Map of Midsomer County – History Edition
What if… Midsomer really were located in England? And specifically where it was filmed? Where in Midsomer’s history would that be? (Update as of August 2025)
This page explores precisely that thought experiment. On the virtual map, you will see a blue dot for one or more events in the history of Midsomer County whose filming location is known to me. The information about the location opens when you click or tap on a blue dot: the real location, the Midsomer location, and the event from the Midsomer story that happened ‘there.’
If you are generally interested in film locations – with and without history – then Sabine Schreiner’s 2025 newly published in revised and updated form Location Guide Midsomer Murders and Joan Street’s website is just right for you.
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| Real Location | Midsomer Location | Historical Event |
| Newington House, Newington, Oxfordshire | Home of Richard of Guillaume | After 1066: Sir Richard Guillaume of Normandy is in the retinue of William, Duke of Normandy and takes part in the Battle of Hastings. He kills many of the Saxons. (Lady Matilda William, wife of his direct descendant, later recounts: “His Sword of Guillaume, as his weapon became known, took many Anglo Saxon lives and came to symbolise everything that the English hated about the French.”) After the Battle of Hastings, which was victorious for him, King William I entrusted his faithful Sir Richard with “the land now known as Brighton and Hove”. In 1069, Sir Richard found St. Peter‘s in Brighton, dedicated to the Seaman and Fisherman. Later he moved to Midsomer Parva and was buried there in the church with his sword. (13×02: The Sword of Guillaume) Deep Dive: The Sword of Guillaume |
| Tyringham Hall Estate, Tyringham, Buckinghamshire | Chainey’s Field | 1086/87: Chainey’s Field in Midsomer Mallow is mentioned as common land in Domesday Book. (07×02: Bad Tidings) Deep Dive: Domesday in Midsomer Murders |
| Munden Estate, Watford, Hertfordshire | Cavendish Estate / Marwood Manor / Troughton’s House | 1914: In Broughton raises Montague Marwood, a big local landowner, an entire company from the village in this year, during World War 1. Numerous families lose their head of household and now have not enough to survive. (No battle is mentioned, but it is not unlikely that they also fought in the Battle of the Somme.) Some women form the Skimmington Society as a self-help group to work together, educate and raise money. (09×05: Four Funerals and a Wedding) Deep Dive: Deeds Not Words1960: On August 15, a fire breaks out at Marwood Manor in Broughton. Almost all the inhabitants of the house die: Richard Henry Marwood, Elizabeth Ann Marwood, Montagu Henry Marwood, Catherine Elizabeth Marwood, Henry Edward Marwood, Elizabeth Marwood, Frederick Hastings, Dorothy Sairfield, Harold Sairfield and the two children George Richard Marwood and Henry Marwood. Late 1960s and/or 1970s: Germaine Troughton from Lower Pampling is captain of the England Ladies Cricket Team. (19×03: Last Man Out) 1990: During a precipitate accident at Fletcher’s Cross, Matthew Draper is killed in an explosion at the local quarry. Owner Robert Cavendish doesn’t want to wait for the detonator to be secured after a misfire, because that would cost him a big deal. He sends Draper to check when the detonator does ignite. (02×03: Dead Man’s Eleven) |
| Nether Winchendon House, Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire | Monks Barton Priory | Between 1536 and 1541: Monks Barton Abbey and St Frideswide were dissolved. Monks Barton Abbey was resolved by force, because the monks probably refused to give it up. However, they are driven into flight by the royal soldiers and literally hunted down and slaughtered in the adjacent Monks Barton Wood. (11×07: Talking to the Dead, 12×04: The Glitch) Deep Dive: The Dissolution of the Monasteries in Midsomer Murders |
| Waverley Abbey, Waverley, Surrey | Monks Barton Abbey / St Frideswide | Before 43 BC: The Celts have a shrine at Midsomer Sanctae where St Frideswide Abbey is later built.
