Location file · Buckinghamshire
Beaconsfield
Old-town architecture, churches and nearby estates have supplied homes, police buildings and village streets throughout the run.
What it played on screen
From Beaconsfield to Midsomer.
Old-town architecture, churches and nearby estates have supplied homes, police buildings and village streets throughout the run.
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
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.
Curated archive
Connected cases
Written in Blood
A writers' circle welcomes a celebrated novelist, then discovers that literary ambition can be murderously personal.
Open case →S2 E4 · 1999Blood Will Out
The arrival of two travelling communities intensifies an old feud in Martyr Warren before a local magistrate is killed.
Open case →S7 E4 · 2004Sins of Commission
A literary festival gathers ambitious writers, editors and publishers before an author's apparent fall is proved to be murder.
Open case →S7 E7 · 2004Ghosts of Christmas Past
A divided family gathers at its country house for Christmas, nine years after a death nobody has properly faced.
Open case →S8 E2 · 2004Dead in the Water
The chairman of a rowing club is found dead during the regatta, opening a case of secret meetings, blackmail and a carefully planned robbery.
Open case →S8 E6 · 2005Hidden Depths
A solicitor falls from his roof, a neighbour disappears and missing client money leads to a murder by medieval catapult.
Open case →S8 E8 · 2005Midsomer Rhapsody
A murdered music teacher and a missing manuscript reopen the authorship and family history of a late composer.
Open case →S9 E1 · 2005The House in the Woods
A house-hunting couple are found dead beside an isolated cottage, and an unexpected local constable becomes Barnaby's new partner.
Open case →S9 E3 · 2006Vixen's Run
Sir Freddy Butler dies after assembling his wives and heirs, then a missing will and an arson murder turn inheritance into an investigation.
Open case →S9 E5 · 2006Death in Chorus
A choir member is murdered before the Four Choirs Competition, placing Joyce among singers frightened by more than a missed note.
Open case →S9 E8 · 2006Four Funerals and a Wedding
A 90-year battle of the sexes erupts around a Skimmington Ride after an elderly feminist is poisoned.
Open case →S11 E1 · 2008Shot at Dawn
A village feud dating from a First World War execution erupts when a retired colonel is abducted for a grotesque mock firing squad.
Open case →S11 E4 · 2008Midsomer Life
A woodland death links a local magazine, a disputed hotel and a community argument about who counts as an outsider.
Open case →S11 E6 · 2008Days of Misrule
A compulsory police team-building exercise collides with an explosion at a haulage yard and a body recovered from a lake.
Open case →S12 E2 · 2009The Black Book
A rediscovered Victorian landscape sells for £400,000 before its former owner is killed and another painting disappears.
Open case →S12 E3 · 2009Secrets and Spies
A former agent is killed at a country house for retired spies, reviving a Cold War operation and the legend of a village beast.
Open case →S12 E5 · 2009Small Mercies
A man is found bound like Gulliver in a model village, beginning a case about families distorted by secrecy and scale.
Open case →S12 E7 · 2010The Great and the Good
A sleepwalking teacher fears an intruder before two men are killed near her home during preparations for a school fundraiser.
Open case →S13 E7 · 2011Not in My Back Yard
A modern house divides a conservation group before accusations of planning corruption are followed by methodical killings.
Open case →S14 E6 · 2011The Night of the Stag
A tax inspector is found in a cider vat as two neighbouring villages prepare to revive an alarming fertility custom.
Open case →S16 E1 · 2013The Christmas Haunting
A ghost-hunting night at a supposedly haunted manor gives new sergeant Charlie Nelson a distinctly Midsomer welcome.
Open case →S16 E2 · 2014Let Us Prey
Deaths begin to resemble the punishments in a medieval church fresco while storms close in on Midsomer St Claire.
Open case →S18 E6 · 2016Harvest of Souls
A harvest fair and equestrian centre become the stage for a death that reopens an old village grievance.
Open case →S20 E5 · 2020Till Death Do Us Part
A radio presenter is murdered on her wedding night after months of harassment, then another woman dies at a bridal fashion show.
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