Last month Bentley Productions, who produce the Midsomer Murders series for television, took over The Windmill pub for a day to shoot sequences for a forthcoming episode entitled Days of Misrule.
The pub, renamed the Calham Cross Inn, was taken over completely with sequences being shot inside as well as along the road in front. Inside the pub had been dressed for Christmas with decorations, holly and mistletoe everywhere. With police cars roaring up the road and John Nettles as Inspector Barnaby doing much the same in his Jaguar there was quite a lot of action going on. A barmaid arriving by bicycle and then sobbing in the arms of another lady was very intriguing – what was it all about?
Filming continued both outside and inside the pub until after dark when a further sequence was shot outside.
The episode is apparently being shown as a Christmas special so we will all have to wait to see the full story until it is transmitted much later in the year.