Wells, England: the City from Hot Fuzz (Filming Locations)
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Today we are in Wells, England, often described as the smallest city in England (although I don't think it really holds that title anymore). We are here to check out all of the Hotz Fuzz filming locations we can find (and have a taste at trying our first Cornetto ice cream), but what we didn't realize is that we'd fall in love with this gorgeous little city. The Wells Cathedral, Bishops Palace, and the town itself are all magnificent and we had a wonderful day exploring the city.
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Thank you for what you said about my hometown. If I knew when you were going to be there I would have met you and shown you around everywhere they filmed. I was born in Wells and me and my brother and sister was christened in st Cuthbert's church and my sister was married in the same church. It's just a shame you didn't get there on a Friday as there is an open air market you could have explored. You also missed the women's world record long jump plaque which is in brass set in the pavement (sidewalk) as you head towards the cathedral from the market Square that you were in at beginning of the vid. Hope you enjoy the rest of the UK and your time here. 😁👍
In one of the BlackAdder series set in medieval times he has an encounter with the "Baby eating Bishop of Bath and Wells"
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Wells is 55 minutes from Stonehenge in Salisbury plain. This site is an ancient monument that is actually older than the Egyptian Pyramids so it's definitely worth a visit the history of the henge is absolutely impressive. Also if your in the area on the 22 June that is the Summer Solstice. This just happens to be such a spiritual place on midsummers day 22 June you have to go and visit this monument and museum it's a great place to go. Also try the Mead it is Fortified honey wine. It's one of England's oldest alcoholic drinks
Stonehenge is on the A303 and the carpark is huge so plenty of room to park with the option to either catch a bus or walk to the stones from the museum and carpark.
Yarp!
The swans ring a bell in the bishops palace to be feed
Stayed in the Swan whilst visiting Wells Cathedral School where my grandson, now at the Guildhall School of Music, was a student. Beautiful city and magnificent cathedral.
I love to pop down here regularly as it's only about 60 mins from where I am in Bristol. The swans ringing the bell for lunch always gets me.
Holy Jesus! I’ve watched the cornetto trilogy more than anything else now it seems, when they are on tv you get totally sucked in! Modern classics now! 😂😂😂😂😎😎😎😎👍👍👍👍
Hot Fuzz is genuinely the only perfect movie I’ve ever seen I think, you need to watch it at least 5 times but there is not a wasted scene, moment, word of dialogue etc. It’s all a reference, foreshadowing or just funny/witty line. Glad you guys are fans! 👍
Agree 100 percent. I am a writer, and got a copy of the script to analyze its structure. Perfect. So many of the schlocky Netflix films made today start out promising, but totally run out of steam by the end and land with a thud with an ending that may or may not have any relation to earlier plot, or some desperate flurry of activity totally out of character by the protagonist.
well there is a huge cockup in hot fuzz that goes amiss... the scene where they are sat in the cop car doing speed checks and chatting... angel says "| if you had paid attention to me at school"... ??????
@@johntaphouse5235Are you acoustic?
A Cornetto was my first snack after arriving in the UK. Me and my sons LOVE Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. We have seen their movies 1,000 times...we know every line 🤣😂
Worth thinking about how amazing the cathedral must have looked centuries ago, when it was painted in bright colours... And most people lived in mud huts, it must have been awe-inspiring.
I live not far from Wells, it is in a really picturesque part of Somerset and you should definitely come back and explore the area more
We need to. It was beautiful!
I live not too far from Wells , there is also Glastonbury you need to go to and one of the battles of the British civil war the battle of Sedgmoor I live in a small coastal town near Weston Super mare
❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿thank you for sharing never been to this town or seen the film so now I may do both
I love the fact that you guys love Hot Fuzz - a quintessentially British film that may not translate well to America, but you loved it! :D
it's famous in America ....
I live in wells , also my dad used to be the head chef of the swan hotel before he moved house to Germany to work with a celebrity chef
I went to school in wells for two years and it is the most beautiful place. I’m so glad you visited. Yes the bells go on for a while on a Sunday. The cathedral school is spend across the top half of town so is an incredible place to study. I hope you come back to Somerset again there is so much to see.
