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From: jhc@hou5g.UUCP (Jonathan Clark)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Actual location of "The Village"
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Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 12:21:29 EST
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Sorry to contradict, but the real location of The Village
(ie where the series was shot) was in a place called
Portmeirion, in North Wales (quite near Anglesey and
Snowdonia). The place was originally built as a giant folly
(hence the baroque combinations of architecture) and people
actually live and work (mostly commute) there. I think that
you have to pass a screening committee to be allowed to live
there, and it is definitely only for the rich. You can visit
it - it used to cost 4 pounds sterling to get in. Sometimes
you can see pottery in flash gift shops labelled Portmeirion
Pottery - it's the same place.
I believe that they used the real-life inhabitants of
Portmeirion as extras in the shooting of The Prisoner.

Now - as to the fictional location - my vote goes for North
Australia somewhere.

Jonathan Clark
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