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The city might already be familiar to you, even if you’re not aware of it. Take a wander around the cobbled streets of Winchester and you might recognise a few things –streets, buildings, monuments, that have slipped through to popular culture. The majestic Winchester Cathedral features in many a television show and film, including Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Ron Howard’s The Da Vinci Code, BBC’s Wolf Hall and Netflix’s The Crown.

Winchester also disguises itself as the streets of Paris during the Revolution in Tom

Hooper’s Les Misérables and Winchester College stands in for Oxford in Lone Scherfig’s The Riot Club. Many well known performers from Hugh Jackman to Claire Foy have walked the streets of Winchester, so you’re in good company.

And just to bring the examples up to the modern day, Josie’s cafe – (the ultimate pancake stacks in the city) is mentioned a few times in Beth O’Leary’s romantic novel The No-Show