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    English counties of film

    West Yorkshire - Rita, Sue and Bob Too

    Greater Manchester - Spring and Port Wine

    Merseyside - Shirley Valentine

    Cambridgeshire - Chariots of Fire

    Norfolk - Alpha Papa

    Cornwall - Straw Dogs

    Nottinghamshire - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

    South Yorkshire - The Full Monty

    North Yorkshire - Calendar Girls

    #2
    English counties of film

    I can't think of a film you'd describe as Cumbrian, but the Lake District features heavily in:

    Withnail and I
    Miss Potter
    28 Days Later

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      #3
      English counties of film

      Evariste Euler Gauss wrote: West Yorkshire - Rita, Sue and Bob Too

      Greater Manchester - Spring and Port Wine

      Merseyside - Shirley Valentine

      Cambridgeshire - Chariots of Fire

      Norfolk - Alpha Papa

      Cornwall - Straw Dogs

      Nottinghamshire - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

      South Yorkshire - The Full Monty

      North Yorkshire - Calendar Girls
      Counties?

      These are administritive areas, or former administritive areas.

      "Against Modern Britain"…

      (PS. "Greater Manchester" is "A Taste of Honey", as enni fule know.)

      [strike]"Tyne and Wear"[/strike] Northumberland and County Durham - Get Carter

      Derbyshire - Charlie Bubbles

      Lancashire - Room at the Top

      Westmorland - Withnail and I

      Warwickshire - Take me High

      "That London" - The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

      Kent - Great Expectations

      Devon (or Gloucestershire?) - Treasure Island

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        #4
        English counties of film

        Toby Gymshorts wrote:

        I can't think of a film you'd describe as Cumbrian
        Swallows and Amazons

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          #5
          English counties of film

          Argh, of course.

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            #6
            English counties of film

            Dorset - A French Lieutenant's Woman

            Devon - War Horse (apart from the bits in Flanders)

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              #7
              English counties of film

              Surrey - The Time Machine. Could have been War of the Worlds had a film been made that based the story where HG Wells had actually placed it

              Essex - Essex Boys, I suppose

              Sussex - Brighton Rock

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                #8
                English counties of film

                City and County of Bristol - Shank

                Avon - Er ... ummm ... the pilot film for "Shoestring" (if indeed there ever was such a film)

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                  #9
                  English counties of film

                  I'm struggling to think of a film set in Lincolnshire. Mill On The Floss? The novel was set in Lincolnshire, but I've no idea if the 1937 movie was actually filmed there because wikipedia, damn it, doesn't have this information.

                  Tons of Dickensian-era scenes are filmed at the top of Steep Hill in Lincoln. You can't move up there half the year for ponies, traps, top hats and camera crews.

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                    #10
                    English counties of film

                    Sussex - Quadrophenia, shurely

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                      #11
                      English counties of film

                      Staffordshire - The Card

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                        #12
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                        Guy Potger wrote: Devon (or Gloucestershire?) - Treasure Island
                        They leave from Bristol which is now City & County but for a short period was in Avon and as far as I'm aware in the past has been (only in part) in Somerset and fully in Gloucestershire. I would say parts of true modern Bristol are today now also in South Glos and North Somerset.

                        I always love watching the very brief Disneyfication of the Somerset side of the Avon Gorge as the Hispaniola leaves Bristol. As it happens, I don't think Treasure Island can really be claimed by any particular place. Maybe the Westcountry as a whole.

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                          #13
                          English counties of film

                          Hertfordshire — The World's End

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                            #14
                            English counties of film

                            That reminds me, isn't Hot Fuzz Gloucestershire?.

                            I know it was filmed (in part) in Wells/Somerset but Nick Frost's character wears a Bristol Rovers top. Less likely seen in that part of Somerset.

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                              #15
                              English counties of film

                              I would say parts of true modern Bristol are today now also in South Glos and North Somerset.

                              Indeed. My father lives in Kingswood, which is now part of South Gloucestershire - and a stone's throw (to the west) from the birthplace of too many people's favourite Bristolian, Ian Holloway.

                              Blaise Hamlet, on the other hand - a place so agricultural that the pub landlord would refuse to serve The Wurzels because "we don't like townies round these parts" - is part of Bristol.

                              It ain't right, it just ain't right.

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                                #16
                                English counties of film

                                Kent - A Canterbury tale.

                                Most of the outside bits of Dad's Army including the film were shot in Norfolk though meant to portray Kent.
                                I've always thought Walmington-on-Sea fits better as a Bexhill/Hastings hybrid with the front & pier often featured in plots, the reference to the A21 in the theme song & Frank's Hasting Utd scarf.
                                So Dad's Army for Norfolk & East Sussex then.

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                                  #17
                                  English counties of film

                                  I don't know how big they are in Britain, but films of Rosamunde Pilcher's books are incredibly popular in Germany.

                                  There are over 100 of them, shot primarily by the state channel ZDF in Cornwall, Devon and Dorset.

                                  And I'm sure, without ever having seen any of them, that they're all complete crap - simply because most ZDF-made films I've seen are complete crap.

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                                    #18
                                    English counties of film

                                    Excalibur was SET in Devon and Cornwall, to the extent of referencing places (the Tamar, Tinatagel) during the film itself.

                                    But was filmed in some bit of Southern Ireland, I think.

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                                      #19
                                      English counties of film

                                      Lincolnshire - The Dam Busters.

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                                        #20
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                                        Guy Potger wrote: Kent - Great Expectations
                                        That's a good call. My uncle Tug was an extra in that, in the scenes they filmed on the Medway. He'd just been demobbed and it was a nice earner for the summer. Originally he was to supposed have a starring role shouting something from the crow's nest, but unfortunately he got left on the cutting room floor.

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                                          #21
                                          English counties of film

                                          Tyne and Wear - Stormy Monday

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                                            #22
                                            English counties of film

                                            Boris Carpark wrote:
                                            Most of the outside bits of Dad's Army including the film were shot in Norfolk though meant to portray Kent.
                                            I've always thought Walmington-on-Sea fits better as a Bexhill/Hastings hybrid with the front & pier often featured in plots, the reference to the A21 in the theme song & Frank's Hasting Utd scarf.
                                            So Dad's Army for Norfolk & East Sussex then.
                                            I thought the film version was shot in Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks.

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                                              #23
                                              English counties of film

                                              Lancashire - Room at the Top
                                              Really? Yorkshire, surely? I've seen sources saying that John Braine had Bradford in mind when he wrote of "Warley". Also the Wiki page on the 1959 film indicates a Yorkshire setting.

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                                                #24
                                                English counties of film

                                                I think that I would have gone for Kes for Yorkshire and A Taste Of Honey for Lancs.

                                                How about Wish You Were Here amongst the Sussex contenders.

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                                                  #25
                                                  English counties of film

                                                  Boris Carpark wrote: Kent - A Canterbury tale.

                                                  Most of the outside bits of Dad's Army including the film were shot in Norfolk though meant to portray Kent.
                                                  I've always thought Walmington-on-Sea fits better as a Bexhill/Hastings hybrid with the front & pier often featured in plots, the reference to the A21 in the theme song & Frank's Hasting Utd scarf.
                                                  So Dad's Army for Norfolk & East Sussex then.
                                                  Some of the Walmington-on-Sea bits were filmed in Eastbourne,I think..

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