So glad you visited our beautiful City of Wells, I used to be the Village Policeman at Blagdon and Wells was our nearest town (City) where we had dentist, optician and supermarkets etc. I love it and spent a lot of time just going there to enjoy it and its pubs and coffee shops and of course the twice weekly market. I still visit even though I've moved away, I take my younger kids there and we buy bird seeds and feed hundreds of pigeons and the swans at the moat. We shopped at the supermarket, although when it closed it was a Co-op, Sommerfields, (A South West Bristol company0 had long disappeared. I hope you made it into the Cathedral to see the moving clock and visit the wonderful steps up into the room where the rectors met. Lovely Cathedral, amazing area. Enjoy yourselves. Great film, as was Hot Fuzz of course.
Thank you! It really was beautiful!
I love your alternative view of Wells. I’m a fan of Wells and Hot Fuzz, but hadn’t made the connection between the two.
We spent a whole week near Wells in 2017, staying in a little cottage in Wookey Hole, and I still feel like I want to go back and explore more. There is so much to see and do. We walked around Priddy and Blagdon (I have ancestors from there), we visited Glastonbury and the Cheddar Gorge. We did not visit the Wookey Hole caves, they just seemed too touristy.
I'm glad you said that - I hadn't made the connection either! We used to go to Wells when I was a child because we lived in Bristol and it wasn't too far for a day out, but the times I've seen that film and never noticed!
We also used to go to Wookey Hole sometimes too, and apparently it's even more touristy now than it was in the 80s. I always preferred Cheddar.
I remember Wookey Hole in about1950, back then they did give very low key tours of the caves to small groups of people. It was nothing like it is now.
Ok but seriously watch Hot Fuzz AT LEAST 3 times and see if you still feel that way 😂
But Wookey Hole is wonderfully, eccentrically touristy. Where another family-oriented attraction might have Disney or Dr Seuss characters scattered around the place, at Wookey Hole they just invent their own - strange teddy bears, policemen and pirates, weird inaccurate dinosaur statues and the "Witch of Wookey Hole". Signs use their own original fonts. The whole thing has a rather vintage circus feel to it, which isn't surprising as the caves and nearby Wookey Hole Hotel are owned by the circus family of the late Jerry Cottle.
I haven't gone down the caves, but stayed in the hotel. It's fine, like a modern Premier Inn except you can open the windows in the rooms, and the building has a witch's hat on top!
This is so cool!! Adding Wells to my list specifically for the Hot Fuzz stuff. Lock me up, I'm a slasher! I must be stopped! A slasher... of prices!
The libertine was also filmed at Wells Somerset.
I am from the states! I was in Uk and got Wells and Wales mixed up! Also UK smallest city and England smallest city mixed up! Smallest UK city is St David’s west Wales! So without doing research and based on little info I went to St David’s thinking the movie was filmed there! It wasn’t! I should really have done more research! Great video especially as unlike me you went to the correct location!
I love Hot Fuzz ! Me and my wife we watched it like 1000 times :) Thank you for this breakdown ! Great stuff !
I arranged an office Christmas Event about 10 years ago, we went to Wokey Hole during the day and then stayed in the Swan Hotel Wells overnight with dinner.
I was actually in the film, sort of! Was visiting and going to walk through archway from Bishops Palace when stopped with a few others. Asked to wait, so was behind archway, while scene was being shot. Much later heard Timothy Dalton - big crush, was in film (which haven't seen) . Was right miffed didn't see him filming.
I went to Wells last year based on your recommendation - it really is a cool place! Thanks very much! If you go back again, you do need to go to the Cathedral - scenes from Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves were filmed there. It's lovely.
Such a fun video! Hot Fuzz is one of my favorite movies!
Love it !!! Wells is such a lovely place. I live not too far away, about 5 miles as the crow flies between Wells and Bath.
