Fictional geography desk
The village atlas.
Follow recurring names, one-case settings and the real filming locations attached to all 144 released mysteries through Series 25.
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87 fictional places found
2 cases · John Barnaby
Angel's Rise
The opening of a sculpture park is followed by murder, an explosive inheritance announcement and questions about who created its art.
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2 cases · Tom Barnaby
Aspern Tallow
Barnaby's recuperating aunt suspects that deaths at her nursing home are more organised than natural causes suggest.
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5 cases · Tom Barnaby + John Barnaby
Badger's Drift
An apparently natural death draws Barnaby into a village of immaculate gardens and very untidy secrets.
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2 cases · Tom Barnaby + John Barnaby
Bellville
An Australian niece arrives to visit a wealthy uncle and learns that his friends have already been told she died in a plane crash.
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2 cases · John Barnaby
Binwell
A man convicted of murder returns to Binwell as the people on his prison death list begin to die.
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1 case · John Barnaby
Blacktrees-on-Marsh
A false missile warning sends a survivalist into his bunker, where the apocalypse fails to arrive but murder does.
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1 case · John Barnaby
Bleakridge
A village watch group responds to burglary with absolute certainty—until one of its own is murdered at the butcher's shop.
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1 case · Tom Barnaby
Bledlow
Cully prepares to marry Simon while another grand wedding is disrupted by the murder of its maid of honour.
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1 case · Tom Barnaby
Broughton
A 90-year battle of the sexes erupts around a Skimmington Ride after an elderly feminist is poisoned.
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1 case · John Barnaby
Burwood Mantle
An international cycle race turns fatal after its leader ignores team orders and takes the victory for himself.
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1 case · Tom Barnaby
Calham Cross
A compulsory police team-building exercise collides with an explosion at a haulage yard and a body recovered from a lake.
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1 case · John Barnaby
Carver Valley
A comic convention appears to predict a sequence of killings connected to the night a local woman was badly injured.
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7 cases · Tom Barnaby + John Barnaby
Causton
As Annie Woodrow stands trial for murdering her friend, Barnaby begins to distrust the evidence on which he built the prosecution.
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2 cases · Tom Barnaby + John Barnaby
Chettham Park
A celebrated cat burglar raids Midsomer while a writer planning to expose the Chettham family is smothered on their estate.
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1 case · John Barnaby
Cooper Hill
A ranger vanishes after encountering strange lights at a UFO hotspot, leading the investigation towards a nearby RAF base.
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2 cases · Tom Barnaby
Devington
A prestigious school, a secret society and an annual sporting tradition produce a case steeped in privilege.
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1 case · Tom Barnaby
Draycott
A divided family gathers at its country house for Christmas, nine years after a death nobody has properly faced.
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1 case · Tom Barnaby
Dunstan
A road protest and the deaths of an isolated couple lead Jones back to a schoolfriend lost in a childhood hit-and-run.
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2 cases · Tom Barnaby + John Barnaby
Elverton-cum-Latterly
A supermarket proposal divides the village before an environmental inspector is found murdered on the development site.
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1 case · Tom Barnaby
Ferne Basset
An amateur production of Amadeus gives Barnaby a cast full of motives and a fatal change of props.
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1 case · John Barnaby
Finchmere
An airfield owner is dropped to his death from an aircraft, grounding Barnaby among stunt pilots, campaigners and wartime memories.
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2 cases · Tom Barnaby
Fletcher's Cross
A village cricket match continues around a body and a grand estate whose family history refuses to stay in the pavilion.
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2 cases · Tom Barnaby
Ford Florey
A sleepwalking teacher fears an intruder before two men are killed near her home during preparations for a school fundraiser.
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1 case · John Barnaby
Godley Buzzard
A booby-trapped cuckoo clock kills a guest after an engagement party at Godley Manor, leaving the intended target uncertain.
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Villages that return.
24 principal fictional settings appear in more than one episode. Counts follow each episode’s principal village assignment.
Midsomer Worthy
9 cases · 1998–2016 · Written in Blood · Strangler's Wood · A Worm in the Bud · Death and Dreams · The Green Man
Causton
7 cases · 2006–2025 · Last Year's Model · The Sword of Guillaume · The Ghost of Causton Abbey · The Lions of Causton · Till Death Do Us Part
Badger's Drift
5 cases · 1997–2014 · The Killings at Badger's Drift · Death's Shadow · Midsomer Rhapsody · The Axeman Cometh · The Killings of Copenhagen
Midsomer County
5 cases · 2008–2023 · Midsomer Life · The Magician's Nephew · The Black Book · The Sicilian Defence · For Death Prepare
Midsomer Magna
5 cases · 2001–2007 · Destroying Angel · Birds of Prey · Hidden Depths · King's Crystal · They Seek Him Here
Midsomer Malham
4 cases · 2001–2011 · Tainted Fruit · A Talent for Life · Orchis Fatalis · The Oblong Murders
Midsomer Parva
4 cases · 2001–2009 · The Electric Vendetta · The Straw Woman · Shot at Dawn · Secrets and Spies
Morton Fendle
3 cases · 1998–2006 · Faithful Unto Death · Dead in the Water · Dance with the Dead
Angel's Rise
2 cases · 2016–2023 · A Dying Art · The Witches of Angel's Rise
Aspern Tallow
2 cases · 2000–2000 · Blue Herrings · Beyond the Grave
Bellville
2 cases · 2007–2017 · The Animal Within · Red in Tooth & Claw
Binwell
2 cases · 2012–2023 · Murder of Innocence · Claws Out
Chettham Park
2 cases · 2010–2011 · The Creeper · Dark Secrets
Devington
2 cases · 2002–2010 · Murder on St Malley's Day · Master Class
Elverton-cum-Latterly
2 cases · 2006–2024 · Country Matters · Dressed to Kill
Fletcher's Cross
2 cases · 1999–2004 · Dead Man's Eleven · Things That Go Bump in the Night
Ford Florey
2 cases · 2010–2010 · The Great and the Good · Blood on the Saddle
Goodman's Land
2 cases · 2001–2023 · Dark Autumn · A Climate of Death
Little Upton
2 cases · 2005–2022 · Sauce for the Goose · The Scarecrow Murders
Little Worthy
2 cases · 2009–2021 · Small Mercies · The Wolf Hunter of Little Worthy
Luxton Deeping
2 cases · 2007–2015 · Picture of Innocence · The Dagger Club
Midsomer Deverell
2 cases · 2000–2025 · Garden of Death · Lawn of the Dead
Midsomer Mallow
2 cases · 2000–2004 · Judgement Day · Bad Tidings
Midsomer Market
2 cases · 2002–2007 · Market for Murder · Death and Dust