Lights! Camera! Holiday! Or so it seems. ‘Set-jetting’ is one of the hottest travel trends for 2026 – Expedia research found 81% of Gen Z and Millennials plan trips around locations featured in film and television. And the UK is a hotspot.
Thanks to the country’s diversity and drama, it’s been the backdrop to some of the hottest releases of the year, inspiring us to wander windswept moors à la Margot Robbie, channel a flat-capped Cillian Murphy in Birmingham or go Bridgerton Regencycore in Bath (yes, there are companies that will dress you in period gowns).
Here are a few places where you can put yourself in the pictures…
1 Bridgerton
Where? Bath
© LIAM DANIEL/NETFLIXSeason four of this Regency romp is out now, the perfect spur for a visit to Bath. The show does use locations elsewhere, but this beautiful honey-stone city is pure Bridgerton. Cobbled and colonnaded Bath Street, the grand Holburne Museum, Beauford Square and the sweeping Royal Crescent have all made appearances. For on-theme refreshments, head to the Abbey Deli, which stood in for the Modiste dress shop in the first two seasons; for expert intel, join Blue Badge guide Fred Mawr for a Bridgerton tour.
Where to stay: The Royal Crescent Hotel is pure Georgian elegance. Doubles from £435pn B&B, Bath on Screen package, including themed tour, costs from £818pn DB&B; royalcrescent.co.uk
© Getty Images2 The Magic Faraway Tree
Where? Surrey Hills
Enid Blyton doesn’t name the location of her Magic Faraway Tree – rather, her novels play out in a sepia-tinged vision of rural England. For the new movie, the crew settled on the Surrey Hills, a sylvan swathe of rolling downs, steep scarps, chalk grasslands and plentiful trees – Surrey is England’s most wooded county. The film used a private estate, but many ‘Enchanted Woods’ can be explored, including Abinger Roughs (home to the creepy Witch’s Broom Tree), the giant sequoias of Leith Hill and Deepdene, a secret garden of forgotten grottoes, follies and ruins.
Where to stay: Surrey’s elegant Pennyhill Park Hotel & Spa is set in 120 luxuriant acres. Doubles from £321pn B&B; exclusive.co.uk/pennyhill-park
3 Wuthering Heights
Where? Yorkshire Dales
© Warner BrosYorkshire’s raw, wild, moody moors are as much a character in Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel as Cathy and Heathcliff. So where else could filming for Emerald Fennell’s movie version take place? The production used spots around rippling Swaledale, one of the loveliest and least-touched valleys in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Scenes were shot amid Low Row’s comely stone cottages and in the untamed moors above, around Old Gang Smelt Mill and Surrender Bridge – which, incidentally, also starred in the opening credits of All Creatures Great and Small. There’s great walking country all around.
Where to stay: The Wuthering Heights cast and crew stayed at luxe 17th-century country-house hotel Simonstone Hall. Doubles from £199pn B&B; simonstonehall.com
© Getty Images4 Peaky Blinders: Immortal Man
Where? Birmingham
The new Peaky Blinders movie uses sites such as Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Bradford’s historic Little Germany, but the heart and soul of the Shelby saga will always lie in the West Midlands. Dudley was the haunt of both real-life and fictional Peaky Blinders: stroll cobbled alleys, boat docks and backyards used on screen at the open-air Black Country Living Museum. In Birmingham, hit Digbeth: once the city’s industrial hub, it’s now its creative district, home to Victorian factories transformed into indie bars and shops, as well as Digbeth Loc Studios, where the movie was largely made.
© NetflixWhere to stay: Opened in 1879, the recently restored Grand Hotel oozes period glamour. Doubles from £133pn B&B; thegrandhotelbirmingham.co.uk
5 Harry Potter
Where? Highlands
It’s been 25 years since the first Harry Potter movie, and all eyes will be on the boy wizard again when the new series launches later this year. The original films were shot in locations across Britain, from the cloisters of Durham Cathedral to London’s King’s Cross Station (home of Platform 9¾). But there’s no more iconic Potter experience than riding the Jacobite Steam Train – aka the Hogwarts Express – between Fort William and Mallaig. From the base of Ben Nevis, the train puffs via deep lochs, heathery moors and 21-arch Glenfinnan Viaduct – pure magic.
© Getty ImagesWhere to stay: There’s something a bit Hogwarts about Fort William’s turreted, mountain-backed Inverlochy Castle Hotel. Doubles from £450pn B&B; inverlochycastlehotel.com
6 Hamnet
Where? Herefordshire
This award-winner about the Shakespeares didn’t use their real home of Stratford-upon-Avon. It used far less-crowded little Weobley instead, an excellent stand-in for Elizabethan England, chock-full of black-and-white timber houses. Shots were taken on Broad Street, looking towards the soaring spire of the Church of St Peter and St Paul; a door next to the Wobbly Badger Café played the family’s home. Take a walk with Hamnet History Tours & So Much More and explore beyond the town, via the Black and White Villages Trail, which meanders round Herefordshire’s other scenic timber-framed towns such as Pembridge and Leominster.
© Getty ImagesWhere to stay: Weobley’s character-packed St Columba’s Cottage dates back to 1540. Doubles from £110pn B&B; stcolumbasweobley.co.uk
