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| | The television comedy 'The League of Gentlemen' is filmed in Hadfield, a small village near Glossop in North Derbyshire. |
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The leader of High Peak Borough Council, Councillor John Hallsworth, lives in Hadfield and represents Hadfield St Andrews ward.
John Garlick ran the Anchor inn and Jonathan Shaw ran the Spinners' Arms in Hadfield in 1835. | | | PRINT THIS PAGE | | | View a printable version of this page. | |  |
| | This multi-award winning programme delves into the disturbingly dark and distinctly bizarre behaviour of the most peculiar ‘locals’ on this planet.
The League of Gentlemen is written by Jeremy Dyson and CO-written and performed by Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith.
The comedy is set in the village of Royston Vasey - but, in Derbyshire, we know it better as the otherwise sleepy village of Hadfield.
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The one main street in Hadfield had looked unchanged since the 1950s and with one of the shopfronts proclaiming Brigadoon, the casual visitor could have been forgiven for wondering when the next wake-up call was due.
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All was to change when a roving BBC location researcher wandered into town, running out of time to find a small, quiet northern town that could pass as a quirky, isolated, fictional town where visitors were frowned upon and murky secrets dwelt behind every door.
One look at the unsuspecting streets of Hadfield and Royston Vasey was born - the TV filming circus duly rolled into town.
Shopfronts were transformed - the old fishmonger's became a veterinary surgery and the empty estate agent found new life as a dating agency.
The little handicraft emporium was transformed into a joke shop one day and a video rental shop a week later.
For the resident enduring the mundane daily drive home, multiple double takes were in order and wry smiles the reaction to the temporary excitement.
Eventually a circus big-top and small funfair were set up nearby and locals were invited along to populate the attraction.
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