{"id":4856,"date":"2010-06-21T10:36:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T16:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=4856"},"modified":"2010-06-21T10:36:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T16:36:01","slug":"miss-marple-the-secret-of-chimneys-location-setting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/miss-marple-the-secret-of-chimneys-location-setting\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Marple – The Secret of Chimneys – Location \/ Setting … Hatfield House"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hatfield House\u00a0is the location used for the Miss Marple episode called The Secret of Chimneys<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Old Palace was the home of Elizabeth I when she was a young child. Elizabeth’s heir,\u00a0James I, traded the Old Palace and its grounds for Robert Cecil’s family home. Subsequently, Hatfield House was built by Robert Cecil, the first Earl of Salisbury. Today, the 7th Marquess and Marchioness of Salisbury call it home.<\/p>\n

Hatfield House, located north of London, is a huge estate which provides all sorts of beautiful scenery –\u00a0so important in portraying the feeling of\u00a0a British aristocratic settings. With a lake, formal gardens, topiaries, a church, cottages, houses, and of course, the beautiful mansion,\u00a0Hatfield House\u00a0must have seemed like\u00a0a dream-come-true for producers of this particular Miss Marple episode. And, of course, the house’s interior includes the exact type of furniture one expects from these period piece shows… plenty of chandeliers and tapestries, not to mention the beautiful furniture!<\/p>\n

Here is the location NOT<\/em><\/span><\/strong> used for the Miss Marple episode called The Secret of Chimneys<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

The setting is a Gothic mansion called Knebworth House in Stevenage<\/strong>, which is located 29 miles north of London. It has belonged to the Lytton family since 1490. At one time, it was the home of Edward Bulwer Lytton, a Victorian politician who was also a novelist and playwright. He is famous for the quote: “The pen is mightier than the sword”.<\/p>\n

Knebworth House has been used as the location \/ setting in many different television shows and movies, as well as a location for rock concerts. Here is a list of some of the other places you may have seen Knebworth House:<\/p>\n

Anastasia – 1956
\nThe Avengers, episode Invasion of the Earthmen – 1968
\nThe Big Sleep – 1978
\nThe Essential Mike Oldfield – 1980 – Remember the phenomenal music in the movie The Exorcist?!?
\nThe Great Muppet Caper – 1981
\nThe Shooting Party – 1985
\nBatman – 1989
\nLive at Knebworth – 1990
\nThe Canterville Ghost – 1996
\nThe Wings of the Dove – 1997
\nJane Eyre\u00a0– 1997
\nEyes Wide Shut – 1999
\nLed Zeppelin DVD – 2003
\nRobbie Williams Live at Knebworth – 2003
\nFoyle’s War, episode Enemy Fire – 2004
\nMarple, episode What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw – 2004
\nBatman Begins – 2005
\nJonathan Creek, episode The Grinning Man – 2009
\nThe King’s Speech – 2010 (Not yet released, stars Colin Firth)<\/p>\n

These are just a few of\u00a0the television, movie, documentary events that have been filmed at\u00a0the Knebworth House. I posted the events that might be of most interest to Cozy Mystery site<\/a> readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hatfield House\u00a0is the location used for the Miss Marple episode called The Secret of Chimneys: The Old Palace was the home of Elizabeth I when she was a young child. Elizabeth’s heir,\u00a0James I, traded the Old Palace and its grounds for Robert Cecil’s family home. Subsequently, Hatfield House was built by Robert Cecil, the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cozy-mystery-administrators-observations","7":"category-mystery-identity-of-mystery-author","8":"entry","9":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-1gk","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}