Looking out for some well-known film locations Back to News

If you’re a keen movie-goer, you probably also like to keep a lookout for well-known film and television locations while on your travels. We’ve scoured our maps for some familiar places you might want to spot on our walking holiday routes.

In the moving final moments of Gladiator (the original, and we think the best…), Maximus walks through a beautiful landscape of rolling fields and cypress trees. This highly Instagrammable spot is just a couple of minutes from our path into Pienza in Southern Tuscany.

To be released this spring is a film adaptation of The Salt Path by Raynor Winn, the true story of a couple’s restorative walk on England’s South West Coast Path. Spot locations at Porlock Weir, Lynton and Heddon’s Mouth while walking our Coastal Exmoor route, and you can hike other sections of the Coast Path with On Foot in Cornwall and Dorset.

While in Dorset, we recommend stopping at Mapperton House as you pass by. Its beautiful stone west front and barns appeared as the farm of Bathsheba Everdene in an adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd, starring Carey Mulligan. It has a pretty garden in the valley below and woodland walks to explore, if you have time.

In Castellabate it’s impossible to ignore that this was the setting for the comedy Benvenuti al Sud – very well known in Italy, but perhaps less so elsewhere. The unspoilt little town in Cilento National Park charmed a prejudiced northerner who was forced to move there unwillingly, only to find himself loving the gentle pace of life and warmth of the people in the south. We think you will too!

Walking the green hills of England’s Peak District, you’ll be reminded of the 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley. It was from the crags of Stanage Edge (pictured, top) that she gazed out over the Hope Valley, and you can visit the stately Chatsworth House that so bewitched Elizabeth Bennet in its guise as Mr Darcy’s Pemberley.

And finally, a little more action! James Bond fans might recognise the French town of Menton from a classic chase in Never Say Never Again. Bond (Sean Connery in this case) races on a motorbike through the narrow streets in pursuit of his quarry. Your pace will be a little slower as you complete your Alpes Maritimes walk in this elegant town.