Somerset is such a great county and I feel lucky to have grown up here with places like Bath, Wells, Glastonbury, Cheddar, Frome etc. Hope you get to explore more. Guessing you'll be checking out Bath next ??🤔 😊
I had to click on this video because we are going to Wells next week! I have been anxious to see the cathedral for a long time! Unfortunately I haven’t seen Hot Fuzz, so the filming locations part of the video didn’t ring any bells (pardon the pun!)… but it was great to see this wonderful city through your eyes! Cheers! XX Dara
As we have come to expect from two lovely people great filming and expect dialogue
My wife and I have been visiting Wells during our summer holidays off and on for over 30 years, well before Hot Fuzz. The bench where Simon Pegg sat is normally situated right next to the church I think, and is where we used to sit down with our kids to eat our sandwiches. We were last there on 8th June and will definitely go again the next time we are in Somerset. Lovely place.
I went there the other day for the first time, the food in the market is beautiful
Just want too say I love watching your videos 👍👍
Such a beautiful town and the weathers been amazing. See it doesn't always rain in the UK hahaha.
*city
Total myth it rains all the time in the Uk. Especially the South West Of England in the Summer, it is very often Sunny and dry,
Wells is a little gem of a place - “England’s smallest city”. The cathedral is masterpiece of medieval engineering and gothic art - it’s genuinely unique, and the easily walkable city is a jewel box of quirky features and architectural styles including Vicar’s Close, reputedly the oldest intact, in use, medieval street in Europe. If you have Bath or Bristol on your itinerary, take an extra day (it’s only a short drive from both) and don’t miss it.
Aaw I love Somerset and Wells. Such a quaint place x
I've lived jn England all my 61 years and never visited Wells ,it looks beautiful, hope you had a nice time there .
Hope you can visit Wells again and check out Vicar’s Close. I think it’s the oldest purely residential street in Europe. It’s real but almost feels like a film set!
We were there recently and were lucky that there were loads of swans right near the drawbridge as we were crossing the moat! They were very inquisitive.
Swans, and you are Pen; what a coincidence.
This looks really cool. Love the Cornetto trilogy but have never visited Wells. Have been to a couple of Shaun of the Dead locations in London and also the house from Pegg/Wright/Frost sitcom Spaced. I’ll have to make some plans to visit.
The Bishop of Bath and Wells is also known from the second season of Blackadder.
I can't help but think of that episode when I hear that title! Those portraits seemed quiet respectable but not as entertaining!
I love how tourists explore more of the UK than we do who have spent our whole lives here. I guess we forget what’s on our own door step.
It is a beautiful country.
It's the same everywhere you go, in any part of the world. The locals rarely go exploring. In a weird way, it ends up being that tourists, who've only visited a country once or twice, have actually been to more places and know more of the history than people from that country. 😂 Every country has it's beauty.
Back when I was a kid, farmers would let you camp in their fields, so family holidays were a matter of touring different areas of the country. Wells and the country around there was one area we covered.
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@Rob M . I will point out you are only speaking for yourself. Millions staycation including my wife and I, and we visit these places. Try getting off the internet and explore for yourself.
When you get up North, I Hope you visit Newcastle. I live near the Angel of the North (or Flight of the Navigator! 😆). Go see Newcastle's Quayside with it's 7 bridges. Lots of good places to eat and drink down there. Also, try Northumberland, it has the most castles of any county in England. I recommend Alnwick Castle (featured in at least 1 Harry Potter), as well as Bamburgh castle, both stunning! Happy travels folks!
Every time you mention the Bishop, I have to say "The baby eating Bishop of Bath & Wells". Thank you Blackadder 🤣
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Great video....loving your adventures 😊
Hi, my husband Tim is fairly sure that it was him you met in St. Cuthberts churchyard and told you where the exact place they filmed the falling spire. He has a Yorkshire accent.
Great video guys never been there but I have a few of the cast members autographs as I collect them is my hobby xx
I gre up close to the Mendips and also spent many years caving there so visited Wells regularly. Mainly to get caving gear from bat products which is just round the corner from what used to be Somerfields.
I have spent many of the previous 44 years caving on Mendip and often came down to Wells on a Sunday morning. (only if I hadn't over indulged in the Hunter's the night before)
ahhh youve inspired me to watch hot fuzz again!!!
