Smithereens was filmed 'here' on the bridleway heading into Cozenden Woods.
Die Another Day prison camp was Long Valley, Aldershot - there was a Russian Tank parked there for quite a while afterwards.
Band of Brothers filmed some scenes at the top of Hungry Hill, Aldershot - they had to cgi-out Farnborough Airfield
Ridley Scott's Robin Hood was also filmed at Bourne Woods, Farnham
There was an Alice in Wonderland remake at Frensham Common a while back - there was some sort of battle scene there with fake dead horses
Davinci Code, ends at Rosslyn Chapel surrounded by local trailz
Talking of the Force Awakens, quite a few of us will have bashed around this.
@gravesendgrunt
Well, Bugger me.
I never knew a part of Full Metal was filmed there.
I was up there a a month or so back (hiking with o/h) but I'm not exactly sure if we were on the Mead Wall or not. I'll have to Google exactly where that part is.👍 Quite excited to tell her part was filmed there. She won't care but it won't stop me being excited telling her!
I think Upnor beach was used on tv once a long time back but can't remember what in?
Grain, the section near the naploeonic fort just off the beach/mud was used in a low budget post apocalyptic film only a few years back.
@martinhutch where is that?-I feel like I recognise it,but then again most reservoirs,lakes and lochs look similar.
The Force Awakens also did some shooting in the Forest of Dean
Puddletown forest, there’s even a trail named to mark one of the occasions.
https://strava.app.link/vMaPBXRmycb
where is that?-I feel like I recognise it,but then again most reservoirs,lakes and lochs look similar.
Catbells just out of shot...
Dragonstone from GoT. Shot around some flysch cliffs near Zumaia, have ridden road & mtb around there for the last 12 years or so, though I’ve never seen GoT.
Castle and flappy things superimposed!
@martinhutch where is that?
Borrowdale in the Lakes. They composited a load of north Lakes scenery together
Going 'Oi! That's Borrowdale' to my kids during the film wasn't appreciated much.
I always hum 'Cloudbusting' when I ride up Whitehorse Hill/Dragon Hill.
I never knew a part of Full Metal was filmed there.
I was up there a a month or so back (hiking with o/h) but I’m not exactly sure if we were on the Mead Wall or not.
Of all the tracks around there, I would imagine that you'd be on either the path that follows the shoreline going round to Egypt bay, or Cliffe Fort, or one that goes between the pools, which is where I think the Saxon Shore Way now goes? In which case, either way you'd have at least gone past the end of Mead Wall or the other side of the pool from it. Which is close enough in my book.
I think Upnor beach was used on tv once a long time back but can’t remember what in?
I can certainly picture a TV show at either the Ship or the Pier pub at Upnor, but can't think what it was. Most of the filming around there is on the other side of the river, in the dockyard. And that list is endless. James Bond, Call the Midwife, ...
As for the field with the pylons, it was a different one to the one I thought, but I'll tick that off anyway, since all those roads around Cobham, Camer etc. out to Brands Hatch were part of my old roadie training loops (as well as the entire Hoo peninsular)
Ridden in the jungle where Predator was filmed 👍
Puerto Vallarta, Pacific coast Mexico.
Crow Crag from Withnail & I is near Shap. Dropped in there on a ride a couple of years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleddale_Hall
As Limbers above, Icings Beacon gets used a lot. Saw it was in Killing We've where they have a big shoot out.
They've been up there again dimming an Amazon Prime series (Britannia I think). They left the props up over Halloween which made sure some interesting night rides...
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Mosquitos bombing Minley Manor during the film 'Mosquito Squadron'
‘Stay off the moors...’
From An American Werewolf in London.
Scene filmed in Black Mountains, above Hay on Wye between Hay Bluff and Lord Hereford’s Knob
They recently (2018) filmed a WW2 horror movie at Minley which proper put the willies up me when I came across the film set, just glad it wasn't a night ride...
‘Stay off the moors…’
From An American Werewolf in London.
Scene filmed in Black Mountains, above Hay on Wye between Hay Bluff and Lord Hereford’s Knob
But the pub interior is the Black Swan (aka Mucky Duck) at Ockham, near Guildford. Not really on a MTB route but a regular road ride location.
Marine Corps Air Station Miramar - AKA Top Gun. Rented a road bike when in San Diego for a conference and rode over 130 miles taking in the sights. That's an F22 coming into land.
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Ditsworthy Warren House, Dartmoor - Spielberg’s Warhorse. Just below Burrator reservoir was used in Paccino’s Revolution.
Greenham Common, Star Wars
https://www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/home/16673/More-footage-of--Greenham-s.html
Every Spring I run a week long bikepacking trip across Spain from the Med to Atlantic. The route runs through a village that was in an Orson Welles classic, along a disused railway line which passed for the Russian Steppe in Dr Zivago and through a valley that featured in one of the most famous gunfights in cinema history. This sequence
used a set which has recently been renovated with donations from all over the world. James Hetfield from Metallica was one of the biggest donors and Clint Eastwood spoke at the opening ceremony.
Las Bardenas (Navarra) - One of the bond films...
Almeria - For a few dollars more...
Greenham bunker are just behind the wire fence in the background.
Warton Crag nr Carnforth. Suddenly popped out from some trees and spotted a lovely house - somehow I remembered it from Sherlock Holmes 84-85. Leighton Hall.
No real idea why I knew it from somewhere, as we didn't have a telly back then. Took a fair bit of googling to work it out too (10 years ago!).
Also, the beach at Thurstaston in Wirral near Shore Cottage has been used a few times for bits and bobs. Think Ralph Fiennes was in the last one I remember seeing from there.
