The Thursday Murder Club on Netflix was filmed at Shepperton Studios in Surrey, and on location in Reading, Hemel Hempstead, Little Missenden, Borehamwood, Aldbury and Slough.
At Coopers Chase, a grand seaside retirement community in Kent, Elizabeth (Helen Mirren) solves cold case murders in the jigsaw room with the help of Thursday Murder Club Ron (Pierce Brosnan) and Ibrahim (Ben Kingsley).
With former member Penny (Susan Kirkby) now in the hospice wing, Elizabeth is quick to bring retired nurse Joyce (Celia Imrie) on board to lend her expertise. When a real murder takes place, they join forces with PC Donna De Freitas (Naomi Ackie) to investigate.
If you’ve read Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club novels then you’ll know the story. Though Home Alone director Chris Columbus has made a few stylistic changes for the Netflix film...
The Thursday Murder Club Filming Locations
Adapted from the first Richard Osman book set in a Kent seaside town, The Thursday Murder Club filming locations include Englefield House, Gaddesden Place, The Red Lion pub, Aldbury Village Hall, St Mark’s Church, Slough Ice Arena, and Shepperton Studios.
Here’s where to find The Thursday Murder Club filming locations throughout the film, as the Coopers Chase retirement home residents investigate.
The Thursday Murder Club Locations
Coopers Chase
In the Richard Osman book, Coopers Chase retirement village is in Kent, but the adaptation was actually filmed in Berkshire and Hertfordshire.
The exterior filming location for Coopers Chase in Netflix’s The Thursday Murder Club is Englefield House near Reading.
It gives the movie its setting for those views of Coopers Chase across rolling hills, and shots of the retirees around the grounds. Look out for it in the guided tour at the start, and the scene where Joyce gathers the Thursday Murder Club to announce that there’s been a real murder.
The Elizabethan mansion is a privately owned home, and not open to the public – though Englefield’s gardens are open to the public on Mondays.
Visitors can pay for admission on the day, to tour the woodland garden, kitchen garden grotto and children’s garden – complete with swings, slides and hidden water jets.
But not to worry. Close at hand in the local village, you’ll find Englefield Stores and Tea Room offering a chance to indulge in the local atmosphere.
Coopers Chase Interiors
Meanwhile, interior shots of Coopers Chase were filmed over in Hertfordshire at Gaddesden Place, near Hemel Hempstead.
It was used for the library scenes, the dining room and the swimming pool where Ron’s aquarobics class is rudely interrupted. Again, it’s not open to the public – but you’ll find it onscreen in a long list of British crime and mystery dramas like Jonathan Creek, Hustle, Lewis and Foyle’s War.
Though sadly the jigsaw room and residents’ apartments were constructed just for the Netflix film.
The Red Lion
Red Lion, Little Missenden. Peter, CC BY-SA 2.0
The Thursday Murder Club’s Red Lion pub location is in Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire. The Red Lion is about an hour away from Reading, where most of the other filming locations are found.
We see it in the Richard Osman Netflix film when Ian Ventham (David Tennant) and Bogdan (Henry Lloyd-Hughes) formulate a plot to take on Tony Curran (Geoff Bell) and Coopers Chase.
Fairhaven Village
Aldbury. Rob Farrow, CC BY-SA 2.0
Netflix’s Fairhaven location in The Thursday Murder Club is Aldbury, first seen with the coach pulling up on Station Road. While Aldbury is already a quintessential Hertfordshire village, the production actually brought a few upgrades to the community.
“They were a legacy from the filming. When they came in, they changed a lot of things in the village to make it look more authentic. So all those white posts were left behind for us... They were fantastic.”
Ray Warren, Vice Chair, Aldbury Parish Council, BBC
Fairhaven Police Station
Village Hall, Aldbury. Ian Petticrew, CC BY-SA 2.0
The Thursday Murder Club police station is really Aldbury Village Hall. In the 2025 Netflix movie, Joyce and Elizabeth talk their way in to meet with PC de Freitas (Naomi Ackie).
Of course, the signage and police cars were added specially for the production to transform the quaint village building.
Ian Ventham’s House
The filming location for Ian Ventham’s house in The Thursday Murder Club is a private residential property on Theobald Street near Borehamwood in Hertfordshire.
You can see this modern-looking home when the investigation comes to Ian Ventham.
Fairhaven Church
St Mark’s Church is in the Englefield Estate beside Englefield House.
Built in the 12th Century, extended to include Englefield Chapel in the 16th Century, and remodelled in the Victorian Revival style in the mid-19th Century, St Mark’s is still in regular use as a parish church.
Though of course, it’s the graveyard that’s the star of the show in The Thursday Murder Club. Elizabeth is threatened as she investigates the cemetery in spooky, moonlit surroundings.
It appears again during The Thursday Murder Club’s protest scene, as the residents rally to chase off Ian Ventham’s diggers.
Ice Rink
The Thursday Murder Club’s Dancing on Ice training session scenes were filmed at an ice rink in Slough, Berkshire. Former boxer Jason (Tom Ellis) is seen at Everyone Active’s Slough Ice Arena, a skating rink where the whole family can learn to ice skate – no celebrity status required.
In the movie, DCI Chris Hudson (Daniel Mays) interviews Ron’s son about his connections to Bobby Tanner and Tony Curran.
London Streets
Chatham Dockyard. Main Gate Road, Chatham Dockyard by Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0
The London street that The Thursday Murder Club’s Donna and Elizabeth drive through is part of the Historic Dockyard Chatham, as confirmed by Kent Film Office. In the sequence, they drive through market stalls on a narrow lane at rapid pace as Elizabeth reveals her MI6 past.
And if you want to step into the real filming locations of The Thursday Murder Club, you’ll be pleased to know that the Historic Dockyard Chatham is open to visitors.
But don’t expect to see Thorny Blooms in the vicinity. Once they step out of the car, it’s off to another location.
Thorny Blooms
Elizabeth and Donna de Freitas go to Thorny Blooms to interview florist (Richard E Grant), who has inherited Coopers Chase following the spate of murders. In a change of location from the book, the Netflix adaptation’s florist shop location is in London.
But in fact, this scene was filmed at Shepperton Studios in Surrey.