Filming locations near Leicester

217 places within 100 km of the city centre where films and television series were shot — every one on the interactive map, with photographs, distances and what was filmed there. The closest is Leicester Airport, 8 km south-east; the most filmed is Ely Cathedral with 6 recorded productions.

Everything recorded against Leicester itself — rather than at a named spot near it — is on its own page.

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Within 100 km · 217 80 towns & cities · 73 landmarks, buildings & interiors · 37 castles, palaces & great houses · 15 landscapes, coasts & wilderness Closest · Leicester Airport · 8 km Most famous · Birmingham

Within 25 km of Leicester

1. 🏛 Leicester Airport · 8 km south-east · Landmarks & buildings

   1 production, per Wikipedia — Ramji Londonwaley. Small aerodrome in Stoughton, Leicestershire, England

2. 🛣 M1 motorway · 11 km north-west · Streets & squares

   1 production, per Wikipedia — 28 Days Later. Motorway in central England connecting London and Leeds

3. 🛣 Great Central Railway · 15 km north · Streets & squares

   1 production, per Wikipedia — The Crown. Heritage railway based in Loughborough, England, UK

4. 🏙 Hinckley · 19 km south-west · Towns & cities

   1 production, per Wikipedia — The Great Escape. Town in Leicestershire, England, UK

5. 🏙 Twycross · 25 km west · Towns & cities

   1 production, per Wikipedia — The Dark Crystal. Village in Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicestershire, England, UK

Day trips: 25 to 60 km

1. 🏙 Ashby-de-la-Zouch · 26 km north-west · Towns & cities

   1 production, per Wikipedia — Ivanhoe. Town in Leicestershire, England

2. 🏛 Donington Park · 27 km north-west · Landmarks & buildings

   1 production — Rush. Race track

3. 🏙 Long Eaton · 31 km north · Towns & cities

   1 production, per Wikipedia — This Is England. Town and unparished area in Erewash district, Derbyshire, England, UK

4. 🏛 Wilsthorpe Business and Enterprise College · 32 km north · Landmarks & buildings

   1 production, per Wikipedia — This Is England. Secondary comprehensive school, in Long Eaton, Derbyshire

5. 🏙 Teigh · 34 km east · Towns & cities

   1 production, per Wikipedia — Pride and Prejudice. Village in Rutland, England, UK

6. 🏙 The Meadows · 34 km north · Towns & cities

   1 production, per Wikipedia — This Is England. Area of Nottingham, England

7. 🏙 Lenton · 35 km north · Towns & cities

   1 production, per Wikipedia — This Is England. Area in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK

8. 🏰 Wollaton Hall · 35 km north · Castles & palaces

   1 production, per Wikipedia — The Dark Knight Rises. Country house museum in Nottingham, England

9. 🏙 Nottingham · 35 km north · Towns & cities

   4 productions, per Wikipedia — The Dark Knight Rises, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. City in Nottinghamshire, England, UK

10. 🏙 Stoke Aldermoor · 35 km south-west · Towns & cities

    1 production, per Wikipedia — The Italian Job. Suburb in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK

11. 🏙 Coventry · 36 km south-west · Towns & cities

    1 production, per Wikipedia — The Italian Job. City in the West Midlands in England, UK

12. 🏙 The Charterhouse · 36 km south-west · Towns & cities

    1 production — Downton Abbey. Building on London Road, Coventry, in the West Midlands of England

+ 40 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.

Further out: 60 to 100 km

1. 🏙 Middleton · 60 km north-west · Towns & cities

   1 production, per Wikipedia — The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England

2. 🏰 Hardwick Hall · 60 km north · Castles & palaces

   1 production, per Wikipedia — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1. Elizabethan country house in Derbyshire, England, UK

3. 🏙 Peterborough · 61 km east · Towns & cities

   4 productions, per Wikipedia — GoldenEye, Hugo. Cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England

4. 🏰 Chartley Castle · 62 km north-west · Castles & palaces

   1 production, per Wikipedia — Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Castle in the UK

5. 🏛 Silverstone Circuit · 63 km south · Landmarks & buildings

   2 productions, per Wikipedia — Thunderball, F1. Motor racing circuit on the Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire border, UK

6. 🏞 Sherwood Forest · 63 km north · Landscapes & nature

   1 production, per Wikipedia — The Adventures of Robin Hood. Royal forest

7. 🏙 Shirebrook · 64 km north · Towns & cities

   1 production, per Wikipedia — The Full Monty. Town and civil parish in the Bolsover District of Derbyshire, England

8. 🏰 Tyringham Hall · 64 km south-east · Castles & palaces

   1 production, per Wikipedia — Arabesque. Grade I listed English country house in Tyringham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

9. 🛣 A5 road · 64 km west · Streets & squares

   1 production, per Wikipedia — If..... Major road in England and Wales

10. 🏙 Ettington · 64 km south-west · Towns & cities

    1 production, per Wikipedia — The Haunting. Village in Warwickshire, England, UK

11. 🏞 Dovedale · 65 km north-west · Landscapes & nature

    2 productions, per Wikipedia — Robin Hood, The Other Boleyn Girl. Valley on the boundary of Derbyshire and Staffordshire, in England

12. 🏛 Black Country Living Museum · 65 km west · Landmarks & buildings

    1 production, per Wikipedia — Peaky Blinders. Open-air museum of manufacturing history in Dudley, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

+ 148 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.

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