Fictional location file · 2 cases
Little Upton
Little Upton is a fictional Midsomer village. Scenes in its linked episodes were filmed at Old Amersham, Little Marlow, Littlewick Green.
The fictional village of Little Upton appears in 2 Midsomer Murders cases, from Sauce for the Goose to The Scarecrow Murders. Its screen identity sits among eccentric stories. Explore the linked episodes below to follow the village through the series.
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Casebook interpretation
Welcome to Little Upton
A compact community whose respectable frontage conceals the usual Midsomer density of alliances and resentments.
Little Upton feels socially legible at first glance, then steadily more complicated as connections emerge.
Why fans remember it: The classic closed-circle pleasure of discovering that everybody has a reason to know everybody else.
Editorial interpretation The village is fictional; real places linked to its stories are listed below when known.
What the Casebook has on file
At a glance
The details below describe the village as it appears in the programme; Midsomer is a fictional county.
- Cases
- 2
- On-screen years
- 2005–2022
- Barnaby era
- Tom Barnaby + John Barnaby
- Detective
- DCI Tom Barnaby · DCI John Barnaby
- Investigating partner
- DS Dan Scott · DS Jamie Winter
- Casebook tone
- Eccentric
Stories set here
Cases connected to Little Upton
Spoiler-light summaries, with a direct route into each complete episode file.
Sauce for the Goose
A factory visitor is found inside Plummer's relish machinery, exposing a family business with more guarded secrets than its recipe.
- Relish factory
- Family business
- Industrial death
The Scarecrow Murders
A village festival becomes a gallery of human scarecrows, each victim linked to an older financial disaster.
- Scarecrow festival
- Old investment
- Village spectacle
Institutions & village life
Places and village life
Village hall
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Local shops
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Community societies
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Curated story character
Themes associated with this setting
Four distinctive ingredients are shown here. Linked case files retain the complete theme record without overwhelming the village portrait.
Fan calculation · not canon
Village survival card
- Case-file danger
- ●●●○○
- Documented cases
- 2
- Most suspicious pastime
- Relish factory
- Best precaution
- Decline the invitation politely
This playful score uses only the number of linked cases and breadth of recorded themes. It is not a population or canonical crime-rate statistic.
Fiction versus filming
Real places connected to these cases
These are broader verified filming areas attached to the episode files—not proof that one real village represents the whole fictional setting.
Old Amersham
Historic streets and period buildings repeatedly become Causton, village centres, shops and institutions.
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Little Marlow
The village green, church, pub and houses have portrayed Morton Fendle and other compact Midsomer communities.
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Littlewick Green
Its green, Cricketers pub, church and village hall support episodes involving cricket, film, insects and scarecrows.
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Villages with related story ingredients
Suggested from shared curated themes, not fictional geography.
