In Search of Three Detectives

Travel to Oxfordshire

If time and route permit, why not visit some of the other delightful villages in the area used for filming, including Lewknor, Ewelme and Dorchester-on-Thames.

Inspector Morse, Oxford and ‘Midsomer Murders’

Today we head for the ‘dreaming spires’ of Oxford where a private guided walking tour will follow in the footsteps of DCI Morse and his successor, DI Lewis.

After lunch we visit the National Trust’s Waddesdon Manor (open Wednesday to Sunday). The house was built by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild between 1874 and 1885 to display his outstanding collection of arts and to entertain the fashionable world. It featured in the Midsomer Murders episode ‘Death of a Stranger’. We continue to the hill-top village of Brill, the location for more episodes of Midsomer Murders, with a 17^th century windmill.

Sherlock Holmes and London

A contrast with the rural delights of Midsomer today as we drive into London to walk in the footsteps of Sherlock Holmes. But before the walk we meet the man himself who will escort us to his home at 221b Baker Street. We then take a walking tour around the back streets of Victorian London with free time to explore some of the sights of the capital.

‘Midsomer Murders’ and Return Home.

We’ve included a stop at Chenies Manor House (open on Mondays and Tuesdays) near Rickmansworth in Buckinghamshire. The house, which has delightfully enchanting gardens, features in ‘Midsomer Murders’.