BAFTA Winning Hamnet
Filmed near Orchard Escapes!
Orchard Escapes is set in a historic orchard within the property of Pitch Farm, a 400-year-old black and white Tudor house. Weobley is only 4 miles from us.
Weobley Village
Once you walk around this charming old black and white village, it is not hard to see why Hollywood chose Weobley to be the film setting for the now Bafta-acclaimed Hamnet. The village was transformed into 16th-century Stratford-upon-Avon in summer 2024, for the film starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley. Directed by Chloé Zhao.
Based on the 2020 novel by Maggie O’Farrell of the same name, the story is a fictional account of the grief felt by the Shakespeare family after The Bard’s real-life son died.
Filming was centered around Broad Street, Bell Square, and Church Road.
Broad Street became the home of William Shakespeare, a Tudor-housed street with authentic, age-old black-and-white houses resembling those of 1596, the time period the film is set in. Production crews disguised modern features and covered streets in straw and authentic props like manure to recreate the 1590s.
The flood scene, one of the most significant filmed in the village, featured a staged flood in which water was sent tumbling down the main thoroughfare.
Nearby cafe, The Wobbly Badger, which opened last year, was not far from the action of the film crews, with a door next to the cafe used in a shot of the film.
The nearby church of St Peter and St Paul has the second-highest spire in Herefordshire, standing at 56 metres tall. The church was also used in a wedding scene in the film.
Film-Inspired Trail: Visit Herefordshire launched the "Through Tudor Landscapes Trail", a walking route starting in Weobley that allows visitors to follow in the footsteps of the cast.
https://www.visitherefordshire.co.uk/film-locations-herefordshire
Photography Exhibition: The Weobley Museum and Library currently hosts a "Hamnet Behind the Scenes" exhibition featuring photographs of the village's transformation during the shoot.
Cwmmau Farmhouse (National Trust owned) in nearby Whitney-on-Wye served as "Hewlands," the childhood home of Agnes (Shakespeare's wife)
Weobly and Dilwyn are two of the villages on the Black and White Trail, which is a 40-mile driving route through Herefordshire, showcasing medieval, timber-framed, black-and-white houses and villages. Start at Pitch Farm House and visit the small villages, and remember to take your camera for magnificent photo opportunities.
