Midsomer Norton's main live music venue is The Wunderbar.

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.

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

The Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust operates a railway museum at Midsomer Norton railway station and runs passenger trains south towards Chilcompton.

7109 / 1927, Croydon Gasworks No. 37 " Joyce ", preserved at Midsomer Norton railway station

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.

Chinnor station has been used for the filming of various TV series including Miss Marple and Midsomer Murders.

The Midsomer Norton site includes restored station buildings, a signalbox and a goods shed.

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

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.

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.

He has been a core writer for Midsomer Murders since 2006 – Present

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

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.

Nether Winchendon has been a frequent setting for television and film production, including two Midsomer Murders episodes ( as different houses ), Lady Pat's house in Forever Green and the BBC series Chef!

The local free newspaper, the Midsomer Norton, Radstock & District Journal, has its offices in the town.

The camp has also been used to shoot parts of the Channel 4 television series Scrapheap Challenge, and the ITV1 series Midsomer Murders.

Since then he has gone on to become one of the highest-paid stars on British TV, mostly in comedies, appearing in shows such as Only When I Laugh ( as Roy Figgis ), The Beiderbecke Affair ( as Trevor Chaplin ), The Beiderbecke Tapes, Andy Capp ( in the title role ), The Beiderbecke Connection, Second Thoughts ( as Bill MacGregor ), Midsomer Murders, Pay and Display, Dalziel and Pascoe, Close and True, Born and Bred ( as Dr. Arthur Gilder ), and New Tricks ( as Jack Halford ).

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

He has also guest-starred in Inspector Morse ( 1987 ); Covington Cross ( 1992 ); Poirot ( 1994 ); Cadfael ( 1994 ); Agatha Christie's Poirot: Hickory Dickory Dock ( 1995 ); Tales from the Crypt ( 1996 ); Midsomer Murders ( 1996 ); Kangaroo Palace ( 1998 ), an Australian drama set in the 1960s ; The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns ( 1999 ); The Inspector Lynley Mysteries ( 2002 ); Sparkling Cyanide ( 2003 ); and Jericho: The Hollow Men ( 2005 ).

He has also appeared in two separate episodes of Midsomer Murders, in 1998 and 2007, playing two separate characters.

Midsomer Norton has its own Town Council with an elected Mayor.

Along with the rest of South West England, the Midsomer Norton has a temperate climate generally wetter and milder than the rest of England.

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 ).

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.

The parish was created in 1974 as a successor to the Norton-Radstock Urban District which had been created in 1933 by the merger of Midsomer Norton and Radstock urban districts, along with part of Frome Rural District.

The Waugh family connection with Midsomer Norton began when Dr Alexander Waugh, father of Arthur Waugh and grandfather of Evelyn Waugh and Alec Waugh moved to Island House, which had been built in the early 18th century, in The Island in the centre of the town in 1865.

The house has been featured in many British films, including The Amazing Mr Blunden, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, From Russia with Love ( as the SPECTRE headquarters ) and the Carry On films and in such television series as One Foot in the Grave and Midsomer Murders.

The Cottage Bookshop in Penn has been used as one of the filming locations for the A Tale of Two Hamlets episode of the ITV television program Midsomer Murders.

Until then, the town was part of the Norton Radstock civil parish, which was created in 1974 as a successor to the Norton-Radstock Urban District, itself created in 1933 by the merger of Midsomer Norton and Radstock urban districts, along with part of Frome Rural District.

Dial-a-Ride services for the elderly and handicapped are well used, along with the local Community minibus set up by the local Rotary Club in 1967 under Midsomer Norton & Radstock Community Service Vehicle Trust.

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

Highbrow British mysteries including Agatha Christie's Poirot, Cracker, Dalziel and Pascoe, Inspector Morse, Lovejoy, Midsomer Murders, the Joan Hickson Miss Marple series and Sherlock Holmes were also featured ; several of these series were produced in association with A & E.

They travelled to Midsomer Norton, England in July 2006 for the Open European Championships, bringing home four gold medals, including a gold with distinction in the senior concert section for the first time.

As a boy, Evelyn Waugh spent his summer holidays in Midsomer Norton with his maiden aunts.

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.

Her acting career started with the juvenile lead in a television series ( an adaptation of Anne Fine's Goggle Eyes, 1993, alongside Perdita ); since then she has appeared in many programmes, including the children's series The Wild House and the long-running series Midsomer Murders and Poirot.

In 2007 she appeared in the Midsomer Murders episode " A Picture of Innocence ", reuniting her with Bergerac star John Nettles.

She has also appeared in The Citadel, Midsomer Murders, " Judge John Deed ", " Byron ", " Bad Girls ", " Love Soup ", " Armadillo ", " Poirot ", " Daniel Deronda ", as well as in four series of the sitcom Don't Wait Up as Helen with Nigel Havers.