Inside The Real Somerset Town Featured In A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder

Having debuted on BBC iPlayer in the UK, the TV adaptation of Holly Jackson’s bestselling YA novel A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder is finally streaming globally on Netflix, garnering millions of viewers in its debut week. Starring Wednesday’s Emma Myers as the titular good girl Pip, we follow the misadventures of a single minded school girl as she sets out to solve a cold murder case that sent shockwaves through her small English countryside town five years ago. Set in the quaint and picturesque town of Little Kilton, where was A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder filmed? Case closed: we’ve got the answers.

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Pip Fitz-Amobi (EMMA MYERS) in A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder. (© BBC/Moonage Pictures/Sally Mais)

Where Was A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder Filmed?

A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder was filmed in Axbridge, a small town in Somerset in southwest England. Axbridge stood in for Little Kilton, which is supposed to be in Buckinghamshire, one of the UK’s home counties close to London. Other filming locations include Redmaids’ High School in Bristol, which stands in for Little Kilton School, and the Redcliffe Caves in Bristol, where A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder’s secret calamity party was filmed.

If you’re certain A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder was actually set in the US when you read it all of those years ago, this isn’t the Mandela effect: in US editions, A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder is set in Fairview, Connecticut instead of the UK.

Can You Visit?

Yes, Axbridge is a real, quaint market town in Somerset, right on the edge of the Mendip Hills and close to the famed town of Cheddar. Around 10 miles northwest of Axbridge is the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare, while Bristol is around 15 miles to the northeast.

Pip Fitz-Amobi (EMMA MYERS) in A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder. (© BBC/Moonage Pictures/Sally Mais)

Is Little Kilton A Real Village?

No, Little Kilton is not a real village, though author Holly Jackson has shared that the fictional town is based on Great Missenden, a small village nestled in the heart of the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, best known as the town the children’s author Roald Dahl lived in for 36 years until his death.

Where Is It Streaming?

All episodes of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder are streaming now on Netflix. In the UK, the series is streaming exclusively on BBC iPlayer.