Skip To Main Content

  • Stay
    • Accessible Accommodation
    • Bed & Breakfasts
    • Camping
    • Caravans, Campervans & Holiday Parks
    • Glamping, Lodges & Cabins
    • Holiday Cottages
    • Hostels & Bunkhouses
    • Hotels
      • Boutique Hotels
    • Pubs & Inns
    • Self-Catering
      • Serviced Apartments
    • Themed Accommodation
      • Accommodation with Hot Tub
      • Accommodation with Swimming Pool
      • Eco Friendly Accommodation
      • Family Friendly Accommodation
      • Group Friendly Accommodation
      • Hen & Stag Accommodation
      • Dog Friendly Accommodation
      • Stay on a Farm
  • What's On
  • Things To Do
    • Activities & Experiences
      • Adventure & Extreme
      • Canoeing, Kayaking & Watersports
      • Climbing
      • Cycling & Mountain Biking
      • Food & Drink Experiences
      • Shooting & Archery
      • Golf
      • Nature & Wildlife Experiences
      • Arts & Crafts
      • Walking & Hiking
    • Attractions
      • Beauty Spots & Visitor Sites
      • Castles & Ruins
      • Cinema & Theatre
      • History & Heritage
      • Museums & Galleries
      • Nature & Wildlife
    • Walking
      • 12 Easy Walks
      • Guided Tours
      • The Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail
      • The Wye Valley Walk
      • Good with the Dog
      • The Offa's Dyke Path
      • Accessible Walks
      • Other Walking Routes & Trails
    • Cycling
      • Cycle Trails
      • Family Cycling
      • Bike Hire
      • Mountain Biking & Downhill
      • Guided Cycling
    • Dog Friendly
    • Family Friendly
      • Young Families
      • With Tweens & Teens
    • Group Friendly
    • Rainy Days
    • Tours & Trails
      • Walking Tours & Trails
      • Cycling Tours & Trails
      • On the Water
      • Driving Routes
      • Film & TV Trail
      • Myths & Legends Trail
      • Market Towns Trail
      • Heritage Trails
      • 'Feel the Love' Romantic Trail
    • Shopping
      • Local Food & Drink
      • Farm Shops & Delis
      • Towns & Villages
      • Online Gift Guide
    • Wellbeing & Spa
    • Weddings
  • Food & Drink
    • Afternoon Tea
    • Cafes & Tea Rooms
    • Dog Friendly Places to Eat
    • Farm Shops & Delis
      • Shops Offering Home Delivery
    • Family Friendly Places to Eat
    • Local Produce
    • Picnic Sites
    • Food & Drink Experiences
    • Private Chefs & Group Catering
    • Pubs
      • Beer Gardens
    • Restaurants
    • Takeaways & Deliveries
    • Vegetarian & Vegan
  • Explore
    • Getting Here
    • Getting Around
    • Maps & Guides
      • Download Our Visitor Guide
    • Nature & Wildlife
      • Wildlife
      • Boar
      • Birds
      • Deer
      • Flora
      • Bluebells
      • Daffodils
      • Trees
      • Severn Bore
    • History & Heritage
      • Forest of Dean
      • Industrial Revolution
      • Freemining
      • The Wye Tour
      • The Fascinating Facts of the Dean Wye
      • Hidden Heritage
      • Agincourt
      • Myths & Legends
    • Famous People
      • Charles Rolls
      • David and Robert Mushet
      • The Man of Ross
    • Film & TV
      • Films
      • Harry Potter
      • Star Wars
      • King Arthur
      • TV Programmes
      • Doctor Who
      • Merlin
      • Atlantis
      • Sex Education
    • Tourist Information Centres
    • Towns and Villages
      • Forest of Dean
      • Wye Valley
      • Monmouthshire
      • Herefordshire
      • Coleford
      • Newent
      • Cinderford
      • Lydney
      • Usk
      • Ross-on-Wye
  • Inspiration
    • Adventure Breaks
    • Foodie Breaks
      • Abergavenny Excellence
      • Beer and Boutique
      • Newent Retreats
      • Rural Monmouthshire
      • Severn Valley Touring
      • The Heart of the Dean
      • Tintern Treats
      • Wye Valley Perfection
    • Escape the Everyday
      • Escape the Everyday at Home
    • Family Holidays
    • Rainy Day Ideas
    • Dark Skies
    • My Microgap
    • Dog Friendly Holidays
    • Seasons
      • Autumn: Leaf Peeping the Vibrant Colours
      • Winter: Cosy Escapes and Seasonal Delights
    • Romance
    • Viewpoints & Sights
  • Offers
  • Forest of Dean and Wye Valley
  • Print Logo
  • Stay

