CREDITS BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY, 2001 dir: Sharon Maguire Renee Zellweger Colin Firth Hugh Grant Jim Broadbent

Royal Courts of Justice, the Strand, is the extraordinary burst of mock-Gothicism where Bridget bungles her assignment to cover the extradition case for TV show Sit Up Britain. She pops over the road to buy a packet of fags at BK News, 212 Strand at at Essex Street.

The Royal Courts were featured in Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage (though a massive photograpic blow-up was used for the backdrop, and it's where the vintage Darracq is first seen in classic 50s comedy Genevieve.

Bridgetís parentsí home, where she first meets Mark Darcy during a Christmas break, is in Snowshill, off the A46 about 12 miles northeast of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.T he scene was filmed in June with loads of fake snow. The church here is St Barnabas.

Daniel and Bridget enjoy a date at Cantina del Ponte, 36 Shad Thames, on the Buler's Wharf quayside . They have a clinch beneath the walkways of Shad Thames itself (also seen in The French Lieutenantís Woman as well as David Lynch's The Elephant Man). Daniel'ís flat is a wharf conversion on nearby Clink Street, SW1.

Daniel takes Bridget on a mini-break to the Stoke Park Club, Park Road, Stoke Poges in Buckinghamshire. Yes, this is the golf club seen in Goldfinger used as the interior of the ëHamburgí hotel in Tomorrow Never Dies and featured in Layer Cake.

Darcy heads off to 'New York' – but that's not 'JFK'. The ultra-modern terminal at which he arrives is Stansted Airport in Essex.

A quick sprint, a new diary and the big clinch in the snow: Cornhill, in the City

Incurable romantics will, no doubt, want to recreate that wonderful moment in the snow when Bridget not only gets a new diary but also gets the man of her dreams, the impossibly sensitive Mark Darcy. You might reasonably assume that since (a) Bridget is in her tiny pants, (b) it's snowing and (c) it takes about three seconds' screen time to get there, the finale is around the corner from The Globe. Well, it isn't. The spot is Royal Exchange Buildings, Cornhill, across the road from the Bank of England. That's some sprint.

The quaintly period shops here also became Nazir's boutique, 'Le Beau Chapeau' in the northern-set comedy East Is East as well as the flower shop where Clarissa Dalloway (Vanessa Redgrave) briefly glimpses the doomed Septimus Warren Smith (Rupert Graves) in the film of Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway (the novel which provides the framework for Oscar-winner The Hours).

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