Thank you, really enjoying your videos. I'm in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Not sure if you have been to our area but there is a lot to see here. :)
Our friends live in Newcastle. So, we ended up spending time with them and not making a proper video. We would like to come back to do more and make a video.
At least you didn't burst into the advert song, "Just one Cornetto, give it to me".
Hot Fuzz is the gift that keeps on giving. So many hidden jokes.
OMG. "Hot Fuzz" is my favorite movie. And I think it is my good luck charm. I was grinding a whole weekend to prepare for a groupt interview with a company, and suddenly had a very bad feeling about the company and decided to cancel. There was something about the owner I did NOT like. So I cancelled and instead of finishing getting ready, I went to see "Hot Fuzz". Six months later, the owner embezzled all the funds, the place closed down, and a bunch of people didn't get their last paycheck! "STEP BACK OR THE GINGERNUT GETS IT." "CRUSTY JUGGLERS!!!"
Wells is lovely, Cheddar is not too far from there, its where they make Cheddar Cheese, you can pay to tour the caves and see the cheese maturing in them. There is also an open top tour bus that takes you into a valley which explains how it was formed
I was going to mention Cheddar but you beat me to it.
Nearby to Cheddar Gorge? The natural wonder, not the activity.
@@patrickholt2270 there is a cheese tasting shop there, so realistically you CAN gorge in the gorge on….gorge ous cheese!
@@patrickholt2270 lol, there is a fish and chip shop that sells the most delicious fish and chips right at the start of the village, so I suppose you can do the activity too ;D
And Wookey. Wookey hole isn't far either
I like your nod to the Cornetto trilogy in the thumbnail 👍
Thank you! We love the movies.
Was expecting a mention of Vicars Close. That really is a walk through history
I loved watching this. I am really glad to see you on tour in the UK and choosing places which mean something to you. Can't wait for the next episode!
Blackadder II has the Bishop of Bath and Wells too
You will see Wells cathedral in an upcoming Netflix sci-fi show called The Three Body Problem. Some of the crew stayed in the Swan hotel while building the sets.
Love the bells.
It's not often you get to hear them there normally muffled because people from the big cities that have moved into Wells complain that the bells wakes them up to early during the weekends.
Fantastic!
This has made me want to visit Wells again, haven’t been for years and it’s such a beautiful town (City -kkk because it’s got a Cathedral)
@cameronpaul Not all British places with cathedrals are cities e.g. Brecon.
It’s actually a myth that a place needs a cathedral to be a city. To be a city, you just need to be on the list of cities.
I love watching your travels around my little country. I call it little because I once visited the US and went on a road trip. I drove a big circle from San Francisco to Sacramento, Reno, Vegas, Grand Canyon, Death Valley, across to LA then back up the Coast road to San Francisco. It was awesome. Took me 4 weeks with all the stops and sightseeing. America is huge in comparison to the uk.
It reminds me of something I once heard someone say, “Americans think 100 years is a long time and the British think 100 miles is a long way”. 😁
I love that you two are Americans exploring the UK! My husband and I are here doing the same! I’ve been getting a lot of trip ideas from you both!
the sound of church bells is a quinissentialy sound of England so ancient
It was very cool. We just had to record around it a lot at first.
This is great, i love seeing the actual locations from Hot Fuzz - and The Rocky Horror Picture Show video was great too. I appreciate the effort you've taken to edit in shots from the actual film - it's a nice editing job you've done. Enjoying these UK videos.
Just down the road from Cheddar where Cheddar Cheese comes from :-)
You must be the first visitors to video in Wells and not include Europe's oldest occupied residential street: Vicar's Close, built between 1330 and 1430. My youngest son attended senior school at Wells Cathedral School, which was founded in 909 AD. His dorm house was built in the 16th century. A very interesting little city. Only St David's in Wales is smaller, with its church founded in the late 500s, when David was Bishop of Menevia.
It wasn't i hot fuzz
You must go to Lichfield and it's cathedral and Stratford upon avon
The St Cuthberts "save the roof" thing was because a section of the church spire fell onto the path below during storm Eustace in February 2022.
