Past Productions

Bath & North East Somerset's locations have been popular with film-makers for the past 50 years and more. A list of 100 productions is available from the Film Office. Two early classics were Arnold Ridley's 'Ghost Train' shot at Camerton station in 1931 and the Ealing comedy, 'The Titfield Thunderbolt' at Monkton Combe and Freshford in 1952.

Recent Major Productions:
The Duchess (Pathe)
Bone Kickers (BBC)
Tess of the D'Ubervilles (BBC)
Echo Der Schuld (Ziegler Films)
Britain's Favourite View (ITV)
How we Built Britain (BBC)
Cheeni Kum (UK Film Productions - Bollywood)
Persuasion (Clerkenwell Films for ITV)
Dracula (BBC)
Beau Brummel (Flashback)
Vanity Fair (Focus Features)

Jane Austen's Bath
The Pump Rooms, The Assembly Rooms, and a variety of other famous Bath locations, which featured in her novels, were used when ITV remade Persuasion in 2007. They also appeared in the BBC'S productions of Northanger Abbey in 1987 and Persuasion in 1994.

Nearby Great Chalfield Manor was also used in ITV's 2007 adaptation of Persuasion. Dyrham Park also featured in this production as well as in BBC's "Sense and Sensibility" of the same year.