The Village Murder Casebook

Filming location · Buckinghamshire

Beaconsfield

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

Beaconsfield Old Town war memorial and historic street buildings
Beaconsfield Old Town, whose period streets and nearby properties have played many Midsomer settings.Photo: Colin Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source

What it played on screen

From Beaconsfield to Midsomer.

Written in BloodS1 E2 · 1998Exact filming spot not confirmedBlood Will OutS2 E4 · 1999Exact filming spot not confirmedSins of CommissionS7 E4 · 2004Exact filming spot not confirmedGhosts of Christmas PastS7 E7 · 2004St Mary and All Saints Church → The church and churchyard supply Causton's parish church and the grave-inspection scenes.Dead in the WaterS8 E2 · 2004Exact filming spot not confirmedHidden DepthsS8 E6 · 2005Former bank building → The building becomes the Causton branch of the Shires Bank.Midsomer RhapsodyS8 E8 · 2005Exact filming spot not confirmedThe House in the WoodsS9 E1 · 2005Exact filming spot not confirmedVixen's RunS9 E3 · 2006Exact filming spot not confirmedDeath in ChorusS9 E5 · 2006Exact filming spot not confirmedFour Funerals and a WeddingS9 E8 · 2006St Mary and All Saints Church → The church supplies part of the fictional St Mary at Plea in Broughton.Shot at DawnS11 E1 · 2008Exact filming spot not confirmedMidsomer LifeS11 E4 · 2008Exact filming spot not confirmedDays of MisruleS11 E6 · 2008Exact filming spot not confirmedThe Black BookS12 E2 · 2009Exact filming spot not confirmedSecrets and SpiesS12 E3 · 2009The Reading Room → The exterior becomes Causton Museum.Small MerciesS12 E5 · 2009Exact filming spot not confirmedThe Great and the GoodS12 E7 · 2010The Royal Saracens Head → The hotel appears as a restaurant in Ford Florey.Not in My Back YardS13 E7 · 2011Beaconsfield Police Station → The building represents Midsomer Constabulary Police Station.The Night of the StagS14 E6 · 2011Aylesbury End → The road is used for Aidan Hardy's run through the village.The Christmas HauntingS16 E1 · 2013Aylesbury End → The historic street supplies the route and setting for Morton Shallows' Santa parade.Let Us PreyS16 E2 · 2014Village house → A private house supplies the recurring exterior of Dr Kate Wilding's home.Harvest of SoulsS18 E6 · 2016Hall Barn → The country estate appears as Jasper Wyham's home.Till Death Do Us PartS20 E5 · 2020The Bridal Boutique → The shopfront becomes Serena Madison's Lily Lou Lou bridal business.

The programme may use one building or street rather than the whole settlement.

Beyond the camera

About the real place

Beaconsfield has two distinct centres. The Old Town grew around a historic road junction and retains coaching inns, churches and period buildings, while the New Town developed around the railway in the early twentieth century. Screen productions mainly prize the older streets and the substantial properties nearby.

A location visit can be paired with Bekonscot Model Village in the New Town, one of Britain's oldest model villages, or with other south Buckinghamshire stops. Traffic through the Old Town can be busy, so it is better approached as a walking circuit from proper public parking than as a sequence of roadside photographs.

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Practical details

Visiting Beaconsfield

  • Rail: Beaconsfield has a National Rail station on Penn Road. National Rail ↗ (checked 5 October 2026).
  • Food and drink: The Royal Standard of England is listed as a pub in Forty Green; current food service is not confirmed here. (Site type checked 5 October 2026.)

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