Location
Though set in the fictional Oxfordshire village of Dibley, the series was filmed in the Buckinghamshire village of Turville, with the village's St Mary the Virgin Church doubling as Dibley's St Barnabus (sic). Other TV programmes and films, such as Midsomer Murders, Goodnight Mister Tom, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Went the Day Well?, Father Came Too! and Marple, Foyle's War (ep: the invasion) have also been filmed in the village. The exterior location for David Horton's manor (usually only seen in establishing shots) was not located in Turville, but in the village of Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire approximately 15 miles to the north-east.
The opening titles for the series first show an aerial shot of the M40 motorway's Stokenchurch Gap, which lies a few miles to the east of Turville village, before moving to general aerial shots of the Oxfordshire/Buckinghamshire countryside and the Chiltern Hills. The sequence ends on an aerial shot of the village.
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