Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou5g.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5g!jhc From: jhc@hou5g.UUCP (Jonathan Clark) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Actual location of "The Village" Message-ID: <521@hou5g.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 12:21:29 EST Article-I.D.: hou5g.521 Posted: Mon Feb 11 12:21:29 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Feb-85 06:39:57 EST Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 23 [] 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 [NAC]!hou5g!jhc -- Jonathan Clark [NAC]!hou5g!jhc