Pinewood Film Studios & Black Park

Black Park is adjacent to Pinewood Film Studios and has been used as an outdoor location for many film and television productions.

The woods and lake featured prominently in the Hammer horror films from the late 1950s to the 1970s, including: The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), The Brides of Dracula (1960), The Curse of the Werewolf (1961), Dracula Prince of Darkness (1966) and Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970).[7] In these films the location was often used to represent Transylvania. The park has also been used in the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), where it was used for a night car chase (actually set in Switzerland and featuring Bond's Aston Martin DB5), and Casino Royale (2006). Other films featuring Black Park include Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960), several Carry On films, Fahrenheit 451 (1966), the Monty Python film And Now for Something Completely Different (1971), Bugsy Malone (1976), Wombling Free (1977), Hawk the Slayer (1980), Batman (1989), Sleepy Hollow (1999), the Harry Potter film series, Eden Lake (2008), Robin Hood (2010), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), 47 Ronin (2013),[8] Cinderella (2015), The Death of Stalin (2017), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), Jurassic World Dominion (2022) and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024).

For television, Black Park, together with its lake, was used extensively in location filming for the Doctor Who stories Full Circle (1980),[9] State of Decay (1980) and The Visitation (1982).[10] Dressed with fake cobwebs, it was also used for the early Blake's 7 episode 'The Web' (1978).[11] Prior to these, in 1974 it depicted the planet Retha in The Full Circle, an episode in the first series of Space 1999.[12] Recently, it used in the Star Wars series Andor.[13]