About 1300: Start of Frideswide pilgrimages in Midsomer County: Very many pilgrim groups use Pilgrims’ Ride at Midsomer Sanctae to make a pilgrimage to the Abbey of St Frideswide to ask the saint for blessings and help. (12×04: The Glitch) Between 1536 and 1541: Monks Barton Abbey and St Frideswide were dissolved. Monks Barton Abbey was resolved by force, because the monks probably refused to give it up. However, they are driven into flight by the royal soldiers and literally hunted down and slaughtered in the adjacent Monks Barton Wood. (11×07: Talking to the Dead, 12×04: The Glitch) |
| Manor House, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire | Inkpen’s Manor | Between 1536 and 1541: The Inkpens obtain a formerly clerical property in Midsomer Deverell, becomes “Inkpen Manor”. (04×01: Garden of Death) Deep Dive: The Dissolution of the Monasteries in Midsomer Murders |
| The Prebendel House, Thame, Oxfordshire | Causton Abbey | 1539: Brother Jozef is executed (boiled to death in beer) for poisoning Causton Abbey’s beer. (20×01: The Ghost of Causton Abbey) |
| Joyce Grove, Nettlebed, Oxfordshire | Fitzroy’s Estate | British Civil War (1642 and 1651): The Fitzroy family owning Bledlow Village is a Catholic family with, among other things, priest holes in the building to celebrate Catholic Mass in secret. (11×02: Blood Wedding) Deep Dive: Civil War, pt. 1 |
| Chenies Manor, Chenies, Buckinghamshire | Jonathan Lowrie’s House / Melmoth Hall | 1644: On 1 August, the Battle of Aspern Tallow took place during the Civil War. It ended at 3:30 pm with a Royalist defeat. Among them fought Royalist Jonathan Lowrie (1591-1644), a philanthropist, classical scholar and owner of the manor Aspern Hall. Parliamentarians pursue and chase him home after the battle, shooting him in his house. He is buried on the site, as was his wish. The family legend arises that he is not at peace and lives on as a ghost. (03×04: Beyond the Grave) Deep Dive: Civil War, pt. 11802: Sir Hugo Melmoth is murdered on 23rd June by residents of Midsomer Oaks. Just as Sir Hugo had some disagreeable people murdered under the guise of a pagan ceremony. (17×02: Murder by Magic) Read more about him in Henry Hogson & other local historic celebrities in Midsomer Murders |
| Knebworth House, Knebworth, Hertfordshire | Quitewell Hall | 1645: Geoffrey DeQuetteville (1605-1645) is a loyalist in the Civil War and dies at the Battle of Naseby by charging cannons. The Battle of Naseby is lost for the Royalists. (15×01: The Dark Rider) Deep Dive: Civil War, pt. 2 |
| A building in Turville, Buckinghamshire | Gemma Christie’s Teahouse | 1801: Jane Austen travels through Whitcombe Grange. (19×05: Death by Persuasion) Deep Dive: Jane Austen & Baroness Orczy in Midsomer County |
| Shotover Park, Oxfordshire | Whitcombe Grange Hall | 1801: Jane Austen travels through Whitcombe Grange. (19×05: Death by Persuasion) Deep Dive: Jane Austen & Baroness Orczy in Midsomer County |
| Railway, Haddenham, Buckinghamshire | Old Railway behind the Key’s Cottage | In Victorian time (1837-1901): One of the railways in Midsomer County runs close to the Keys’ cottage at Fletcher’s Cross, just beyond some trees. (08×01: Things That Go Bump in the Night) Deep Dive: Midsomer’s Old Railways |
| The Maltings, Amersham, Buckinghamshire | Plummer’s Factory (exterior) | 1851: Albert Plummer returns from India to Little Upton, not with the fortune he had hoped for, but with a recipe for an excellent relish. He had eaten it in India and managed to recreate it. This sauce became – with a few changes – Plummer’s relish. (Why he was in India is not mentioned. I suspect that he was only a merchant and not a soldier who took part in the Second Anglo-Sikh War 1848–1849.) (08×07: Sauce for the Goose) Deep Dive: Albert Plummer in India |
| Wilkin & Son, Tiptree, Essex | Plummer’s Factory (interior) | 1851: Albert Plummer returns from India to Little Upton, not with the fortune he had hoped for, but with a recipe for an excellent relish. He had eaten it in India and managed to recreate it. This sauce became – with a few changes – Plummer’s relish. (Why he was in India is not mentioned. I suspect that he was only a merchant and not a soldier who took part in the Second Anglo-Sikh War 1848–1849.) (08×07: Sauce for the Goose) Deep Dive: Albert Plummer in India |
| Foxwarren Park, Wisley, Surrey | Smythe-Websters’ estate | 1867: Author Ellis Bell (“The House of Satan”) is born out of wedlock in Lower Warden. His mother worked in the manor in Upper Warden and was seduced by the son of the house. The Smythe-Websters denied paternity but helped young Ellis Bell get a job as a teacher. (06×04: A Tale of Two Hamlets) |
