Brad Pitt to Tom Hardy, and Harry Potter to Southcliffe: test your Kent film and TV knowledge
00:01, 03 January 2017
1. Film hunk Tom Hardy filmed at Leybourne Lakes, near West Malling, for a Channel 4 drama in 2007. Can you name it?
2. Zombies took over this town in 2012, for a Hollywood blockbuster starring an A-lister. Which town was it?
3. This historic house has featured as the perfect period backdrop for countless costume dramas, from The Princess Bride (1987). Last year it featured in two TV dramas, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Richard III, and Ashford-born Oscar winner Mark Rylance, for which he won a Bafta. Can you name them?
4. Knole Park in Sevenoaks featured in two Beatles short films in 1967. Can you name them?
5. The Historic Dockyard Chatham is in demand as a film set, with films including Les Miserables (2013) and Sherlock Holmes being filmed there, as well as the BBC’s Call the Midwife. But which film, shot around Margate, featured a painter who made the town his home?
6. Leeds Castle has been home to many a film set over the years. Can you name the film this scene is taken from, which dates from 1949?
7. The earliest filming in Canterbury fittingly dates back to the Michael Powell feature film version of Chaucer’s classic novel, A Canterbury Tale (1944), which features the city itself, the cathedral and which village just outside?
8. Channel 4 drama Southcliffe (2012) was filmed in and around one Kent town, and at one of the KM Group’s own newsrooms in Wraik Hill. Which town was it?
9. English Heritage’s Dover Castle is one of Kent’s most popular filming locations and saw filming for a Marvel Studios adventure in 2015. Can you name the film?
10. The Dartford Crossing briefly features in which of the Harry Potter films?
11. This country house near Tunbridge Wells was the scene for the film adaptation of which Jane Austen novel in 2005?
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Kent County Council’s Film Office launched an interactive map this year with details of all the feature films and TV dramas filmed in the county back to 1940 – more than 200 productions at almost 300 locations. To see it, visit kentfilmoffice.co.uk/kent-movie-map/moviemap-live-2