City has a different meaning in England. To qualify as such a town needs either a cathedral or a royal charter. Wells is the smallest city in England, the smallest city in the UK is St David's in Wales.
You didnt the place of the scene where a bit of the church roof injured Timothy Dalton. Wells is a very beautiful place.
Love Wells, its so quaint. I hope you got to check out Vicars' close behind the cathedral? It's like stepping back in time.
Love the UK tour. Lacock and Castle Combe in Wiltshire are the perfect nearby villages for you to visit!! They've filmed so much in two tiny places - Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, Downton Abbey, Stardust and War Horse to name but a few!!!
Love Hot Fuzz (and the others in the trilogy) so great to see all the filming locations. Great fun - thank you x
I'm so pleased that you have had good weather in our beautiful country. Great videos keep it up.
Looks like a nice place, i have never been here, have to say i've been enjoying your videos and the editing of these filming locations so well done! look forward to seeing the rest of your journey around England & the UK.
Great video, I recently visited and made a similar video, stayed at the hotel which features in the film Hot Fuzz 👍
Thanks for an excellent walk through Wells - It dawned on me while watching that I live 60 miles away in Exeter and have never visited! It's definitely going on my day trip list.
If you get the chance go to Warwick castle
your memories for scenes/locations is incredible
Wells is the smallest city in England, but not Britain. That is St David's in Wales.
Where are you planning on visiting next on your journey? Gloucester has Harry Potter, Doctor Who and many more.
Been to Wells many times. Love it. You are not far from Glastonbury, you should check it out walking down the high st is like nowhere else it’s like it’s stuck in the 60s.
Brilliant video - love it! I live about an hour away from Wells and had to go there (and drag my wife along) just to have my photo taken at all the locations! The residents must be used to it by now. Can't wait for the next location! Keep up the great work guys.
Wells makes me think of "The Bishop of Bath and Wells" appearance in a Blackadder episode.
I love you two 😂
Thank you, Lesley!
I've rung Wells Cathedral bells. Heaviest ring of 10 bells in the world.
Also Dunster and the castle
Simply LOVING these vlogs of your UK Tour 👍
Maybe on your travels you could stop at a Toby Carvery (pub/restaurant) for a traditional English Sunday Roast - although they do them every day of the week. Also with a massive Yorkshire Pudding
Sounds great! Thank you so much for watching!
Hi guys thanks for coming to wells if only I knew you guys were down I would of bought you a pint of cider ( hard cider )
Ive just watched this and by synchronicity I'm going to Wells (on the bus) later today 17/6/2022.
I haven't seen that film. I don't watch movies much. But Wells is a charming town,technically a city as you say,because its got the Cathedral which is stunning and well worth a visit.
Wells bells!!
It's so cool you were matching shots from the movie as well
I went to wells in 2020 for a visit and I didn’t even realise it was where the filmed hot fuzz. My bad would of been cool to see the locations. Hope your enjoying your visit in the UK perfect weather this week.
Very beautiful 🥰
Loved the video. Why don't you guys move over here, you know you wanna 😁🤣
Are you going to Bath? If you do, try a Sally Lunn's historical bun 😋 Clotted cream
You should go to look around some stately home.
The lady is Carol basins twin
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Hey great vlog this one ... I went to Wells few years ago lovely lovely place to go too
I was born on exactly the same day as Nick Frost. (I mean the same year as well.) I send him a Tweet every birthday but he’s never responded. I guess fame does that!
Wells is beautiful but you must come to Frome , it’s 31 minutes from wells 🙏
I've been subscribed for a few months now and I just love the attention to detail, I really like these films and the fact you guys know all about it, is just icing on the cake, from the snack reviews to travelling the whole UK, I've enjoyed every moment.
p.s I would love it if you did come back like said in the end, however I've grown to like you guys and your channel for how you guys are, so wholesome.
So incredible. 🎬
You should checkout the Adam Buxton Podcast from the actor who played Tim Messenger, it's very entertaining and ideal for those long car journeys. I'm enjoying your tour of Britain, good stuff.