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Wallingford & Thames

Wallingford Market Place

Wallingford Market Place was used as Causton town centre in Midsomer Murders. Customers welcome.

Wallingford Market Place with the town hall and surrounding buildings
Photo: Christopher Hilton / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
On screen as
Causton town centre
Access
Customers welcome
Time needed
45–90 minutes
Nearest place
Wallingford, Oxfordshire

On screen

Wallingford Market Place is one of the most useful places to begin exploring the real Causton. The town council’s visitor website identifies Wallingford as the original Causton location and recalls Barnaby walking around the square and crossing Wallingford Bridge. That gives the market place a stronger connection than simply resembling an English television town.

It also gives a visitor a clear centre from which to follow the published filming leaflet. Look at the square as a complete civic space, with its surrounding façades and routes into the adjoining streets, rather than expecting every shot to have been taken from one position.

Visiting Wallingford Market Place

Download the council’s Midsomer leaflet before arrival or visit the Town Information Centre for its walking and driving trail material. Start with an unhurried look around the Market Place, then follow the route to the Corn Exchange and the other central stops it identifies. The council’s broader visitor site also suggests independent shops, antique stores, Castle Gardens and the traces of the town’s Saxon past.

Choose one of those interests as a second layer to the walk, particularly if your party includes someone less concerned with television. Business interiors and museum visits require their own opening checks.

Check the filming source

Plan your visit

Build this stop into the day.

The Corn Exchange is the immediate companion, combining a documented Causton Playhouse connection with a current theatre and cinema programme. A riverside walk or Castle Gardens can then broaden the visit without another drive. Warborough and Dorchester-on-Thames are options for a separate village extension within the council’s wider Midsomer countryside routes.

Treat driving time in the published trails as movement time, not the total length of your day: stops, food and walking require their own allowance.

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Wallingford & Thames

Nearby filming locations

Pale façade of Wallingford Corn Exchange with arched entrancesAttraction · View from the road or pathWallingford Corn ExchangeOn screen as Causton PlayhouseSee the locationWarborough village green with a path and trees around its edgeVillage · Customers welcomeWarboroughOn screen as Badger’s Drift and other Midsomer villagesSee the locationThatched Six Bells pub facing Warborough village greenHistoric house · Customers welcomeThe Six BellsOn screen as The Black Swan in Badger’s DriftSee the locationHistoric shopfronts lining Dorchester-on-Thames High StreetVillage · Customers welcomeDorchester-on-ThamesOn screen as Multiple Midsomer villagesSee the location

Sources

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