Bucks has been named the second most filmed county in England – with film crews visiting the county to make more than 360 television shows and movies.
From the excitement at A-listers such as George Clooney and Matt Damon on the set of The Monuments Men in Marlow, multiple Bond films being shot at Pinewood Studios and the long-running filming of Midsomer Murders, Bucks is frequently featured on screen.
According to research compiled by GoCompare, Bucks is second in the top ten for England, with 367 films and TV shows made in the county, behind Kent which has had 401.
The most-filmed locations within Bucks are Black Park, which has had James Bond classic Octopussy, Willow and Snow White and the Huntsman filmed there.
West Wycombe Park is second, with the likes of Rough Cut, The Importance of Being Earnest and Downton Abbey filmed there.
West Wycombe House was deemed the perfect location for a ‘Russian’ military retreat in X-Men First Class. It is also the scene where Emma Frost (January Jones) is interrogated.
In third place is Waddesdon Manor – with film crews for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, The Queen and The Counselor descending on the historic stately home.
The 12,000 acre estate of Haxby Park in Downton Abbey also owes its impressive exterior to Waddesdon Manor.
Oxfordshire is fourth in the top ten for the entire country, with Blenheim Palace, Oxford University and Broad Street drawing in film crews for productions like Skyfall, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Berkshire was 10th in the list with tourist attractions Windsor Castle and Windsor Great Park the top filming locations followed by Theale, which had X-Men: First Class, Black Mirror and The Borrowers filmed there.
GoCompare used IMDb's "filming locations" section as their source for the locales and cleaned up the data by removing film studios.
The top 10:
- Kent – 401 films
- Bucks – 367 films
- Surrey – 340 films
- Oxfordshire – 325 films
- West Yorkshire – 321 films
- Hertfordshire – 298 films
- Greater Manchester – 259 films
- North Yorkshire – 238 films
- Hampshire – 175 films
- Berkshire – 169 films
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