With the UK's tourism and hospitality sectors ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, the county of Buckinghamshire has turned to an unlikely source of hope: its connections with a popular murder mystery programme. Why?Although the heart of the fictional crime drama is set in south Oxfordshire, a significant portion of the filming takes place in neighbouring Buckinghamshire.
"Lots of people will have watched Midsomer Murders in the past year and there is an appetite for locals to get out and for people to come from further afield when it's safe."Once in somewhere like Marlow you may just forget about the show and be attracted by all the town has to offer." Few if any have taken it quite as far as Joan Street who has been applying her own detective skills to track down the filming locations of Midsomer Murders for more than 20 years.for the show and details more than 120 sites she has successfully identified.
Her email inbox is often jammed with fellow enthusiasts wanting advice or information about the show.Visit Buckinghamshire said trails guide people to Covid-safe places such as the the Royal OakBecky Salisbury owns the Royal Oak in Bovingdon Green, just outside Marlow. The hamlet's dairymen's cottages have featured in several episodes of the show.
"Business is tough at the best of times and it's been mega-tough in the last year so anything like this that helps it is a good thing and I'm very grateful to be part of it. The episode saw the winner of the fictional Thassington classical music festival strangled with a violin string and a valuable Stradivarius on loan to him stolen."We get people coming in and asking about the episode and what happened when they were filming," he says.
Once a great show now destroyed by the over the top unrealistic diverse cast!
so dull
BBC = Defund Nana and her crap friends 😁