This much-loved detective series, in its 23^rd season at the time of writing, starring originally John Nettles (Bergerac), Jane Wymark (Poldark) and then Neil Dudgeon (Son of Rambow and Messiah mini-series) has featured locations in Amersham in at least ten feature-length episodes.

*Due to different edits of productions the time code listed may not match exactly the version you are viewing

‘The Killings at Badgers Drift’ (Series 1, Episode 1) – 1998

Julian Glover (Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade, For Your Eyes Only), Emily Mortimer (Mary Poppins Returns, Lars and the Real Girl), a young Jessica Hynes (Spaced, Twenty Twelve)

37mins 0secs – Flint Barn Court, home of Amersham Town Council, the location for Rainbird & Co. funeral directors

 

‘Death of a Hollow Man’ (Series 1, Episode 3) – 1998

Featuring Janine Divitski (Madness of King George, Worst Week of My Life)

28mins 28secs – Amersham Old Town High Street

33mins 57secs – Amersham Old Town High Street

1hr 24mins 19secs – side of Market Hall & red telephone box (no longer there)

 

‘Death in Disguise’ (Series 1, episode 5) – 1998

Featuring a young Stephen Moyer (True Blood)

8mins 35secs – Amersham Old Town High Street with Market Hall in background (90secs scene)

22mins 38secs – Amersham Old Town High Street, starting not far from The Eagle pub (seen in background) coming out of no.80.

 

‘Dead Man’s Eleven’ (Series 2, episode 3) – 1999

Robert Hardy (All Creatures Great & Small, Harry Potter Films, Sense & Sensibility), Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, The Crown) Toby Jones (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Detectorists, The Hunger Games)

29mins 11secs – scene inside Amersham Town Council offices, doubling as the interior design offices of character Stephen Cavendish

31mins 08secs – exterior of Amersham Town Council, Flint Barn Court, doubling as the interior design offices of character Stephen Cavendish

 

‘Blue Herrings’ (Series 3, Episode 2) – 2000

Starring Nigel Davenport (A Man for All Seasons, Howards’ Way, Chariots of Fire)

6mins 16secs – Amersham Old Town, The Broadway, with Market Hall in the background

21mins 44secs – Inside of shop with Amersham Old Town, The Broadway, visible through the windows

30mins 0secs – Characters Barnaby and Troy cross the road of Old Amersham High Street

 

‘Who killed Cock Robin’ (Series 4, Episode 4) – 2001

Larry Lamb (Eastenders, Gavin & Stacey, Buster)

1hr 6mins 35secs – Amersham Old Town High Street outside Kings Arms pub

1hr 15mins 33secs – Outside Kings Arms again and continues to also reveal Market Hall

(Episode also features Red Lion pub in nearby Little Missenden as ‘White Swan’)

 

‘Sauce for the Goose’ (Series 8, Episode 7) – 2005

Starring Annette Crosbie (One Foot in the Grave, Calendar Girls) and James Fleet (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Sense and Sensibility)

14secs – Exterior of The Maltings in Amersham Old Town as ‘Plummer & Son’

23secs – Amersham Old Town High Street (going past no.82) with The Swan pub just visible in background. Character goes into no.80 as ‘Little Upton Antiques’.

3mins 54sec – exterior and inside grounds of The Maltings as Plummer & Sons

16mins 17secs – exterior of The Maltings

16mins 54secs – inside grounds of maltings looking out to road Pondwicks and junction of School Lane

25mins 58secs – inside grounds of The Maltings

28mins 55secs – inside grounds of The Maltings looking out to road (Pondwicks)

40mins 13secs – inside The Maltings looking out Pondwicks exit

46mins 00secs – inside grounds of The Maltings

46mins 28secs – Old Amersham High Street with Kings Arms Hotel just visible on right and Market Hall in distance & switches to location of antiques shop

1hr16mins27secs – gates of The Maltings at night

 

‘A Sacred Trust (Series 14, Episode 7) – 2011

Neil Dudgeon as DCI John Burnaby

Featuring Cliff Parisi (Eastenders, Kavanagh QC) and Emma Davies (Emmerdale)

28mins 54secs – car drives under Amersham by-pass and into Amersham Hospital, dropping off Barnaby at the rear of the Hospital.

1hr 24mins 26secs – Shot of car going under Amersham by-pass (A413) next to, but unseen, Amersham Hospital

 

‘The Killings of Copenhagen’ (Series 16, Episode 5, 100^th episode) – 2014

Featuring Sanjeev Bhaskar (The Kumars at No.42, Yesterday, Unforgotten)

10mins 14secs – exterior and in the grounds of the The Maltings (as Calders, who make biscuits) – entrance closest to Barn Meadow

13mins 41secs – in the grounds of The Maltings

32mins 24secs – exterior of The Maltings and inside grounds

35mins 57secs – grounds of The Maltings

1hr 18mins 45secs – outside of The Maltings

1hr 24mins 31secs – Barnaby rushes out of The Maltings

 

‘Last Man Out’ (Series 19, Episode 3) – 2017

Featuring John Bird (Bremner, Bird and Fortune, Absolute Power)

10mins 26secs – exterior of High and Over (as Elliot Luthando’s House) a Grade II modernist building in Amersham, front of house and inside

22mins 50 secs – inside High and Over

43mins 02 secs – looking into high level of High and Over

51mins 03 secs – Hervines Park in Amersham on the Hill

52mins 54 – outside High and Over at the front and inside

1hr 05mins 28secs – outside rear of High and Over

1hr 13mins 37secs – pathway going towards Hervines Park playground (in the background)

 

The Telegraph explores Amersham’s settings for Midsomer Murders filming in its article Midsomer Murders: A very English setting

Amersham Museum and Midsomer Murders and More group offer guided tours which take visitors to filming locations around Amersham area, in a circular five-mile walk which includes a short detour in the meadow alongside the River Misbourne before returning to the station via High and Over.