| Fair Mile Hospital, Cholsey, Oxfordshire | St Fidelis | 1875: On 25 June, nineteen-year-old Caroline Maria Roberts, suffering from tuberculosis, commits suicide by throwing herself from the staircase at St. Fidelis Hospital in March Magna. “NOT DEAD BUT SLEEPTH” is written on her gravestone. (13×04: The Silent Land) Deep Dive: Not Dead But Sleepth |
| Chestnut Cottage, Warborough, Oxfordshire | Stannington’s House | 1893: Reverend Stannington from Bishopwood becomes World Chess Champion 1893/1894. He dies as reigning World Chess Champion. (15×05: The Sicilian Defence) Deep Dive: Sports History in Midsomer Murders, pt. 2: Other Sports |
| A large thatched cottage in Watlington, Oxfordshire | Ellis Bell Museum | 1897: Ellis Bell’s ‚The House of Satan’ is published for the first time. It is an ‚old-fashioned socialist novel‘. The title, The House of Satan, refers to the Smythe-Webster family. (06×04: A Tale of Two Hamlets) |
| Loseley House, Artington, Surrey | Midsomer Magna Manor / Morchard Manor | 1860: The famous duel between the British boxer Sayers and the US boxer Heenan takes place on the grounds of Morchard Manor in Midsomer Morchard. It ends in a hullabaloo. (13×06: The Noble Art) Deep Dive: Sports History in Midsomer Murders, pt. 1: Boxing1905: Just a rumour: The author Baroness Emma Orczy is a guest of Lord Fitzgibbon at Midsomer Magna Manor when she is writing her stage play (and later novel) “The Scarlet Pimpernel”. Lord Fitzgibbon was supposedly the model for her main character and hero, Sir Percy Blakeney. (10×07: They Seek Him Here) Deep Dive: Jane Austen & Baroness Orczy in Midsomer County |
| The Mill, Sonning, Oxfordshire | Empson Theatre | 1923: Sir Huntley Empson found the amateur theatre company Midsomer Mummers and had the mill in Brattlington converted into a stage for his productions. (22×05: For Death Prepare) Gilbert & Sullivan: Pirates of Penzance and Midsomer |
| Rumsey‘s Chocolaterie, Thame, Oxfordshire | Caspar Madrigal’s Photo Shop | 1930: The Annual Exhibition of the Luxton Deeping Photographic Society takes place for the first time. The Society was previously founded by Casper Madrigal. (10×06: Picture of Innocence) |
| UCL Observatory, Greater London, London | Stanton Observatory | 1936: Tom Stanton, a local landowner and keen amateur astronomer, has the Astrodome built in Midsomer Stanton. (15×03: Written in the Stars) |
| White Waltham Airfield, White Waltham, Berkshire | Finchmere Airfield | 1942: ATA pilot Ellie Wingate from Finchmere takes off in her plane despite a storm warning. She never returns – her friend Molly believes she committed suicide out of heartbreak. (16×04: The Flying Club) Deep Dive: ATA – Anything To Anywhere |
| RAF Benson, Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire | Old Airfield of Cooper’s Cross | 1944: Ralph Wood was a bomber fighter pilot at Cooper’s Cross and never returns from a mission in this year. (10×01: Dance with the Dead) |
| Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire | Great Auburn & Little Auburn | 1944: During the Second World War, the village of Little Auburn was turned into an army base. The place was forcibly evacuated – only for a short time, they said. The inhabitants founded Great Auburn not far from their village.
1962: A group of former residents of Little Auburn (now living in Great Auburn) occupy the village to protest against the army’s continued occupation. They remain for a few days before being arrested, fined and put in chains. Among them were Fred Messenger and Sylvia Lennard. 2016: 72 years after the residents were forced to leave Little Auburn and it was used as an army base, the village is now being returned to the family of the then landowner, Roderick Craven. (19×01: The Village That Rose from the Dead) |
| Adwell House, Adwell, Thame, Oxfordshire | Isobel Hewitt’s House | 1950s: Isobel Hewitt from Midsomer Malham is a racing driver and wins a prize at Silverstone. (06×01: A Talent for Life) Deep Dive: Sports History in Midsomer Murders, pt. 2: Other Sports |
| Royal Holloway, Egham, Surrey | Devington Hall | After WW2: Midsomer Parva’s public boys’ school, Devington Hall, has been hoarding numerous artefacts of immeasurable value from all over the world for decades. Members of the school’s elevated Pudding Club often became diplomats and were thus able to steal the exhibits and bring them to the school. This happened, for example, during the Vietnam War (1955-1975) or the war in Afghanistan (1979-1989). (05×04 Murder on St Malley’s Day) Deep Dive: Treasures & Raiders in Midsomer County |
| Mapledurham House, Mapledurham, Oxfordshire | Heldman Estate / Bingham Estate | In the Iron Age (about 800 BC): In Midsomer Barrow, a local ruler, the Fisher King, is murdered with a spear in his leg and a role model for the Fisher King from the later Arthurian legend and the so called “dolorous stroke”/„dolorous blow“. Midsomer’s Fisher King is buried in the land that later becomes part of the Heldman’s estate.
