Lights, camera, adventure? Britain’s most popular filming destinations are ‘the star of the show’
Britain launches a marketing campaign that invitations you to be the main star and discover its hottest filming areas.
Ever needed to step into your display to discover the setting of your favorite movie and TV characters?
Nicely, then you definitely’ll like to know extra about ‘Starring Nice Britain, a marketing campaign launching in January 2025 by Go to Britain.
Past the favored filming location of London, you’ll quickly uncover a myriad of locations which were used as filming areas in your favorite movies and streaming platform exhibits.
TV exhibits and blockbuster hits are more and more being filmed in areas nationwide, akin to fabulous cities like Tub, Oxford, and Manchester, and the beautiful countryside present in Wales – and so they’re crying out to be visited.
What’s extra, many of those iconic movie units and experiences are accessible to the general public!
“9 out of 10 guests coming to the UK are all for doing and seeing a movie and TV expertise,” says Patricia Yates, CEO of Go to Britain.
Uncover the highest filming areas in Britain
Varied areas of Nice Britain are selling their cinematic identification. “Starring Nice Britain is the place the vacation spot is the star of the present,” provides Yates.
‘Bridgerton’ followers will like to discover Tub the place you possibly can benefit from the Georgian structure backdrops akin to The Royal Crescent, take guided excursions of a number of the filming areas, and revel in themed experiences like a regency afternoon tea.
When you cherished final yr’s ‘Wonka’ movie starring Timothée Chalamet, Hugh Grant and Olivia Colman, then you possibly can head to Oxford’s prestigious faculties and historic landmarks the place a lot of the filming happened. Prime tip although: you may have to go additional north to Cadbury World in Birmingham for a correct chocolate manufacturing unit expertise.
For the ‘Harry Potter’ followers, there are many experiences to be discovered exterior of London, together with Northumberland’s spell-binding Alnwick Fortress, which featured as Hogwarts. You possibly can even recreate Harry’s first flying lesson because the historic landmark affords broomstick coaching!
Manchester is a hotspot should you’re a Marvel movie buff, because it was the stunning secret stand-in for New York within the ‘Captain America’ films.
And, should you’re a ‘Peaky Blinders’ fan, then you possibly can head to the open-air Black Nation Dwelling Museum, near Birmingham and wander the numerous industrial historic areas from the TV sequence.
When you go to the dramatic, rugged seashores of North Wales and know a factor or two about fantasy, then you definitely received’t be stunned to study that these had been the backdrops for ‘Home of the Dragon’, the prequel to ‘Recreation of Thrones’.
The truth is, Britain’s seashores are sometimes featured on the large display. East Anglia, one of many locations on Lonely Planet’s Finest in Journey 2025 listing, has a very photogenic stretch of sandy shoreline: you would possibly recognise Holkham Seaside from the 1998 movie, ‘Shakespeare in Love’.
Yates attributes the recognition of Britain’s growing movie to the rise of streaming platforms accessible to thousands and thousands. “Their development has made it extra common,” she says.
The movie trade as an inbound tourism driver
By the facility of movie, Go to Britain goals to draw a various vary of holiday makers and movie producers all through the mainland and its island to make sure the advantages are extra evenly throughout native communities.
Yates says guests are looking for out extra genuine experiences, consistent with the worldwide journey development of regenerative tourism. “It’s helpful to communities and enriches the excessive streets,” she says. “Cafés, eating places, and pubs are capable of keep open as a result of they entice tourism guests.”
Yates provides that regardless of the huge unfold of points of interest, Britain is a small nation with a complete infrastructure, particularly the trains, which might get you from one location to a different in just some hours. “From metropolis to countryside to shoreline, it is very easy to do all of it in Britain.”
Simply shy of 39 million individuals visited Britain in 2024. “We count on to see that rising,” Yates explains, including that tourism development post-COVID has principally been pushed by the American market, in addition to important markets in Asia additionally returning.
Count on Britain to be in your screens past 2025
One of many fundamental appeals in utilizing Britain as a filming location is the timelessness that its different locations all carry, because of their wealthy historical past and heritage.
“We will hold that story going for years moderately than months,” provides Yates.
You’ll see extra of Britain’s landmarks and spectacular landscapes on display within the subsequent few years: Go to Britain has agreements with all main movie studios, in addition to a partnership with the British Movie Fee that draws producers looking for new areas and units.