    Stay

  • Food & Drink

  • Things To Do

    Things To Do

  • Cymraeg

My Planner

Currently nothing planned yet in your itinerary. Have a browse through the site and begin to add things you're interested in.

List All My Saved Itineraries

Menu
  • Stay
    • Accessible Accommodation
    • Bed & Breakfasts
    • Camping
    • Caravans, Campervans & Holiday Parks
    • Glamping, Lodges & Cabins
    • Holiday Cottages
    • Hostels & Bunkhouses
    • Hotels
      • Boutique Hotels
    • Pubs & Inns
    • Self-Catering
      • Serviced Apartments
    • Themed Accommodation
      • Accommodation with Hot Tub
      • Accommodation with Swimming Pool
      • Eco Friendly Accommodation
      • Family Friendly Accommodation
      • Group Friendly Accommodation
      • Hen & Stag Accommodation
      • Dog Friendly Accommodation
      • Stay on a Farm
  • What's On
  • Things To Do
    • Activities & Experiences
      • Adventure & Extreme
      • Canoeing, Kayaking & Watersports
      • Climbing
      • Cycling & Mountain Biking
      • Food & Drink Experiences
      • Shooting & Archery
      • Golf
      • Nature & Wildlife Experiences
      • Arts & Crafts
      • Walking & Hiking
    • Attractions
      • Beauty Spots & Visitor Sites
      • Castles & Ruins
      • Cinema & Theatre
      • History & Heritage
      • Museums & Galleries
      • Nature & Wildlife
    • Walking
      • 12 Easy Walks
      • Guided Tours
      • The Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail
      • The Wye Valley Walk
      • Good with the Dog
      • The Offa's Dyke Path
      • Accessible Walks
      • Other Walking Routes & Trails
    • Cycling
      • Cycle Trails
      • Family Cycling
      • Bike Hire
      • Mountain Biking & Downhill
      • Guided Cycling
    • Dog Friendly
    • Family Friendly
      • Young Families
      • With Tweens & Teens
    • Group Friendly
    • Rainy Days
    • Tours & Trails
      • Walking Tours & Trails
      • Cycling Tours & Trails
      • On the Water
      • Driving Routes
      • Film & TV Trail
      • Myths & Legends Trail
      • Market Towns Trail
      • Heritage Trails
      • 'Feel the Love' Romantic Trail
    • Shopping
      • Local Food & Drink
      • Farm Shops & Delis
      • Towns & Villages
      • Online Gift Guide
    • Wellbeing & Spa
    • Weddings
  • Food & Drink
    • Afternoon Tea
    • Cafes & Tea Rooms
    • Dog Friendly Places to Eat
    • Farm Shops & Delis
      • Shops Offering Home Delivery
    • Family Friendly Places to Eat
    • Local Produce
    • Picnic Sites
    • Food & Drink Experiences
    • Private Chefs & Group Catering
    • Pubs
      • Beer Gardens
    • Restaurants
    • Takeaways & Deliveries
    • Vegetarian & Vegan
  • Explore
    • Getting Here
    • Getting Around
    • Maps & Guides
      • Download Our Visitor Guide
    • Nature & Wildlife
      • Wildlife
      • Boar
      • Birds
      • Deer
      • Flora
      • Bluebells
      • Daffodils
      • Trees
      • Severn Bore
    • History & Heritage
      • Forest of Dean
      • Industrial Revolution
      • Freemining
      • The Wye Tour
      • The Fascinating Facts of the Dean Wye
      • Hidden Heritage
      • Agincourt
      • Myths & Legends
    • Famous People
      • Charles Rolls
      • David and Robert Mushet
      • The Man of Ross
    • Film & TV
      • Films
      • Harry Potter
      • Star Wars
      • King Arthur
      • TV Programmes
      • Doctor Who
      • Merlin
      • Atlantis
      • Sex Education
    • Tourist Information Centres
    • Towns and Villages
      • Forest of Dean
      • Wye Valley
      • Monmouthshire
      • Herefordshire
      • Coleford
      • Newent
      • Cinderford
      • Lydney
      • Usk
      • Ross-on-Wye
  • Inspiration
    • Adventure Breaks
    • Foodie Breaks
      • Abergavenny Excellence
      • Beer and Boutique
      • Newent Retreats
      • Rural Monmouthshire
      • Severn Valley Touring
      • The Heart of the Dean
      • Tintern Treats
      • Wye Valley Perfection
    • Escape the Everyday
      • Escape the Everyday at Home
    • Family Holidays
    • Rainy Day Ideas
    • Dark Skies
    • My Microgap
    • Dog Friendly Holidays
    • Seasons
      • Autumn: Leaf Peeping the Vibrant Colours
      • Winter: Cosy Escapes and Seasonal Delights
    • Romance
    • Viewpoints & Sights
  • Offers
  1. Star Wars Filming Location Puzzlewood Forest of Dean England
  2. Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part 1 Forest of Dean
  3. The Secret Garden, Puzzlewood
  4. Jack the Giant Slayer Puzzlewood Location Ewan McGregor Bryan Singer Nichola Hoult
  5. King Arthur Charlie Hunnam Guy Ritchie
  6. The Secret Garden Location England Forest of Dean