1970: On the estate of Roger Heldman, local archaeologist Paul Heartley-Reade and Dr James Lavery, an archaeologist from the Ashmolean Museum, find a Celtic tomb – the grave of Midsomer’s Fisher King. The landowner and multiple rapist Roger Heldman is then murdered in the grave. The Celtic artefacts are recovered and registered at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford with the site of Suffolk. Shortly thereafter, Paul Heartley-Reade faked his own death. (07×03: The Fisher King) 1914/1918: Frank Bingham sold cheap, inferior food to the Ministry of Defence during WW1 and did very well for himself. He set up a huge trust fund for his new fortune. A trust fund that will run out as soon as William and Mary Bingham die. (14×02 Dark Secrets) |
| Grey’s Court, Rotherfield Grey’s, Oxfordshire | Midsomer Priory | Before 1930: Foundation of Midsomer Priory in Midsomer Vertue. In 1930 Mother Jerome’s great aunt was prioress. (14×07: A Sacred Trust) |
| A farm in Stonor, Oxfordshire | Abbey Farm | c.1500: The Bartletts become farmers in Midsomer Worthy. (05×02: Worm in a Bud) |
| Dorney Court, Dorney, Buckinghamshire | Bantling Hall / Allenby House | C.1500: The Catholic Hartley family come into possession of Bantling Hall. (08×04: Bantling Boy)
1605: Cecil Hartley, 3rd Baron Bantling was famous Catholic and was involved in the Gunpowder Plot. (08×04: Bantling Boy) 1644: On 2 July, George, 4th Baron Bantling, is part of the King’s army at the Battle of Marston Moor. But he betrays his side and the King at the battle, which is ultimately lost. It is the first major victory for the Parliamentary Army and the decisive turning point in the Civil War. (08×04: Bantling Boy) War of Independence (1775-1783): Thomas, 4th Baron of Bantling, was born in England and enlisted in the English army. During the War of Independence, however, during the war, he becomes a defector and fought on the side of the English colonies in America. (08×04: Bantling Boy) 1982: Malcolm Frazer, Nicky Frazer, Jenny Frazer (birth name not known) and Jimmy Wells from the British secret service help refugees to get from East Berlin to West Berlin. Jimmy Wells, however, is betrayed by Nicky Frazer and arrested by the Stasi. Nicky Frazer marries Jenny, who was actually a couple with Jimmy. Later, Jenny Frazer and Jimmy Wells learn of the betrayal, noted in the Wolfman file. (12×03: Secrets and Spies) |
| Braziers College, Ipsden, Oxfordshire | Chetwood Estate | c.1500: The Chetwoods have been living in Chetwood Estate for some time, now the roof is leaking (and still is 500 years later). (05×01: Market for Murder) |
| St Mary the Virgin, Hurley, Berkshire | St Claire | End of the 12th century or later: On a wall in the crypt of the church in Midsomer St Claire, an unusual Domesday painting is created, which does not show the crossroads between salvation and damnation as usual, but only medieval methods of torture. (16×02: Let Us Prey) Deep Dive: Doom Paintings |
| Sapperton Canal Tunnel, Sapperton, Gloucestershire | Midsomer Canal | End of the 18th century: The ceiling collapses during canal construction work at Midsomer Worthy and buried eight workers. In order not to run out of time and go bankrupt, 38-year-old engineer John Haslett decides, in the interests of his investors, to leave the eight dead in situ and merely had a retaining wall put in. This allowed the excavation work to continue on the very next day. This was all forgotten by the time he received his knighthood. The newspaper “Midsomer Journal” accused John Haslett of putting his own interests before human lives and reported: „Local Canal in Tunnel Collapse. Eight men still missing. Yesterday afternoon at approximately 3.30 pm a collapsed in the Midsomer canal happened, devastating locals and fellow workers. It is believed workers are still missing and friends and family fear the worst. The engineer Sir John Haslett has called the search off believing the workers would all be dead due the size of the cane in. Angered locals are up in arms over the decision and have called for further searches. A service for the bereaved has hastily arranged in respect in respect conducted by the local vicar, angering friends and family further. [… That’s all you can read in the scene]“ (07×01: The Green Man)1801: On 2 May 1801 it is recorded in the minutes of the Midsomer Canal Company that £ 12 11 shilling 9 pence are paid to blacksmith Thomas Edwards „in discharge of his bill for iron work to the wheelbarrows, for the use of in the said navigation“. This entry is presumably related to the collapsed part of the Midsomer Canal at Midsomer Worthy, end of the 18th Century. (07×01: The Green Man) |
