Bourne Woods
Located near Farnham and set above a large heathland clearing, Bourne Wood offers impressive views over the surrounding pine forests.
The sand soil provides a good walking surface, and the many public footpaths give great access to the woodland, where you can take in the beautiful natural scenery.
Bourne Wood is also strategically important to the UK film industry as a filming location. Since 1999 numerous films, commercials, television programmes and music videos have been filmed here!
Since the opening sequence of Gladiator was shot here in 1999, Bourne Wood has now become an iconic filming location both locally and internationally. Being the destination of choice for small shoots such as one off commercial photo shoots for adverts and larger TV drama productions, alongside being a site of national significance to the UK Film & TV industry with a number of feature films using the site for filming activities, including various Harry Potter films (2009-2011) and more recently Wonder Woman (2017).
It’s unrivalled in terms of location, being under one hour from the film studios in the South East of England, and it provides temporary build space for big budget productions including cinematic views that are not overlooked by development, power lines or other modern infrastructure. In particular, the bowl area of the site has often been used as it is surrounded by mature pines screening the area from the road and neighbouring properties. It can also double for features set in other countries. In doing so, the wood is delivering economic benefit at a national and international level through its contribution to the film industry, and furthermore at a local level directly into the viability of the site for management and forestation and through spending on local businesses. As such, Forestry England have extensive knowledge in using forests for a variety of uses and the wood has remained a beautiful place for local residents to walk and enjoy the area.
Bourne Wood, Farnham Sat Nav Postcode: GU10 2BH
OS Grid Ref SU860444