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The
headquarters of Oliver Cromwell: Leeds
Castle, Kent
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THE
MOONRAKER (1958) filming locations
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CREDITS
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Not
to be confused with the 1979 Bond movie, The
Moonraker is a colourful Civil War swashbuckling
suspenser.
The opening scene, with Cavalier Earl of Dawlish (George
Baker) meeting his fellow conspirators, is at Stonehenge
on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire.
There is a Bond connection. George
Baker, who appears as heraldry expert Sir Hilary
Bray in Bond movie
On Her Majesty's Secret Service, was once
in the frame to play 007.
The HQ of Puritan leader Oliver Cromwell (John
Le Mesurier) is Leeds
Castle, east of Maidstone, Kent,
most famous on screen as the home of the d'Ascoyne family
in the ealing classic Kind
Hearts and Coronets.
The Royalist house raided by Cromwellís troops is also
more famous from another film. Lacock
Abbey in Wiltshire,
is one of the Hogwarts locations in Harry
Potter and the Philosopherís Stone.
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The
Royalist house: Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire
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FILMING
LOCATIONS FOR THE MOONRAKER
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Leeds
Castle (tel: +44 (0) 1622 765400), four miles east
of Maidstone, Kent,
on the B2163 (rail: Bearsted)
Lacock
Abbey , Lacock, near Chippenham in Wiltshire,
was home to William Henry Fox Talbot, the pioneer of photography.
Talbot made the earliest known surviving photographic negative
on paper in 1835, a small photogenic drawing of the oriel
window of the south gallery of the Abbey, which now houses
the Fox
Talbot Museum
(rail: Chippenham)
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