Midsomer Norton's railway station has been memorialised, along with many other stations, in a famous song associated with railway closures, Slow Train, lyrics by Michael Flanders, music by Donald Swann :-

* Tom Barnaby, the main character and ( in some countries ) the namesake of the TV series Midsomer Murders

Although no filming has ever taken place in Midsomer Norton or the surrounding parishes, some names of other nearby locations have been used by the producers in creating their fictional county of Midsomer, including Midsomer Wellow ( Wellow ), Midsomer Magna ( Chew Magna ), Midsomer Morton and the main settlement of Causton ( Corston ).

Midsomer Norton provides shopping and service industries for the surrounding areas and supports several music venues and bands.

* A Punch & Judy professor is an important character in " Destroying Angel ", the 15th episode of the " Midsomer Murders " series ( 2000 ).

He is a familiar face on television appearing in many long-running series: Midsomer Murders, Waking the Dead and Poirot as well as one-off dramas.

Midsomer Murders, the ITV crime series is often filmed in Long Crendon with locals posing as extras.

As one of the best-preserved period railway stations in England, Quainton Road is regularly used as a filming location for period drama, and programmes such as The Jewel in the Crown, the Doctor Who episode Black Orchid and Midsomer Murders have been filmed there.

The town of Midsomer Norton, in Somerset, England, is said to be named after the Feast Day of St John the Baptist, which is also the parish church.

Norton Radstock is the former name of the small conurbation covering Midsomer Norton, Radstock and Westfield.

Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997.

Midsomer Norton () is a town near the Mendip Hills in Bath & North East Somerset, England, south-west of Bath, north-east of Wells, north-west of Frome, and south-east of Bristol.

Midsomer Norton is characterised by the River Somer which runs the length of the town centre.

Midsomer Norton is home to a leisure centre, several sports clubs and provides youth opportunities such as Scouts and Guides.

In some church records the town is referred to as ' Norton Canonicorum ' as an alternative to Midsomer Norton, and this may be because of the local Priory's link to Merton Priory in London until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1546.

The stations were both called " Midsomer Norton and Welton " ( the B & NSR station was originally called just " Welton "); under British Railways, the S & D station was renamed as Midsomer Norton South after a short period as Midsomer Norton Upper ; and is currently being restored with occasional open weekends with engines in steam.

The town's free newspaper is the Midsomer Norton, Radstock & District Journal.

There is also a community website where residents can discuss local issues called Midsomer Norton People.

Despite some occasional confusion, there is no other link between Midsomer Norton and the television series.

There is a successful Scout group, the 1st Midsomer Norton Scout Group based at Radstock Road, providing scouting to around 140 boys and girls per week, and a similarly popular Guide group a short distance away at Rock Hall.

In addition, St Benedicts Catholic Primary School on the edge of Midsomer Norton with a ' Midsomer Norton, Radstock ' postal address, is actually part of the neighbouring Somerset County Council's education service.

Neither of the S & DJR Sentinels has been preserved but a similar locomotive is under restoration at Midsomer Norton railway station.

Chilcompton is a civil parish and village in Somerset, England, situated in the Mendip Hills two miles south of Midsomer Norton and 3. 0 miles south-west of Westfield, close to the A37 ( between Shepton Mallet and Bristol ).

Twyford Railway station has been used as a television film location in Midsomer Murders and in the new BBC comedy series Mutual Friends where it is the scene of a suicide.

The theremin was used in movie soundtracks such as Miklós Rózsa's for Spellbound and The Lost Weekend and Bernard Herrmann's for The Day the Earth Stood Still and as the theme tune for the ITV drama Midsomer Murders.

Bron appeared in the long-running British TV series Midsomer Murders as Lady Isobel DeQuetteville in the episode " The Dark Rider ", first aired on ITV1 on 1 February 2012.

STV aims to broadcast more Scottish programmes at peak times and so removed several key ITV plc programmes from their schedule in July 2009 including The Bill, Midsomer Murders and Lewis.

The studio has provided stained glass for, among others, the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Ghost, Midsomer Norton.

For post-16 education, students travel to colleges in other local towns, for example Frome Community College, Strode College in Street or Norton Radstock College in Midsomer Norton.

Since 2000, Whitfield has appeared in The Royal, Midsomer Murders, Marple, New Tricks and Last of the Summer Wine, which she joined in 2005.

In recent years, the town has been used as a location for filming, including Midsomer Murders, which has also featured the Parish Church Choir.

Cities and towns in Avon included ( in approximate order of population ) Bristol, Bath, Weston-super-Mare, Yate, Clevedon, Portishead, Midsomer Norton & Radstock, Bradley Stoke, Nailsea, Yatton, Keynsham, Kingswood, Thornbury, Filton and Patchway.

She has also made many single television appearances, including playing Jill, the receptionist from Pear Tree Productions, in one episode of the first series of I'm Alan Partridge, a rural dominatrix in Doc Martin as well as roles in Midsomer Murders and Coronation Street.

Since 1990, he has appeared in Lovejoy, Inspector Morse, Midsomer Murders ( the episode " Death's Shadow "), Doctors, New Tricks, Kingdom, and If You See God, Tell Him.

Some of the programmes Channel Television took responsibility for included The X Factor, Midsomer Murders and the British Comedy Awards.

Davison has made television appearances in an episode of Midsomer Murders, in July 2009, and a guest appearance in Miranda Hart's sitcom, Miranda, on BBC 2 in autumn 2009.

He introduces a new member of the damned: Edith Cordelia Barrington ( Annette Crosbie ), an academic and historian who has recently arrived in Hell after having apparently committed suicide due to an apparent overdose of barbiturates while watching Midsomer Murders.

More recently it has often been used as a " location " for the TV murder mystery series, Midsomer Murders.

Princes Risborough has been featured several times in films and television series ( e. g. Jonathan Creek, Inspector Morse, Midsomer Murders and Double First ).

The village has been used as the backdrop for a number of television programmes including Jeeves and Wooster and eight episodes of Midsomer Murders.

The village was used as a location in the television series Midsomer Murders – ep.

The village, like surrounding villages, has been the location of several Midsomer Murders episodes.

ITV used Thame many times as a location for the Midsomer Murders drama series.

The village has been used in many films and television programmes over the years, particularly as one of the more frequent ITV Midsomer Murders filming locations.

Scenes have also been shot in the village for Midsomer Murders, Lewis, Marple, the 2008 Christmas special of Jonathan Creek, the British drama An Education, and the 2009 BBC adaptation of The Day Of The Triffids.