| The New Forest |
| The camp in Sherwood Forest was in Burnham Beeches, but for other scenes set in Sherwood the producer's used The New Forest in Hampshire. The beechwood area of Mark Ash Wood west of the village of Lyndhurst was used (grid reference SU 243 073). Also filmed at Hampton Ridge (the scenes where Robin, Azeem and Duncan enter Sherwood) Possibly also shot at either Alderhill Inclosure or Pitts Wood Inclosure, but this is not confirmed. Richard Reeves, Deputy Librarian at the New Forest Museum kindly provided me with the following information: Sets & Locations Edge of Forest (Loc 1) Forest Gnarled Oak (Loc 1) Forest (Loc 1) Camp 1 (Loc 2) Forest (Loc 2) Location 1 Hampton Ridge Location 2 Mark Ash Wood Base camp for crew As to dates in September 1990 I only have info on two days. They occupied the field at Bolderwood Cottage from Monday 8th to Friday 14th September 1990, as seen in the attached photo. Sun 9th 12:30 RV at Crest Hotel, Leigh Road, Eastleigh. 13:30 Crew leave for New Forest. 18:00 Cast meets at Crest Hotel, Soton. Mon 10th (First day of) Filming at Hampton Ridge from 07:30 Scene nos 40pt, 41, 42, 43, 43A & 87 Caroline Stride, who lived at Bolderwood Cottage during the filming and she said that some of the scenes in Mark Ash Wood were daylight scenes filmed at night under floodlight. Also the large beech from which the speech is made has now fallen down. She also told me that when the cast left she got 'a peck on the cheek from Kevin Costner' also that MorganFreenman was 'such a gentleman'. |
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