Real building · fictional function

What the landmarks played.

Compare the pubs, churches and manor houses that repeatedly give Midsomer its public rooms, parish centres and family estates.

Misty fictional English riverside village with stone cottages, a footbridge and church tower
Original Village Murder Casebook artwork · editorial interpretation

Village pubs

6 checked landmark records.

Warborough · Oxfordshire

The Six Bells

A remarkably adaptable village local, including the pub in Midsomer Newton and later The Fisherman's Arms.

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Turville · Buckinghamshire

The Bull & Butcher

Appears as The Chalk and Gown and later as The Spotted Cow in two school-centred cases.

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Little Missenden · Buckinghamshire

The Red Lion

A recurring village-pub exterior, including the Midsomer Magna local and Great Worthy's Signalman.

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Bledlow · Buckinghamshire

The Lions of Bledlow

Used as The Queen's Arms and the Hearts of Oak, among several changing fictional identities.

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Long Crendon · Buckinghamshire

The Eight Bells

Its exterior became the Florey Arms and the local pub in Midsomer Malham.

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Littlewick Green · Berkshire

The Cricketers

A natural screen anchor for Little Crosby and the scarecrow festival at Midsomer Langley.

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Parish churches

6 checked landmark records.

Dorchester-on-Thames · Oxfordshire

Dorchester Abbey

The abbey serves as a Causton church during the organ scenes in Master Class.

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Little Missenden · Buckinghamshire

St John the Baptist Church

A recurring parish church for Great Worthy, Midsomer Parva, Angel's Rise and other villages.

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Hambleden · Buckinghamshire

St Mary the Virgin Church

Its tower, memorial and churchyard helped form the parish landscape of Martyr Warren and Midsomer Worthy.

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Little Marlow · Buckinghamshire

St John the Baptist Church

The compact church and green became the parish centre of Morton Fendle and Midsomer Malham.

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Hurley · Berkshire

St Mary the Virgin Church

Used as the church at Aspern Tallow and later as the parish church of Midsomer St Claire.

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Bledlow · Buckinghamshire

Holy Trinity Church

Appears as the church in Midsomer Cicely and Granville Norton.

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Manor houses & estates

6 checked landmark records.

Chenies · Buckinghamshire

Chenies Manor

A versatile historic house seen as Edward Allardice's home, Malham Manor and Apley Court.

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Long Crendon · Buckinghamshire

Long Crendon Manor

Used as the Spirit of Friendship Spiritualist Church and later Badger's Hall.

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Nether Winchendon · Buckinghamshire

Nether Winchendon House

The distinctive medieval house became the Lodge of the Golden Windhorse and Monks Barton Priory.

Mapledurham · Oxfordshire

Mapledurham House

The house and wider estate stand in for the Stourwick Estate in a later Barnaby case.

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Knebworth · Hertfordshire

Knebworth House

The Gothic exterior supplies the imposing Quitewell Hall.

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Dorney · Buckinghamshire

Dorney Court

The Tudor house represents the Fox & Goose Hotel in an early tobacco-industry mystery.

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