CREDITS FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL, 1994 dir: Mike Newell Hugh Grant Andie MacDowell Simon Callow Kristin Scott Thomas John Hannah Rowan Atkinson

“Dear Lord, forgive me for what I am about to say in this magnificent place of worship. Bugger, bugger, bugger, bugger, bugger, bugger!”

Although it seems to wander all around the British isles, from Somerset to Scotland, this lightweight romantic comedy which turned out to be the most successful British film of all time (until the Sheffield unemployed started dropping their trousers) was filmed entirely in London and the Home Counties.

You can find the London flat of Charles (Hugh Grant) at 22 Highbury Terrace, on the northwest corner of Highbury Fields at the junction of Highbury Terrace Mews, N5.

Wedding No. 1 (Angus and Laura, at ‘St John’s Church, Stoke Clandon, Somerset’) is held at St Michael’s Church in the village of Betchworth, a couple of miles to the west of Reigate, Surrey (rail: Betchworth, closed Sundays).

Four Weddings and a Funeral: Wedding No.1 in ‘Somerset’: St Michael's Church, Betchworth, Surrey

The reception, with the sheep, is Goldington’s, a private home set in 52 acres of rolling Hertfordshire countryside. You can see the Georgian mansion just off New Road, Church End between Chorleywood and the village of Sarratt, north from the A404, Hertfordshire (rail: Chorleywood).

Four Weddings and a Funeral: Reception No.1: Goldington's, Church End, Hertfordshire

The black and white Tudor exterior of ‘The Lucky Boatman’, where Charles and Carrie (Andie MacDowell) first get it together after the reception, is the half-timbered Kings Arms, 30 High Street, Amersham (the northernmost terminus of the Metropolitan line) in Buckinghamshire. A the time of filming it was only a bar, but it has since closed and is scheduled to reopen as a hotel. You can see the pub also in the 1963 Miss Marple mystery Murder at the Gallop.

Four Weddings and a Funeral: The 'Jolly Boatman' exterior: The King's Arms, Amersham

The interior is the Crown Hotel, a few doors along, at number 16, where youíll find the very four-poster in the hotel’s Queen Elizabeth I honeymoon suite (though it’s always been booked well in advance since the release of the film).

Four Weddings and a Funeral; Rattling the four-poster: The Crown Hotel, Amersham

Wedding No. 2 (Bernard and Lydia at the Catholic ‘St Mary of the Fields, Cripplegate, EC2’) was filmed in the (Anglican) Royal Naval College Chapel, King William Walk, Greenwich, SE10. Although the future of the college is in doubt, the chapel is open to the public, and likely to stay that way (rail: Greenwich).

Four Weddings and a Funeral: ìHolbein Placeí ‚ the second reception: Luton Hoo, Luton

The second reception (ëThe Holbein Placeí) was staged at Luton Hoo, then a stately home, a couple of miles south of Luton, 30 miles north of London off the M1, Bedfordshire, itís now a hotel. The 1767 Robert Adam house was, until recently, open to the public, and housed a fascinating collection memorabilia of the Romanovs (the Russian royal family). A frequent movie location, itís been seen in A Shot In the Dark, Eyes Wide Shut, Never Say Never Again and Wilde.

The restaurant, where Carrie catalogues her sexual track record, was the Dome in Wellington Street, Covent Garden (now the Cafe Rouge).

Charles hares off to meet his brother at the entrance to the National Film Theatre on the South Bank, and itís on the terrace of the South Bank that Charles explains to Carrie about David Cassidy and the Partridge Family.

Four Weddings and a Funeral: the reconciliation in the rain at Charles's flat: Highbury Terrace, Highbury Fields

Carrie tries on wedding dresses at Albrissi, an interior design service at 1 Sloane Square – actually at the start of Cliveden Place by Sloane Square.

Wedding No. 3, with Carrie marrying the ‘stiff in the skirt’ at the chapel of ‘Glenthrist Castle, Perthshire’, was filmed in Surrey at Albury Park, just southeast of Guildford, which is open May to September.

The kilt-swirling interior of the castle is the Victorian Gothic house, home of Sir James Scott, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire, Rotherfield Park, East Tisted on the A32 south of Alton, Hampshire.

A lot of people seemed to think that the funeral of Gareth (Simon Callow) took place in South Wales, all looming steelworks and the ‘Severn Bridge’, but it’s actually Essex. The church is the tiny St Clement, West Thurrock, Essex. This ‘redundant’ church – stranded in the wastes of an industrial estate – was restored by soap giants Procter and Gamble (whose giant formless grey cube overshadows it) in 1987 as part of the company’s 150th anniversary. It’s a nature reserve and pretty fiddly to get to. From West Thurrock (a couple of miles west of Grays railway station), take the Stoneness Road south from London Road, turn east into Hedley Avenue and south again into St Clement’s Road where the tiny church is tucked away between the titanic industrial monsters. The spectacular bridge in the background is the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge over the Thames alongside the Dartford Tunnel.

OK, trivia fans. What links this location with a major location from Back To The Future?

Four Weddings and a Funeral: the non-wedding: St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield

Non-wedding No. 4, at ‘St Julian’s’, the church where Charles has second thoughts, is St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, hidden away behind its gatehouse (tube: Farringdon or Barbican). The interior can also be seen in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, where it stands in for ‘Nottingham Cathedral’ and in Neil Jordanís The End of the Affair.