You are here: Explore > Film & TV > Films

Films

Films which have been shot in the Forest of Dean and Wye Valley include:

The Secret Garden (2020)

Produced by: STXfilms
Starring: Colin Firth, Julie Walters

An adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved children’s classic. Viewers will be able to spot the enchanted woodland of Puzzlewood, which features as one of the key secret garden locations for the film. Release was initially planned for spring 2020 but was delayed due to COVID-19 until the autumn.

View the trailer which features Puzzlewood here:



Dream Horse (2020) 

Produced by: Film4 Productions
Starring: Toni Collette, Damian Lewis

Filmed at Chepstow Racecourse, the film tells the true story of the horse Dream Alliance, who was bred and owned by a group of friends and won the Welsh Grand National in 2009 at Chepstow Racecourse.



Aeronauts (2019) 

Produced by: Amazon Studios
Starring: Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne 

Filmed over Herefordshire, the rolling green hills serving as Victorian England. The balloon set off on the outskirts of Ross-on-Wye and was noticed by many due to its unusual shape when filming took place in September 2018.



King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)


Click here to find out more.



The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016)

Produced by: Roth Films
Starring: Emily Blunt, Chris Hemsworth, Jessica Chastain, Rob Brydon, Charlize Theron

This fantasy action movie is an adaptation based on the German fairytale ‘Snow White’. The Huntsman is a sequel to the 2012 blockbuster movie, Snow White and The Huntsman.

Key scenes were filmed in Puzzlewood during the summer of 2015 and the attraction features prominently in the trailer:



A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016)

Produced by: BBC Wales. Adapted for television by Russell T. Davies
Starring: Maxine Peake, Matt Lucas and John Hannah

A magical woodland full of mystical creatures? Only Puzzlewood could serve as the location for this modern re-telling of the classic fantasy drama by William Shakespeare. A star-studded cast and a Dr Who writer combine with euphoric effects and melodramatic storytelling.



Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)


Click here to find out more.



Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)

Produced by: New Line Cinema
Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Ewan McGregor, Warwick Davis

Directed by major Hollywood director Bryan Singer, Jack the Giant Slayer stars British actor Nicholas Hoult as Jack, a young farmhand who sets out to rescue Princess Isabelle from the giants who have stolen her away after he inadvertently opens a gateway to their world. If Jack can rescue her the conflict between giants and humans can be ended. It is based on the children’s story book ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’.

Created by Longcross Studios, the blockbuster film was set in amongst the magic of Puzzlewood. In the movie, Puzzlewood features as the forest of Gantua, the world in which the giants live at the top of the beanstalk, into which Jack travels to find Isabelle.

View the trailer which features Puzzlewood throughout including at the very beginning:



Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Part One (2011)

Click here to find out more.



Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Produced by: Paramount Pictures
Starring: Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Tommy Lee Jones

Set predominantly during World War II, the film tells the story of Steve Rogers, a sickly man from Brooklyn who is transformed into super-soldier Captain America, after taking a dose of a secret super serum, to aid in the war effort. Being a superhero comes at a price when his main objective is to fight crime. 

The Hollywood production was filmed in various places in the UK including an ex-Royal Naval Propellant Factory in Caerwent, Wales.



Born of Hope: The Ring of Barahir (2009)

Produced by: Actors at Work
Starring: Christopher Dane, Beth Aynsley, Kate Madison

A prequel to the Lord of the Rings the film is based on J.R.R. Tolkien's writings in the Appendices of the Trilogy. The story is set in the time before the War of the Ring and looks at the lives of the Dunedain.

Scenes were shot across the Forest of Dean including Puzzlewood and Clearwell Caves. Watch the trailer here.



Outlaw (2007)

Produced by: Pathe Productions
Starring: Danny Dyer, Sean Bean, Rupert Friend

Action movie Outlaw follows a group of people who feel betrayed by their government and police force and form an outlaw-posse in order to fight for what they believe is right.

The film is set in Britain in 2006. Sean Bean plays a soldier who returns home from duty to find that the country for which he has been fighting has become a war zone itself thanks to rampant crime. He joins forces with likeminded people to take on the evil that threatens to take over his home.

This action movie was filmed in many locations within the Forest of Dean and Wye Valley including Lydney, Cardiff, Bream, Coleford and Gloucester.



Arthur's Dyke (2001)

Produced by: Evolution Films
Starring: Pauline Quirke, Rebecca Lacey, Robert Daws

The film of Arthur’s Dyke follows the adventure of three men going on the longest walk of their lives as they attempt to recreate their conquest of the Offa’s Dyke Path 20 years earlier.

Chepstow provided a back drop to this comedy in 2001 as well as a number of businesses in the Forest of Dean and Wye Valley. Many locals also were able to take part in the filming as extras.



Just Visiting (2001)

Produced by: Hollywood Pictures
Starring: Jean Reno

In 2001, Hollywood remade a hugely popular French comedy blockbuster movie entitled Les Visiteurs. The American version was entitled Just Visiting. The story centres on a medieval knight who accidentally time travels to the 21st century thanks to the efforts of an incompetent wizard.

The medieval knight finds himself contending with 21st century life. However, before this turn of events we see the knight in the splendid surroundings of forests and castles and the film’s opening woodland scenes were filmed on location at Lydney Park Gardens.



Shadowlands (1993)

Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Produced by: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Julian Fellowes

The story of CS Lewis’s late blossoming love for American novelist Joy Gresham was filmed in the Wye Valley around Symonds Yat, Herefordshire.

Loading..

