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Film and TV locations in Britain

Cinemas and screen-industry sites in our data, plus a hand-picked themed trip.

Facts last checked 25 Oct 2026. Britlens is independent: see our editorial policy.

Watershed, Harbourside & Millennium Square
Watershed, BristolPhoto: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0
BBC Scotland, Pacific Quay, Finnieston, Clydeside & the Riverside
BBC Scotland, Pacific Quay, GlasgowPhoto: Batchelor at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0
Ultimate Picture Palace, High Street, Magdalen and East Oxford
Ultimate Picture Palace, OxfordPhoto: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 4.0

Places from the lists below; each photo links to the guide page that lists it.

Where to start

Reasoned from our data counts

These three destinations have the most matching places in our guides. That shows where our coverage is deepest for this interest, not an official ranking.

  • Bristol

    3 matching places.

    Most in: Harbourside & Millennium Square (1), Stokes Croft, St Pauls & Montpelier (1).

  • London

    3 matching places.

    Most in: Battersea & Nine Elms (1), Brixton (1).

  • Glasgow

    2 matching places.

    Most in: Finnieston, Clydeside & the Riverside (1), Merchant City & City Centre (1).

For a hand-picked route, see the themed trip Film and TV locations (4 stops in Elsewhere in Britain, London). More: all themed trips.

Map

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20 places. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (opens in new tab).

All 20 places, by destination

Our place data does not tag filming locations, so the list below is cinemas and screen venues only. Treat the themed trip as the starting point for places used on screen, and check each place's own site for what was filmed there.

Bristol3places

London3places

Glasgow2places

Oxford2places

Birmingham1place

Brighton & Hove1place

Devon1place

Leeds1place

Lindisfarne (Holy Island)1place

Manchester1place

Nottingham1place

Sheffield1place

Shrewsbury1place

The Scottish Highlands1place

How we matched these places

We search the type label and name of every sight in our guides for this interest. Places we have not listed, or that our data labels differently, will be missing. Data checked 25 Oct 2026. Hearts save a place to My trip.

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Sources

Official pages read on 25 Oct 2026. Rules, prices and opening times change: check the source before you rely on it. Counts and rankings on this page come from Britlens place data and are not official figures.

No external source is cited on this page; every figure is computed from our own data.