The Wind in the Willows, 1996
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visit the film locations
Suffolk: Visit Kentwell Hall, Long Melford (tel: 01787.310207)
Sussex: ride the Bluebell Railway between Sheffield Park and Horsted Keynes
Trivia
See Kentwell Hall again in Witchfinder General.
The Wind In The Willows location: Mr Toad’s ‘Toad Hall’: Kentwell Hall, Suffolk
Photo: flickr / Ben Sheldrake
Ex-Python star Terry Jones directs, and stars in, this amiable adaptation of the classic children’s story.
‘Toad Hall’ is the red-brick Tudor Kentwell Hall, Long Melford in Suffolk.
Kentwell Hall had previously appeared in a very different kind of film, Michael Reeves’ brilliantly nasty Witchfinder General, with Vincent Price as witch-hunter Matthew Hopkins.
The railway scenes were filmed on the Bluebell Railway – a five mile stretch of track between Horsted Keynes and Sheffield Park, northeast of Haywards Heath in East Sussex.