CREDITS WITHNAIL & I, 1987 dir: Bruce Robinson Richard E Grant Paul McGann Richard Griffiths Ralph Brown Michael Elphick

“We want the finest wines available to humanity, and we want them here, and we want them now.”

Bruce Robinson’s sixties-set comedy has acquired a vast cult following over the years.

Set in Camden Town, most of the London scenes were actually filmed in Notting Hill, including the squalid flat, which has since been demolished.

The filmís ‘Mother Black Cap’ pub (presumably a conflation of Camden’s Black Cap and Mother Red Cap – now the Worldís End), where Withnail orders “Two large gins. Two pints of cider. Ice in the cider”, was until recently one of the Babushka chain. It has now been relaunched as – The Mother Black Cap, 41 Tavistock Crescent at St Mark’s Grove, W11, facing the end of St Luke’s Road. It’s had a radical makeover since finding fame as Camden’s woozy old Irish boozer.

Withnail and I location: The ‘Mother Black Cap, Camden’: The Mother Black Cap, Notting Hill

This is a popular spot for movie-makers. Nearby you’ll find locations for the archetypal 60s ‘issue’ movie The L-Shaped Room, the Bill Murray comedy The Man Who Knew Too Little and the Beatles’ first feature film A Hard Day’s Night.

The wolf enclosure is in Camden, though the wolves have now gone. Itís Regent’s Park Zoo, by the Gloucester Gate entrance from the Outer Circle.

Withnail and I location: Uncle Monty's London house: Glebe Place, Chelsea

The grand London home of Uncle Monty (Richard Griffiths) is West House, 35 Glebe Place, tucked away in a crook of the street off Bramerton Street, SW3, in Chelsea.

‘Crow Cragg’, where the pair end up “on holiday by mistake”, is Sleddale Hall, a derelict cottage alongside Wet Sleddale Reservoir, just west from the A6, near Shap, about twelve miles south of Penrith, Cumbria (rail: Penrith). And, yes, that is Wet Sleddale and not ‘West Sleddale’. I have no idea if there’s a Dry Sleddale Reservoir.

There’s a limited bus service from Penrith to Shap. About a mile south of Shap, a narrow road runs west to Wet Sleddale, and from that, about two miles of footpath lead to Sleddale Hall. Although the cottage overlooks Wet Sleddale Reservoir, thatís not the spectacular body of water seen in the movie.

Withnail and I location: Sleddale Hall in 2000, empty and shuttered

There seem to be plenty of Withnail fans who head to Penrith to find the ‘King Henry’ pub and the ‘Penrith Tea Rooms’ without realising that these scenes were filmed in Buckinghamshire.

Withnail and I location: The ‘King Henry’ pub: The Crown, Stony Stratford

The town square is Market Square, Stony Stratford, not far from Milton Keynes (rail: Wolverton). The ‘King Henry’ is The Crown, 9 Market Place, but the really sad news is that there is no tea room, so you’ll not be able to order the finest wines known to humanity. The premises is now a chemist shop, Cox and Robinson, 1 Market Place, on the opposite corner to the Crown.