| Village Green of Crocker’s End, Oxfordshire | Village Green in Midsomer Mallow | In Anglo-Saxon time (5th-7th century): There was a Saxon burial ground where is now the village green of Midsomer Mallow. (03×03: Judgement Day) Deep Dive: The Fisher King in Midsomer County |
| Stanlake Park Wine Estate, Twyford, Berkshire | Midsomer Vinae winery | In Roman time (43-425): In Midsomer Vinae the Romans grow wine. (17×04: A Vintage Murder) Deep Dive: Roman Vineyards |
| Sydenham, Oxfordshire | Midsomer Abbas | 1370: In Midsomer Abbas, there are long frosts in the spring that stunt the year’s harvest and brought starvation to many residents. They get help from the neighbouring village “over the valley”, Midsomer Herne, who bring part of their apple harvest. (14×06: The Night of the Stag) Deep Dive: The Dantean Anomaly |
| Turville, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire | Midsomer Parva (07×06) | 17th century: There was an outbreak of swine fever in Midsomer Parva. The villagers tried to contain the epidemic with prayers, but were unsuccessful. Some women are able to nurse pigs back to health by using herbal remedies, but the women are tried for witchcraft and hanged from the old oak tree. The first of them is named Katherine Malpas. (07×06: The Straw Woman) Deep Dive: Witch-Hunting in Midsomer County |
| Mapledurham Watermill, Mapledurham, Oxfordshire | Mill in Lower Blissingham | 1821: The mill in Lower Blissingham was bought by the Larkton family. (23×03: A Grain of Truth). |
| St. Leonard’s Watlington, Oxfordshire | Well in front of the Church in Midsomer Wellow | 1860: In Midsomer Wellow, the well at the church is shut down after the body of vicar Jonathan Ebbrell is found in it. He was murdered by local bell ringers because he forced them to attend church services and had their beer barrel removed from their room. The bell ringers were not convicted, however, because the people of Midsomer Wellow formed a wall of silence. (05×03: Ring Out Your Dead) Deep Dive: The Bell Ringers from Midsomer Wellow |
| Watlington, Oxfordshire | Lower Warden (06×04) | 1643: From 14 March, the neighbouring villages of Upper Warden in the valley and Lower Warden on the hill start killing each other, on the occasion of the Civil War. (06×04: A Tale of Two Hamlets) |
| Lewknor, Oxfordshire | Upper Warden (06×04) | 1643: From 14 March, the neighbouring villages of Upper Warden in the valley and Lower Warden on the hill start killing each other, on the occasion of the Civil War. (06×04: A Tale of Two Hamlets) |
| St Mary’s, Woburn, Bedfordshire | St Cicely’s Church | 15th century (probably second half): In Midsomer County, a devout woman, Cicely Milson, is interrogated and tortured for three weeks by her tormentors. Her family flees to France to escape the torture. The family treasure, however, remained with Cicely. Cicely dies during the torture and is buried with her family hoard. She is later venerated as a martyr. (18×05: Sinners and Saints) Deep Dive: Treasures & Raiders in Midsomer County |
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First published on MidsomerMurdersHistory.org on 24 April 2024.
Updated on 27 August 2025.
Petra Tabarelli
Petra Tabarelli has studied history and has earned an international reputation as an expert on the history and development of football rules. But she is also a big fan of Midsomer Murders - and that's why this website about history and nostalgia in and around Midsomer exists. She was looking for a website like this, couldn't find it, so she madw it. For others who, like her, are looking for the website, and now can find it.
