Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy | 2025
Discover where Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy (2025) was filmed around London, in Hampstead, Parliament Hill Fields and Notting Hill – as well as a trip to Cumbria's Lake District.
The fourth and presumably final Bridget Jones film moves into new territory finding her the widowed mother of two kids.
Borough and that flat above the Globe pub are just a memory as we find Bridget (Renee Zellweger) comfortably ensconced in a very – very – nice house tucked away in the Vale of Health, Hampstead, just on the edge of Hampstead Heath in North London.
It's 8 Vale of Health, a neighbourhood which seems to have quite a literary past. Nearby are Blue Plaques commemorating Nobel Prize-winning poet Rabindranath Tagore and writer D H Lawrence.
Her children attend the nearby 'Galsworthy House School' where the no-nonsense science teacher Mr Walliker (Chiwetel Ejiofor) keeps order while wielding a formidable whistle.
This is a real school, Christ Church Primary School on Christchurch Hill at Cannon Place, NW3, and only minutes from the Vale of Health. A scholarly area of Hampstead, on screen at least – a minute away on Cannon Place stands Cannon Hall which was used as the fictitious 'Cannon Hall School' in Christopher Nolan's brain-straining Tenet.
The school interiors, though, at Yerbury Primary School on Foxham Road in Upper Holloway, N19.
How times have changed. When Bridget calls Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant), it's to remind him of babysitting duties, interrupting his enjoyment of a poetry recital by a new girlfriend.
The reading is being held in the beautifully preserved Hope and Anchor, 20 Macbeth Street, Hammersmith in West London, W6.
You can’t sink a pint here though – the pub closed in 2012, though its beautiful 1930s interior is Grade II-listed and thus protected. It’s now partly residential, and rented out for events and filming. You might have seen it on-screen as the 'York' pub in the 2019 film of Downton Abbey or in TV series The Crown and Strike (the adaptation of JK Rowling's Cormoran Strike novels).
The exterior of the pub, which Daniel is seen leaving, is The Pig's Ear, a gastropub at 35 Old Church Street, Chelsea SW3.
Bridget is off to attend a glum evening to mark the 4th anniversary of the death of Mark Darcy at the home of his parents.
They live at 14 Thurloe Square in Knightsbridge, SW7, where the imposing edifice towering in the background is the Victoria and Albert Museum on Cromwell Road.
Bridget is eager to move on to a less formal celebration of Mark's life with her old chums in the unmistakable Old Queens Head pub, 44 Essex Road in Islington N1.
The plot kicks in when Bridget takes the kids for a day out on Hampstead Heath where the three become stuck after trying to climb a venerable oak tree. This invites offers of help from Mr Walliker, who happens to be passing, and from hunky young tree-surgeon, and garbage expert, called Roxster (Leo Woodall).
Bridget muses that she seems to have discovered a "magical Man Tree'. If you want to test the tree's powers for yourself, you'll find it on Parliament Hill Fields, above the Athletics Track at Gospel Oak, NW3. It looks a little different from the film since fake branches and footholds were added for the shoot to facilitate climbing.
After Bridget finds the perfect nanny, she's able to return to her old job as a TV producer on 'Better Women'. The exterior and the lobby of the TV studio are Moor House, 120 London Wall, an enormous 2005 glass landmark near Moorgate tube station in the City of London. It's actually high-end luxury accommodation.
The interior studio space is the Television Centre on Wood Lane in White City, West London. It's part of the old BBC Television Centre, which was the headquarters of BBC Television from 1960 to 2013, when the Corporation moved out. As well as the three remaining studios, the complex is now a mix of residential apartments, retail outlets and office space.
Subsequent texts from Roxster lead to a date, which results in Bridget optimistically stocking up on all brands – and sizes – of condoms at Ritz Pharmacy on Highgate Road opposite Hampstead tube station.
Roxster suggests meeting in Borough Market, giving the opportunity for a nostalgic glimpse of the Globe Tavern.
"Do you know this area?" He asks.
The venue for their date turns out to be some distance from Borough in Notting Hill. The cool looking restaurant with the curved ceiling was until recently the Electric Diner which stood at 191 Portobello Road, W11, alongside the Electric Cinema. Things change quickly in London, the premises now houses Thai restaurant Speedboat Bar.
Cue a romantic summer montage with Bridget and Roxster strolling along the towpath of the Hertford Union Canal past Graffiti Wall (which has itself become a tourist site) in the area known as Fish Island in Hackney. They share a meal in cosy restaurant La Cage Imaginaire, 16 Flask Walk, Hampstead NW3 – which is still there.
The alfresco birthday party for Bridget's co-worker Talitha (Josette Simon), where Roxster rescues the doggy from the pool – and gives us the traditional wet-shirt moment – is Petersham House, a 17th-century mansion in Richmond, the private residence of the owners of Petersham Nurseries.
And it's here, later on as alcohol unleashes unspoken thoughts, that Roxster ominously mentions wanting a Time Machine. The age gap the couple have been blissfully ignoring opens into a chasm.
Bridget takes the kids to release balloons with messages to their father on Hampstead Heath. A quick reminder here – real balloons, as opposed to CGI creations on screen, do not float up to heaven. They eventually sink deflated back to earth to become choking hazards to wildlife. Please don't.
Bridget finds herself unenthusiastically drafted into the school's Outward Bound trip which takes us to Cumbria's wild and beautiful Lake District and a tentative bonding with the aloof Mr Walliker in an old barn. Mr Walliker also gets closer to Bridget's son Billy which eventually leads to a Richard Curtis-style scene at the school Christmas concert.
On their way to the concert, Bridget buys daughter Mabel a hot chocolate on Hampstead's picturesque Flask Walk, off Hampstead High Street, dressed with a layer of fake snow.
The concert is held in Normansfield Theatre, Langdon Down Centre in Teddington, a beautiful Grade II-listed theatre.
The result is a moment between Bridget and Mr Walliker which leads to her inviting him to join them for a drink in The Spaniards Inn, Spaniards Road NW3 – and more fake snow.
This historic pub stands on a main road into Hampstead opposite an ancient tollhouse which, as a protected monument, creates a narrow single-lane bottleneck through which traffic has to squeeze.
Built in 1585 by two Spanish brothers, the Grade II-listed London pub was immortalised by Charles Dickens in The Pickwick Papers, was allegedly the place in which John Keats penned Ode to a Nightingale and according to legend was a haunt of 18th century highwayman Dick Turpin.
