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Cambridge

city in Cambridgeshire, England

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · 52.2081, 0.1225

Cambridge is recorded as a filming location for 2 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Cambridge, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 2 more.

2 productions were filmed at 1 place inside Cambridge rather than at Cambridge itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“The school chapel scene with the song "O Lord, Please Don't Burn Us" was shot at Churchill College, Cambridge.”
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) · Wikipedia

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Photo: Andrew Dunn · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Movies filmed in Cambridge

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Cambridge as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

Movies filmed elsewhere in Cambridge

2 productions shot at 1 place inside Cambridge, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Cambridge itself.

Named here by Cambridge’s own Wikipedia article

Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Cambridge, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.

Set here, per Wikipedia

Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Cambridge, where Wikidata’s narrative-location statement stops at the country. Still a setting and not a shoot, and still a sentence rather than a statement — two steps from the strongest evidence on this atlas, and labelled at both.

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Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Cambridge?

6 productions are recorded as filmed in Cambridge, 2 of them at places inside it, including The Theory of Everything (2014), The Canterbury Tales (1972) and Project Hail Mary (2026). 2 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Cambridge?

The Theory of Everything (2014), covered by 65 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Cambridge?

Cambridge is in the United Kingdom, at 52.2081, 0.1225. The day trip guide for Cambridge, United Kingdom lists 842 filming locations within 100 km.

What other filming locations are near Cambridge?

RAF Cardington, Cardington, University of Cambridge, River Cam and 2 more, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Andrew Dunn, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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