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I’ve already mentioned that I’m a fan of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, but what I haven’t mentioned is that she also wrote a number of books involving the character of Miss Marple, despite having been played by numerous actresses over the years the adaptations produced by ITV are the ones where the filming locations are much easier to identify.
Across 23 episodes starring Geraldine McEwan and Julia Mckenzie there are a number of locations that are lovely places to visit.
Places to Visit if You’re a Fan of Agatha Christie’s Marple
Dorney Court
Featured in “The Body in the Library” and “The Sittaford Mystery”
Widely regarded as one of England’s finest Tudor Manor Houses, where successive generations of our family are privileged to have lived for nearly 500 years. Dorney Court stands in landscaped gardens and overlooks mature parkland and ancient yew hedges while flocks of sheep graze the surrounding meadows.
Knebworth House
Featured in “4:50 From Paddington” and “The Secret of Chimneys” and “Greenshaw’s Folly”
The romantic exterior of Knebworth House with its turrets, domes and gargoyles silhouetted against the sky does little to prepare the visitor for what to expect inside. The House has stood for many years longer than the Victorian decoration suggests; the stucco hides from view a red brick house dating back to the Tudor times.
Highclere Castle
Featured in “4:50 From Paddington”
Highclere Castle is one of England’s most beautiful Victorian Castles set amidst 1,000 acres of spectacular parkland. The Carnarvon family has lived at Highclere since 1679, and the current Castle stands on the site of an earlier house, which in turn was built on the foundations of the medieval palace owned by the Bishops of Winchester for some 800 years.
Nether Winchendon House
Featured in “Ordeal By Innocence”
Nether Winchendon House is listed Grade I. The house and its grounds comprise about seven acres of garden with fine and rare trees and shrubs. The house is lived in by the present owner, Robert Spencer Bernard (pronounced Spencer Barnard), his wife Georgianna and their family. The house contains fine family portraits of the owner’s forbears since the beginning of the 17th century and good English furniture spanning the 17th to 19th Centuries. Since 1956 it has been open to the public who are welcomed into a home in which the family live. It is a founder member of the Historic Houses Association.
Englefield House
Featured in “A Pocket Full of Rye”
At the heart of the Estate is Englefield House, an imposing mansion, with a range of richly furnished staterooms. Sitting in 12 acres of formal gardens with woodlands and a walled kitchen garden, it is enclosed by a deer park, offering far-reaching views down to our lake and across the Berkshire countryside.
Hatfield House
Featured in “The Secret of Chimneys” and “The Blue Geranium” and “Greenshaw’s Folly”
Traces of the Tudor heritage remain at Hatfield House, including the famous ‘Rainbow Portrait’ of Elizabeth I. However, it’s the ornate early seventeenth-century decor that dominates – heavy wooden and marble staircases and rooms, sumptuous dining rooms and the kind of library a bookworm could hide away in for years.
The Homewood
Featured in “Endless Night”
This extraordinary early 20th-century country villa is a masterpiece of Modernist design, in the midst of a picturesque woodland garden not far from Esher in Surrey. It was designed by the architect Patrick Gwynne for his family – his father, mother, sister and himself – and completed in the early summer of 1938. Gwynne lived in the house for the rest of his life, continuing to keep the building fashionably up-to-date until his death in 2003. His friend, the architect Sir Denys Lasdun, observed that The Homewood was ‘the great love of Patrick’s life’.
Where would you like to visit?
Let me know in the comments.
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