Explore Our Highlights

The Speech House Hotel | Country House Hotel near Coleford Forest of Dean
The Speech House Hotel
The Dairy at Gage Farm
The Dairy at Gage Farm
Forest Barn Holidays
Hamlet of 5 cottages for BIG Get-Togethers (sleeps 16 or 26)
KOREAN COOKERY at Harts Barn Cookery School
KOREAN COOKERY
Go Ape
Go Ape
Borderlands Outdoor
Borderlands Outdoor
Brambles - Luxury Romantic Bolthole for Two with Hot Tub
Brambles - Luxury Romantic Bolthole for Two with Hot Tub
Wye-Bikes - Bike hire in Coleford
Wye-Bikes
Biblins Youth Campsite
Biblins Youth Campsite
Adventure Caving in Clearwell
Adventure Caving in Clearwell
Ganarew Cottage
Ganarew Cottage
Saracens Head Inn
Saracens Head Inn
Greenacres Campsite
Greenacres Campsite
THAI COOKERY at Harts Barn Cookery School
Thai Cookery with Harts Barn Cookery School
The Roost Luxury Glamping
The Roost Luxury Glamping
Newent
Newent - a picturesque Forest town
Forest Holidays: Forest of Dean Cabins
Forest Holidays: Forest of Dean Cabins
A family in the Giant Maze.and Activities Maze
Elton Giant Mazes and Activities Maze
Cowshed Cottage
Cowshed Cottage
Ed Drewitt - naturalist, author and wildlife detective
Wildlife Safari
The Lake House
The Lake House
School Rooms - Luxury Converted Sunday School Rooms
School Rooms - Luxury Converted Sunday School Rooms
Oakwood Cottage
Oakwood Cottage
CHEESE, CHUTNEY & BREAD at Harts Barn Cookery School
CHEESE, CHUTNEY & BREAD
PrevPrev
  • 1The Speech House Hotel
  • 2The Dairy at Gage Farm
  • 3Hamlet of 5 cottages for BIG Get-Togethers (sleeps 16 or 26)
  • 4KOREAN COOKERY
  • 5Go Ape
  • 6Borderlands Outdoor
  • 7Brambles - Luxury Romantic Bolthole for Two with Hot Tub
  • 8Wye-Bikes
  • 9Biblins Youth Campsite
  • 10Adventure Caving in Clearwell
  • 11Ganarew Cottage
  • 12Saracens Head Inn
  • 13Greenacres Campsite
  • 14Thai Cookery with Harts Barn Cookery School
  • 15The Roost Luxury Glamping
  • 16Newent - a picturesque Forest town
  • 17Forest Holidays: Forest of Dean Cabins
  • 18Elton Giant Mazes and Activities Maze
  • 19Cowshed Cottage
  • 20Wildlife Safari
  • 21The Lake House
  • 22School Rooms - Luxury Converted Sunday School Rooms
  • 23Oakwood Cottage
  • 24CHEESE, CHUTNEY & BREAD
NextNext
E-newsletter Icon
Sign up for our e-newsletter
Be the first to hear about our exciting events, offers, inspiration and competitions by signing up.
MORE INFO
Brochure Icon
Download our brochure
Our 2020/21 visitor guide has everything you need for a visit plus a range of discount vouchers.
MORE INFO
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact Us
  • Site Map
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Cookies
  • Advertise With Us
  • Membership
  • Cymraeg
  • Video Credits
  • E-newsletter Sign Up
  • Download Our Visitor Guide
  • Member Login

Connect and share your #DeanWye experiences with us @VISITDEANWYE

©Visit Dean Wye 2021. All Rights Reserved.
*Visit Dean Wye is the trading name of Forest of Dean & Wye Valley Tourism Limited.

Made by Simpleview Logo

Don't Miss

  • Know Before You Go

    Know Before You Go

  • Visitor Guide 2020-2021 Cover

    Download Our Visitor Guide