Crow Crag from Withnail & I is near Shap. Dropped in there on a ride a couple of years ago.
I tried to get Uncle Monty's cottage listed once for the landowners and escorted the Historic England assessor around it. There were tonnes of wine bottles and candles and even a visitor book hanging by string from one of the beams. It was rumoured the old range was nicked to order for one of the Gallagher brothers.
It's a nice ride out of Wet Sledale, over the Cockpit and down to Ullswater.
Also, Yew Cougar Scar above Arncliffe was used in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves when they were on horseback escaping from Guy of Gisbourne to the forest.
That's on the cheeky BW/FP from Malham tarn to Arncliffe which I'm sure many on here have done.
As a teen we went down to the local bingo hall as they'd got film crews everywhere. Picture the scene in a mining village upt north. Me n mi mates watched some pillocks dance around for a bit so we buggered off on our BMX's.
Turned out to be the Full Monty.
Cave Dale - Princess Bride; Forest Chapel / Bottom of the Oven (Macc Forest) - League of Gentleman Christmas Special; plus a few of the one's covered above.
Corrs brewery in Golden, Colorado; where the Hell of the West race in American Flyers starts from...
The greatest cycling movie of all time 😉
The race in the film was based on the Corrs Classic, an actual stage race sponsored by Corrs brewery.
Also, The Kessel Run in Fruita, the MTB trail mentioned in Star Wars 😉
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One we did earlier 🙂
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/a-bit-of-fun-name-the-iconic-film-from-the-location/
same but different.
Great thread!
Devil's Pulpit near Drymen - ridden along the edge of it for years until some wazzocks used it for the likes of Outlander and the great unwashed descended on it en masse.
Outlaw King - regularly ride past the castle and the field used for the battlefield as seen in the film. Also featured in Wild Country, a low budget Scottish werewolf flick.
The First Zulu War (Glasgow) as featured in The Meaning of Life was filmed beside the water board pipe track between Dumgoyne and Blanefield.
Shallow Grave - the scene where they dump the Vauxhall Manta into the quarry was filmed on Peaches Moor in Mugdock.
Woods beside the site of the old Canniesburn Hospital - location of Wilbur wants to kill himself scenes with Mads Mickelson.
Pretty much all the locations featured in That Sinking Feeling - the River Clyde where Police Scotland are now based, Maryhill where the scene in the derelict car was filmed, Park Circus and Kelvingrove Park - both featuring in early scenes in the film, Queens Park (rode through it yesterday on an urban ride in the rain and wind!) etc.
Comfort and Joy - rode past the site of where Bill Paterson talks into his old tape recorder by the old warehouses on the south side of the Clyde yesterday.
Jings. Glasgow really has been in a lot of films!
I have an article to do that will be based upon linking up the locations used in Local Hero. It will be a cross Scotland tour with a difference. Should be fun!
Cheers
Sanny
Darling buds of May. Often ride past the Larkins farm (Buss Farm) and through the village of Pluckley where many scenes were filmed. On a longer ride to the North Kent coast I sometimes ride past a farm where the purple lorry ended up.
I once did a MTB orienteering event out of Market Harborough and was told that one of the tracks we rode on went under the railway line where they filmed the "Great Train Robbery". Seems they were correct
https://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2011/03/robbery-1967-film-shot-near-market.html
Locally the film "American Warewolf in London" was filmed up the top of our valley. A more recent film "Resistance" was film (and set) in many local locations which we regularly ride through. 3 of my sheep dogs even had a role in the film and were credited at the end. The scene I was in as an extra ended up on the cutting room floor 🙁
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance_(2011_film)
Great thread this, I'm going to look up some more around here.
Oh, the Aeronauts was partly filmed in Chatham Dockyard (as someone said, used a lot), the scene in the huge "hanger" where they are assembling the balloon.
A church on Hoo peninsula was also used in an old b/w Dickensian adaptation too. I can't be asked to Google it.lol
A church on Hoo peninsula was also used in an old b/w Dickensian adaptation too. I can’t be asked to Google it.lol
Cooling Church for sure has been used, mainly cos it's one of the many actual places that appear in the books. I've been riding my bike across the strawberry fields behind it pretty much almost on to set (although that instance was a pretty minor adaptation).
Other churches very likely to have been used. Maybe even Cliffe given it's actually got space outside for all the OB vans and stuff.
One of the more recent beeb Dickens adaptations used the marshes near Faversham as a stand in for Cliffe/Higham marshes which would have been the ones most likely to be ones that Dickens would have referenced. But I've not been cycling there so won't tick that off.
I should add that I used to live in Fergus Drive that was used for exterior shots for Tom Conti's flat in the criminally underrated "Heavenly Pursuits". Great wee film.
Used to ride along bits of the Nene Valley Railway on my commute. For a while in the 80s and 90s it was the go to steam railway location. A couple of Bonds have filmed there, along with loads of the usual suspect TV shows (Casualty, The Bill, London's Burning, etc.).
I think the most recent one to look out for in the future near here is an episode of Pennyworth,Batman series (Gotham )spin off.I think they were filming with Paloma Faith inside the abandoned Chattenden Barracks earlier in the year. I regualalry ride through the woods areas but it's still kept secure in the bunkers/building areas ,where I presume they were.
Cooling Church
I'm sure many have ridden up or down Haworth main street or elsewhere around the village of Railway Children, Rita Sue and Bob and many other film /TV series fame.
The Eye of Sauron is Castle Hill, Huddersfield
