a dolls-house collection at a family museum.
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