Location file · Buckinghamshire
Chesham
The old town, church, market square and shops have doubled for Causton and several fictional villages.
What it played on screen
From Chesham to Midsomer.
The old town, church, market square and shops have doubled for Causton and several fictional villages.
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
Chesham is a Chiltern market town set in the Chess valley, with recorded history reaching back more than a thousand years. The old town around St Mary's Church, the market area and surviving historic shopfronts contrasts with later growth along the valley and around the station.
It is one of the easiest locations to reach without a car because it sits at the end of the Metropolitan line. Local self-guided history trails help distinguish the older filming streets from the modern town centre, while paths along the River Chess open up a different side of the landscape.
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 →S3 E1 · 1999Death of a Stranger
A stranger's death after a fox hunt forces Barnaby to question a close-knit rural circle and a conveniently solved case.
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 →S8 E1 · 2004Things That Go Bump in the Night
An undertaker is killed in his chapel of rest while a spiritualist church offers the bereaved rather more information than chance should allow.
Open case →S10 E4 · 2007The Axeman Cometh
A veteran rock band reunites at the Midsomer Rocks festival before its singer is electrocuted in front of the crowd.
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 →S13 E1 · 2010The Sword of Guillaume
A Causton business trip to Brighton ends in a ghost-train beheading and introduces Tom to his cousin DCI John Barnaby.
Open case →S15 E2 · 2012Murder of Innocence
A man convicted of murder returns to Binwell as the people on his prison death list begin to die.
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