Below are my latest pictures of the film set in Farnham woods and a couple of photos from another film set very near by.

Farnham Woods, 19th April 2009

Oxenford Farm

I had been told that down the road from us they were filming more of the movie on a local farm. I found the farm not too far away. I knew that is would be private land being a farm so thought better than to just start taking pictures and climbing over fences. So I went up to the farm and spoke to one of the many security guards drinking flasks of tea outside.

The chap I spoke to happened to be the owner of the farm and made it quite clear no one was allowed to take any photos. He even said someone had been trying to the day before and a neighbour had rung the police. After chatting to him for a while the guy said that they were currently filming for the next few days in Shepperton studios.

I took a couple of sneeky ones anyway. I couldn’t really see the main set from the road but if you drive along past slightly, you can see a whole town constructed with what looked like half a church.

Oxenford Farm still employs traditional farming methods today the farm can trace its origins back to it being recorded as a Ley farm for Waverley Abbey in the 12th century. The dominant buildings visible from the road are relatively modern and were designed by Augustus Pugin in 1840. They once sat aside the principal entrance to the Peper Harow estate with the most striking being the Gothic styled ‘Tythe’ barn that stands by the carp pond, the latter having been created as part of the original 12th century Ley farm.

Check out my previous post on the Robin Hood film set.

He was originally going to play a sympathetic sheriff, which then became a sheriff that is also Robin Hood (aka, Batman/Bruce Wayne), and now he is just playing Robin Hood. The part of the sheriff (to be played by someone else) will be a minimal.