Location file · Oxfordshire
Mapledurham
Mapledurham House, estate and watermill have provided imposing family homes and later-series rural businesses.
What it played on screen
From Mapledurham to Midsomer.
Mapledurham House, estate and watermill have provided imposing family homes and later-series rural businesses.
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
Mapledurham is a historic estate beside the Thames north-west of Reading. Its Elizabethan house, watermill, church and parkland form a rare group, with the river and wooded slopes creating a secluded country-house setting despite the estate's proximity to a large town.
Access is controlled by the estate and can be seasonal or event-dependent; it should not be treated like an always-open village street. When open, the buildings and landscape are best understood as one designed place. Check the estate's own programme, admission details and transport guidance before travelling.
Curated archive
Connected cases
The Fisher King
A Celtic spear and a reopened burial mound disturb the lies left behind by a fatal archaeological dig.
Open case →S14 E2 · 2011Dark Secrets
A social-services investigator's apparent canoeing accident draws Barnaby towards a reclusive family and an estate full of accumulated history.
Open case →S23 E3 · 2024A Grain of Truth
An organic bakery divides its village before a mass poisoning and two attacks make the dispute impossible to dismiss.
Open case →S24 E1 · 2023The Devil's Work
A country-estate funeral is followed by a radically different inheritance plan—and then by murder within the Shirewell family circle.
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