Dorset is a beautiful county with breathtaking scenery, picturesque unspoilt villages and charming historic towns; so it’s not surprising that it’s been used as the backdrop to many film and TV productions.
There are too many to list here so we have chosen an eclectic mix of just a few. How many of them have you watched, and did you realise Dorset was featured in them?
- Lyme Regis was the location for The French Lieutenant’s Woman starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons;
- Durdle Door makes an appearance Nanny Mcphee;
- West Bay appears in the BBC TV series Harbour Lights starring Nick Berry;
- The 1960’s film The Damned, starring Oliver Reed and Shirley Ann Field, was shot around Weymouth and Portland;
- Lulworth Cove stars in Pirates of the Caribbean
- ITV’s Inspector Wexford series, starring George Baker, has scenes set in Dorset;
- Dorset was the location for the 1967 film Far From The Madding Crowd, based on Thomas Hardy’s book, and starring Julie Christie, Terence Stamp and Peter Finch;
- Much of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage series was filmed in a former gate keeper’s cottage at Slape Manor near Bridport;
- Claysmore School in Iwerne Minster was the location for the famous chandelier episode in Only Fools and Horses;
- A disused quarry at Moreton was used to film scenes for Tenko;
- And the Dorset countryside appears in the 2010 film Tamara Drewe.
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