Real places, grouped for a visit
Call the Midwife filming locations
Every confirmed Call the Midwife filming location, what it played on screen and whether you can visit. This guide covers the BBC One drama from 2012 to series 15 in 2026, with its Christmas specials; the 2026 prequel Sisters in Arms is mentioned only where facts are confirmed.
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Chatham and Medway
The Historic Dockyard Chatham is the series' home from home: Poplar's streets, docks, maternity home and church are all inside its walls, with the public riverside alongside.
The Historic Dockyard Chatham
Poplar's streets, docks, maternity home and hospital
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Chatham Riverside
The midwives' cycle ride towards Nonnatus House
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Kent coast
Margate's Dreamland amusement park became Poplar's Christmas funfair for the two-part 2024 special.
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Buckinghamshire
Chiltern Open Air Museum near Chalfont St Peter filmed at its 1940s prefab, one of many rescued buildings on its site.
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Surrey
Surrey is home to the Longcross studio sets and two places listed by Visit Surrey: Royal Holloway's Founder's Building and Horsley Towers.
Royal Holloway Founder's Building
Filming location listed by Visit Surrey
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De Vere Horsley Estate (Horsley Towers)
Filming location listed by Visit Surrey
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West Sussex
The broad sands of West Wittering appear in the 2018 Christmas special, when the nuns visit their Mother House.
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Outer Hebrides
The 2019 Christmas special filmed at five places on Lewis and Harris, all named by Visit Outer Hebrides and all open to visitors.
Calanais Standing Stones
Where Mother Mildred and Sister Monica Joan visit the stones (2019 special)
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Gearrannan Blackhouse Village
Aunt Mina and Effie's island home (2019 special)
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Luskentyre Beach
Where the Turners talk about the islands (2019 special)
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St Clement's Church, Rodel
St Faelan's Church (2019 special)
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Eilean Glas Lighthouse
An island lighthouse landscape (2019 special)
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London
The original Nonnatus House was a former seminary in Mill Hill, now private homes. The real Poplar is a history visit, not a filming location.
Other places connected with the production
These are documented but either private, too broad for a useful visit or only briefly used, so they do not have their own pages.
- Longcross Studios, Surrey
Nonnatus House sets and constructed exteriors (later series and the 2026 prequel). A working film studio with no public tours. Neal Street Productions confirms it as the base for Call the Midwife: Sisters in Arms.
- Former Surrey County Hall, Kingston upon Thames
Filming location listed by Visit Surrey. The scenes filmed here are not described, and the building's use is changing. Its exterior can be seen from Penrhyn Road.
- Near Cape Town, South Africa
The Hope Clinic story in the 2016 Christmas special. The Royal Television Society reported filming near Cape Town, although the fictional clinic is in the Eastern Cape. No public site is named.
- Hong Kong
The order's Hong Kong house in the 2025 Christmas special. Cast interviews report filming in Hong Kong, but no specific public sites have been named.