Location file · Oxfordshire
Wallingford
One of the principal doubles for Causton, with its Corn Exchange, riverside and civic streets appearing repeatedly.
What it played on screen
From Wallingford to Midsomer.
One of the principal doubles for Causton, with its Corn Exchange, riverside and civic streets appearing repeatedly.
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
Wallingford is a compact Thames-side market town with a history far older than its television alter ego. It was an important fortified Saxon settlement and later the site of one of medieval England's most powerful castles. The surviving castle earthworks, market square and riverside give the centre an unusually rich mix of civic and rural scenery.
Visitors can combine the familiar streets around the Market Place and Corn Exchange with Wallingford Museum, the castle gardens and a walk beside the Thames. The town is substantial enough for cafés and shops but small enough to explore on foot, which makes it one of the most practical bases for a filming-location day.
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Midsomer Murders locations day tour
A full-day coach trip from London. The operator’s published itinerary includes Wallingford, Warborough, Dorchester-on-Thames and Henley-on-Thames, with further village stops subject to the day’s route.
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 →S2 E1 · 1999Death's Shadow
A brutal death interrupts the Barnabys' anniversary plans and reopens a tragedy from three decades earlier.
Open case →S2 E2 · 1999Strangler's Wood
The death of a visiting model resembles a notorious unsolved case, but the local tobacco business supplies fresher motives.
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 →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 E6 · 2001Tainted Fruit
A wealthy young woman's hostility leaves Barnaby with a crowded suspect list when she is killed using stolen barbiturates.
Open case →S5 E1 · 2002Market for Murder
A genteel reading group is really an investment circle, and its members begin paying a much steeper price than expected.
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 →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 →S18 E3 · 2016Breaking the Chain
An international cycle race turns fatal after its leader ignores team orders and takes the victory for himself.
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