There's a chance your favourite film was shot in Medway

Hundreds of films and tv shows have been shot in our towns

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Most of us in Medway know by now that quite a lot of films and tv shows are shot here, particularly the large scale productions that shoot at Chatham Dockyard. Medway has a pretty extensive history of things being filmed here though and in locations far more varied than the Dockyard. For this edition, I’m taking a look at a few of them. This is by no means a definitive list, just some of the more interesting ones.