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Some of London’s most famous buildings and parks are the stars of Film London’s Top 20 Film Locations: including Tower Bridge, Battersea Park and London Zoo.

Also on the list are some of London’s best-kept secret film locations including Bethnal Green Town Hall (Revolver), the Freemason’s Hall – which appeared in The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy - and Finsbury Park, as well as some unusual new entries to the list which have capitalised on the recent rise in location filming in London.

Location, Location, Location

Topping Film London’s location list, with over 200 days of filming in the past year, was the BA London Eye a key location for Doctor Who (in the very first episode of the smash hit new series, being used as a transmitter to awaken the Auton mannequins to terrorise the capital’s streets for the first time since Jon Pertwee was behind the controls of the TARDIS!) and in the The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse as well as numerous other TV programmes.

In second place was Battersea Park in Wandsworth which has featured in the last year in the forthcoming feature films Click and Stoned; and third was the Millennium Bridge, a host to TV hits including BBC TVs Secret Service/MI5 drama Spooks and the series Dirty Filthy Love

The full list* shapes up like this:

1. BA London Eye, Lambeth - for: The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse and The Apprentice

2. Battersea Park, Wandsworth- for:
Click and Stoned

3. Millennium Bridge, Corporation of London
- for: Dirty Filthy Love and Spooks

4. Potters Field Park - Southwark, for: Doctor Who and Little Britain.

5. Bethnal Green Town Hall, Tower Hamlets - for: Revolver and Breaking and Entering

6. Woolwich Island Business Centre, Greenwich - for: Meera Syal's Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee, Spooks and MIT (Murder Investigation Team)

7. Kingsland School, Hackney - for: Murder City and Ahead of the Class

8. Crystal Palace Park, Bromley - for: Peep Show and a Zutons promo. video

9. Building 1000, Newham
Goal - for: Alien Autopsy and Love and Other Disasters

10. Tower Bridge, Corporation of London - for: Inside Out, Back in Business and Spooks

11. Finsbury Park, Haringey

11. Farmiloe Building, Islington

13. London Zoo, Westminster

14. The Office, Islington

15. Bankside, Southwark

16. Cutty Sark Gardens, Greenwich

16. Somerset House, Westminster

16. Albury Drive, Pinner, Harrow

19. Hoxton Square, Hackney

20. Freemason’s Hall, Camden - for: The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy

20. Old Royal Naval College (ORNC), Greenwich

London’s hugely diverse cityscape attracts film-makers from all over the world. 10,683 shooting days took place in the capital last year; on average that is 30 crews filming on the streets of the city each day. This year many major feature films including Anthony Minghella’s Breaking and Entering, The Da Vinci Code, Basic Instinct 2 and Woody Allen’s new London project have all been shot in the capital.

*The list has been compiled and ranked using Film London’s locations and filming database and has been collated using a survey of London’s Boroughs and key London landmarks - based on feature film, television, advertising and pop promo. production from June 2004 to June 2005).

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