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For avid fans wanting a Saunderton Horse Trust truly immersive Midsomer A4010 experience, stay in Chinnor accommodation filmed A4128 AMERSHAM & Hughenden MISBOURNE West NT VALLEY for the show such as the Oxford M40 Wycombe Manor Chiltern Valley Winery and Bledlow Park Hell Fire Bekonscot Caves Model Village Brewery which became Ridge NT Wycombe Many of the walks pass through agricultural farmland Ibstone Museum the gin distillery in ‘The Curse of the Ninth’, Danesfield A40 Beaconsfield supplying produce to local shops and restaurants. Seen Fingest House Hotel and Spa which appeared in two episodes, HIGH in the show when a man is found dead in the dairy, or traditional coaching inns filmed in the pretty villages of WYCOMBE Laceys Family Farm with their herd of Guernsey cows Turville Frieth M40 Hambleden and Cadsden. London produces milk and cream, from grass to glass; sold with Little Marlow Skirmett MARLOW Odds Farm other local produce in their farm shop. We’ve spotted eleven pubs in the area filmed for the show, Hambleden Marlow A4155 a number of churches, a forge, the steam railway and Museum Bourne End Finest foods from around the world are brought together Bekonscot Model Village which captures 1 0’s England in River Thames with local and seasonal produce into award-winning, chef- miniature and appeared in ‘Small Mercies’ when the victim is NT Cliveden restaurants The Hand & Flowers, Sindhu and The Vanilla laid out like Gulliver in Lilliput. Henley-on-Thames A404 Pod in Marlow. Fine fare can be also be found in simpler Cookham cafés and delis across the area like The Apple Orchard in MAIDENHEAD Spend time outdoors in this Chilterns Area of Outstanding J8/9 M4 West Wycombe, The Grange, Saunderton, and Fieldmouse Natural Beauty. Enjoy boat trips from Marlow or Henley, deli in Princes Risborough; or in highly-rated Indian, Thai explore a nature reserve, or visit the animals at Odds Farm, and Mediterranean restaurants in High Wycombe. After a Beaconsfield and The Horse Trust and its unique Black Filming locations where you can eat, sleep and visit day’s walking to build up your appetite, take your pick Beauty tea rooms in Princes Risborough. Rainy day options Stay: Danesfield House Hotel, The Stag Huntsman include museums in Marlow, High Wycombe, Aylesbury and (Hambleden), Henley Greenlands Hotel, The Olde Bell (Hurley), Amersham, as well as theatre, cinema, covered shopping and The Plough (Cadsden), Chiltern Valley Winery. leisure complexes in High Wycombe. Eat & Drink: La Chouette (Dinton), The Lions of Bledlow, The Chequers (Fingest), The Two Brewers (Marlow), The Queens Head (Little Marlow), The Bull and Butcher (Turville), The Royal Standard of England (Forty Green), The Eight Bells (Long Crendon), The Crown (Sydenham). Visit: St. Nicholas Church at Nether Winchendon, Gomme’s Forge in Loosley Row, St. Dunstan’s Church at Monks Risborough, Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway, Bekonscot Model Village. Information Centres: In Princes Risborough, Marlow and High Wycombe (not a filming location). STEP INTO MIDSOMER
ITV’s longest-running contemporary detective series, Midsomer Murders, reveals some of England’s most beautiful countryside, as scenic landscapes of farming, woodland, valleys and far-reaching views continue to attract location managers of the show. We suggest three areas with great walks that get you out into the open. Enjoy short and long walk options, hilly or flat, and those accessible for wheelchairs and buggies. Cadsden The Ridgeway Monks Risborough The Icknield Way Princes A Gateway to The Chilterns Risborough The Chiltern Way Bledlow he Ridgeway National and Pyrtle Spring, where chalk meets clay; or man-made Saunderton Trail is 87 miles long features, such as World War 2 trenches, a water garden, T and the oldest road in windmill, a white cross etched in the chalk, and Grim’s Ditch - England. We focus at a point earthworks believed to be original Celtic boundary lines. where it connects with the Bledlow Filming locations in this area include Princes Risborough Ridge Chiltern Way and the Icknield Information Centre as Causton Social Services in ‘Shot at Way; in and around Princes Dawn’, the episode where a bizarre battle with baguettes Risborough, a settlement which appeared in the Domesday breaks out between two veterans in a pub while Barnaby and Book (1086). Joyce are having a ‘quiet’ dinner. Donald Sinden and George Well connected by direct rail and bus links into Princes Cole play the two veterans, in a long-standing tradition of Risborough, you can be in the countryside in ten minutes. famous faces appearing in the show. Set your sights on Whiteleaf Hill Nature Reserve, the hill fort Bledlow has 10 episodes to its name, is home to Badger’s at NT Pulpit Hill near Cadsden or Yoesden Nature Reserve Drift Church and the pub, The Lions of Bledlow has appeared near Bledlow Ridge. five times. Monks Risborough, Cadsden and the area around Experience the natural delights of native box woodland, Saunderton also make appearances. as seen in ‘Death in a Chocolate Box’. Board a train orchids, red kites, animals grazing, large beechwood forests A great way to take a rest between walks, is a trip to Holm and soak up more beautiful Midsomer countryside as Junction (Chinnor and Princes Risborough Steam Railway) you steam through the foothills of the Chilterns.
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