The list includes a children’s favourite and a cinema blockbuster
06:00, 18 Apr 2026Updated 10:50, 18 Apr 2026
A scene from The Dark Knight Rises at Wollaton Hall
Nottingham’s in the spotlight once again after TV cameras were spotted in the city filming the latest season of BBC drama Sherwood. Film crews were shooting in locations including Old Market Square and Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem for the third series.
Murder, mining and long-running feuds have featured in series one and two, where the action was filmed in former pit villages of Annesley, Newstead, and Rainworth and Sherwood Forest.
David Morrissey, Lesley Manville and Lorraine Ashbourne are among the returning cast. This time viewers will meet a new family, the Woods, with a storyline focussing on a 40-year-old cold case involving human remains found in a reservoir.
Nottingham and the wider county both have a strong track record as a destination for film and TV shoots.
As tourism organisation Visit Nottinghamshire once said: “A city of legends, stories, and stunning backdrops, Nottingham has long been a hidden star of the screen.
“From the historic streets of the Lace Market to the eerie caves beneath the city, the exquisite Elizabethan mansions, and the luscious greenery, Nottingham is a filmmaker’s fantasy to explore and play with. Whether it’s action, drama, fantasy, or romance, the city has done it all.”
Actor David Morrissey in BBC drama Sherwood (Image: BBC)
Here’s a round-up of some of the TV series and movies filmed in and around Nottingham:The Dark Knight Rises
Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council signed a charter to encourage film-makers to choose the area for location filming in 2017
It doesn’t get bigger than Wollaton Hall doubling up as Batman’s gaff on the big screen. The Elizabethan property was chosen as the set of Wayne Manor in the 2012 film starring Christian Bale, Gary Oldman and Anne Hathaway.
Visit Nottinghamshire, the county’s tourism body, hailed it a “cinematic triumph” as the blockbuster gave Wollaton Hall its moment in the spotlight.
Boon
Filming of Boon in Independent Street, Radford(Image: Don Mettam )
Stacks of Nottingham locations featured in the popular TV series of the 1980s and 90s starring Michael Elphick and Neil Morrissey.
The site of the Boon Investigations office was in Standard Hill, near Nottingham Castle, a cycle race was filmed in Old Market Square, while Trinity Square car park was used for a kidnapping scene.
The Star pub in Beeston, which featured as The Drum pub in series four to seven, has a mural on an exterior wall of Elphick and Morrissey on a motorbike, celebrating its starring role.
Without Sin
Crews film ITV drama Without Sin in Forest Road West (Image: Kate Moseley )
Nottingham gal Vicky McClure flew the flag for her home city in the 2022 ITV drama Without Sin.
The dark psychological thriller, exploring the complex relationship between a grieving mother and the man convicted of killing her daughter, was shot across multiple locations including Forest Fields, Old Market Square, Notts County Football Club and Victoria Centre Market.
This Is England
Woody (left) and Pukey by the underpass, which features in the film This is England
Shane Meadows’ gritty film, set in an unidentified Midlands town in the 1980s, came out in 2007. It was widely filmed across Nottingham, in St Ann’s, Lenton, and The Meadows.
Key scenes included Shaun’s house in Limmen Gardens, St Ann’s, Radford subway and abandoned houses at the former RAF Newton base.
School fight scenes were shot over the Derbyshire border in Long Eaton at Wilsthorpe School.
Last Train to
Things get a little strange when nightclub owner Tony Towers, played by Michael Sheen, gets aboard the 3.17 train from London to Nottingham for Christmas.
The 2021 festive film was filmed in and around Nottingham at locations including the railway station. Remember the scene of him wearing a Trent FM sweatshirt?
Bronson
Tom Hardy starred as the notorious criminal Charles Bronson in the 2008 film Bronson
Tom Hardy wasn’t quite the superstar he is now when he came to Nottinghamshire to film Bronson. Locations included Welbeck Abbey, Worksop town centre, and Sherwood for the 2008 movie following the life of the man deemed Britain’s most violent criminal.
Hardy appeared as Michael Peterson, aka his ‘fighting name’ Charles Bronson. A house in Water Meadows, Worksop, was used for his mother’s home and the scene where he committed a jewellery shop robbery was in Bridge Street.
Welbeck Abbey’s underground ballroom was used to film Bronson’s stay at Rampton psychiatric hospital — the huge subterranean room is bare apart from a few chairs and a television but look up and you’ll see the ornate ceiling and decorative cornice.
Prison scenes were also filmed in one of the hidden underground tunnels that were built by the eccentric 5th Duke of Portland. The eerie tunnels were also used in the 2010 BBC Four film Macbeth starring Sir Patrick Stewart.
Bronson’s spell in Broadmoor was filmed at Stanford Hall, in Leicestershire.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Shirley Anne Field and Albert Finney at the Savoy Cinema in Lenton (Image: Woodfall/BFI)
The 1960 film, based on the novel of Alan Sillitoe, featured Albert Finney, a young machinist at the Raleigh bicycle factory in Nottingham, who spends his weekends drinking, partying and having an affair with a married woman.
At the same time, he starts a relationship with Doreen, played by Shirley Anne Field. Scenes were filmed by the lions in Old Market Square, the Savoy Cinema in Derby Road, Lenton, the Raleigh factory, and the former White Horse Inn, in Ilkeston Road, which is now a shisha and dessert lounge.
The film was named as the 14th greatest British film of all time by the British Film Institute in 1999.
Control
Sam Riley starred as Ian Curtis in the Joy Division biopic
The 2007 Joy Division biopic starred Sam Riley as Ian Curtis, the troubled lead singer of the band whose hits included the raw and emotional Love Will Tear Us Apart.
The film, shot partly at the city’s Carlton Studios, gives an insight into Curtis’ despair behind the acclaim, including his battle with epilepsy and the collapse of his marriage.
The Stretford-born singer took his own life aged just 23, on the eve of Joy Division’s first American tour in 1980.
Scenes were shot at the Boulevard pub in Radford, Bestwood Social Club, Nottingham High School, and the Marcus Garvey Centre in Lenton.
Woof!
Faye Jackson played Carrie, pictured with Tinka who starred as ‘Jim the Dog’ in the final series
The initial series were filmed around Moseley in Birmingham but when production shifted to Nottingham, scenes were shot in West Bridgford and Keyworth in the 1990s..
Wilford Meadows Comprehensive in Wilford (later demolished) was used as the location for the school featured in the popular children’s programme about the adventures of a boy who turns into a dog.
The change in location was explained by Eric’s family moving to a bigger house because his mother was pregnant with twins.
EastEnders stars Anita Dobson and Leslie Grantham appeared in some of the episodes as did Stephen Fry.