Gretna Green - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • An anvil was installed in Gretna, Manitoba, Canada, to symbolize the blacksmith and the source of the town's name.
  • In an episode of the BBC series You Rang, M'Lord?, two of the characters elope to Gretna Green. This then prompts two other characters to elope in a similar manner. However, they are stopped before they reach their destination.
  • In Love and Freindship by Jane Austen, the main characters convince an impressionable girl to elope with an acquaintance to Gretna Green.
  • In Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, the couple that elopes in Chapter 47 leaves behind a note stating that their intended destination is Gretna Green.
  • In Nemesis by Agatha Christie, Miss Marple references Gretna Green in passing, noting: "There was no need for them to fly off to Gretna Green, they were of sufficiently mature age to marry."
  • Some scenes of Les grandes vacances (1967) with Louis de Funès were set there.
  • In the BBC drama Waterloo Road, Francesca Montoya (a teacher) and Jonah Kirby (a pupil) flee to Gretna Green to be married.
  • In the BBC soap opera EastEnders, Sam Mitchell and Ricky Butcher flee to Gretna Green, as they are both teenagers, in 1991.
  • Two couples elope to Gretna Green in Lisa Kleypas's Wallflower book series.
  • In Lynsay Sands' romance novel The Heiress the main characters' goal is to marry at Gretna Green.
  • In the second series of Downton Abbey, Lady Sybil Crawley and the chauffeur Tom Branson set off for Gretna Green with plans to elope, before being caught by her sisters.
  • In the soap opera Coronation Street Sophie Webster and Sian Powers nearly run off to Gretna Green to elope. In 1998 Nick Tilsley married Leanne Battersby at Gretna Green.
  • Season 3 Episode 7 of the BBC series May to December, Zoe surprised Alec with a trip to Gretna Green to be married.
  • In the Japanese manga series Embalming -The Another Tale of Frankenstein-, Azalea and Phillip are on their way to Gretna Green to elope.

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