Featuring elaborate plots and beautiful settings, Midsomer Murders has been hit with viewers since 1997. But where is it filmed and which are its best-known locations?

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Published: Tuesday, 16 April 2024 at 15:16 PM

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As crime dramas go you can always rely on ITV’s popular murder mystery series Midsomer Murders to provide entertaining, bizarre and particularly gruesome murders. The imagination of the script writers shows no bounds.

However it has also become just as famous for its beautiful scenery as its memorable murders.

Where is Midsomer Murders filmed?

The majority of Midsomer Murders is usually filmed in rural Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire

Oxfordshire’s historic town of Wallingford doubles up as the fictional Causton – Midsomer County’s main town. Viewers will be all too familiar with the market square.

However not all Causton scenes are filmed here.

If Causton Crown Court is needed the old County Hall in Kingston-upon-Thames is used, while the Grade II listed Corn Exchange in Wallingford has stepped in many times as Causton’s local theatre.

If a scene is needed at Causton railway station Beaconsfield railway station steps up, while Watlington Library doubles up as Causton Library.

And Causton’s Police Station? Scenes there are filmed at Ramslade House, the former RAF Staff College, in Bracknell

In short Causton is a mix up of a variety of locations from a few different counties.

Fancy a beer? The picturesque fictional pub Black Swan in Badger’s Drift, where the characters usually end up enjoying a drink, is filmed at The Six Bells in Waborough, Oxfordshire.

The village of Little Missenden – famously the home of author Roald Dahl – has appeared in 13 episodes, including doubling up as Badger’s Drift in the very first episode.

Remember the model village episode where a victim was laid out like Gulliver in Lilliput? This was filmed at Bekonscot Model Village in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.