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ITV's American detective drama series Grantchester, based on James Runcie's short stories, is one of the most stunning series on Masterpiece on PBS. Watching the show is like stepping into a charming English town and basking in the glory of the past.
Currently in its tenth season, the show was renewed for its eleventh and final season. The series follows Detective Inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green), who forges an unlikely partnership with the Anglican vicar, as he solves murder mysteries in the titular Cambridgeshire village in the 1950s.
The cosy detective series is set in a beautiful town, quite unlike the various crimes that take place there. While the stories are fictional, James Runcie brought the real-life village to life in his stories.
Surprisingly, the titular village of the show exists in real life, and the majority of the show is shot in and around Grantchester, a town two miles south of Cambridge.
Here are all the filming locations for Grantchester.
Where is Grantchester filmed? Exploring the filming locations of the detective drama
1) Exploring the titular village in the detective series
Staying true to its name, much of the ITV drama series is shot in Grantchester, a village and civil parish on the River Cam or Granta in South Cambridgeshire, England, and one hour away from London. This small town, which has beautifully preserved all its former glory since the ninth century, is the perfect filming location for this detective series.
Every episode of the show features the village's quaint country homes, thatched-roof cottages, scenic streets, local pubs, and the historical Orchard Tea Garden in all their glory. According to the UK Mail, this humble town in England also boasts the highest number of Nobel Prize winners, likely because of its proximity to the University of Cambridge. The village has a total of 300 houses and a Church.
2) Church of St. Andrew and St. Mary
After the titular town, the Churchyard, and home to various Anglican vicars, is one of the most frequently featured filming locations in Grantchester. The filming for the Church takes place in the town's only Church, St. Andrew and St. Mary, which dates back to the 14th century and features a tower, nave, and chancel.
Following the success of this ITV series, the entrance of this Church boasts a life-sized cut-out of lead actors Tom Brittney and Robson Greene.
While the interiors are shot inside the actual Church, the exterior shots are filmed at the Grantchester vicarage, which lies just adjacent to St. Andrew and St. Mary. As the series’ locations manager, David Halstead, told PBS:
“The interior, anything past the door, is shot in an old building on a farm site in a little village called Lemsford...''
3) The Green Man pub
The quaint town had four pubs in total, namely The Green Man, The Blue Ball Inn, The Rupert Brooke, and The Red Lion (name-dropped in the show). While each of these pubs is rooted in history, filming only took place in The Green Man pub. However, the pub was shut after the COVID pandemic, and the crew had to search for alternatives.
Since the rest of the pubs are quite modern in their interiors, the crew used several filming locations like The Eagle in Cambridge, The Windmill in Chipperfield, and an empty pub in Hammersmith. Scenes featuring beer and murder investigations are now mainly shot in the deserted pub in Hammersmith, West London.
4) Cambridge
It would be criminal not to feature the historic and beautiful city of Cambridge (which is just a few miles away from the titular town), and the series filmed many scenes in the busy streets.
The crew set up on the King’s College campus, and the city became the perfect filming location for Grantchester as it didn't require much dressing up for the 1950s. It was like stepping into one of the storybook places, as the city has retained much of its old English charm.
As Halstead told PBS, they used many locations in and around the city for the show:
“I mean there are great streets in Cambridge that you can make feel like the 1950s in minutes. We use King’s Parade quite regularly. Also, Trinity Lane and Senate House Passage.”
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