12 films and television programmes filmed in and around Portsmouth and Hampshire
Bond has been a visitor over the years, Doctor Who – in various incarnations – regularly touches down and there has been a fair share of big budget films.
Portsmouth and Hampshire have been the set for several films and television series over the years, and here are some of the times we have starred on the big and small screen.
John Cleese starred in the 1997 film about the fictional London zoo Marwood - filmed at the similarly named Marwell Zoo near Bishop's Waltham - which is ordered to increase profits by getting rid of all the animals except the ferocious ones Photo: Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images
HMS Westminster 'played' three fictional warships - HMS Chester, HMS Devonshire and HMS Bedford in the 1997 Pierce Brosnan Bond film with an evil media mogul Elliott Carver hellbent on starting a war between the UK and China Photo: -
Hugh Bonneville starred in Silent Hours as a former naval officer who becomes a suspect in the hunt for a sexual killer after three women are murdered. It is set and filmed in and around Portsmouth Photo: Sarah Standing
Hampshire residents will have noticed that when the Knights meet the Pope in the ‘Vatican’, it does not quite look like Rome. In fact it was filmed in Winchester Cathedral Photo: Adrian Dennis/Getty Images