Snow White and the Huntsman 2012
Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
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Snow White and the Huntsman
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exteriors - landscape
Managed by Buckinghamshire County Council and covering 530 acres (214 ha) of woodland, heathland and grassland, some areas of which are designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest, the park includes an avenue of mature pine trees, an orienteering course, a lake (supposedly dug in the 18th century as a reservior for a local farmer) with a lakeside cafe.
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exteriors - landscape
With views south into Little Langdale, and north to Great Langdale and Langdale Pikes, Blea Tarn lies off a single track road in the high pass between the two valleys.
Serene on a fine day, when the weather closes in it can be bleak, but access is relatively easy, although ice (and snow) in winter can sometimes render the road impassable, particularly from the north via Great Langdale.
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exteriors - landscape | transport
128 cares of predominantly coniferous woodland with good access and a promontory overlooking a clearing in the valley.
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exteriors - landscape
540 acres of ancient woodland pasture with magnificent beech pollards, classified as Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and a National Nature Reserve (NNR). It is also designated as an internationally important Special Area of Conservation (SAC), so filming is generally restricted to certain areas. A film friendly location, the staff on hand have all the experience necessary to manage every type or size of shoot.
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exteriors - landscape
Cathedral Quarry is in fact is a network of inter-linked blue slate quarries above Little
Langdale near Ambleside, Cumbria. The system is best known ‘by walkers for it’s spectacular
main chamber, which still stands forty feet in height, and is nicely lit by two windows
off the main quarry.
For a sizeable unit, access is difficult for both equipment and crew / cast, the quarry being situated at the very end of a long single track road between high stone walls with very few passing spaces.
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exteriors - landscape
Cwm Du (Dark Valley) is one of my favourite places in the Beacons. Steep crags prevent sheep from accessing the rare arctic-alpine plants such as purple saxifrage and roseroot, which thrive along with mixed woodland where orchids and anemones flourish.
The National Nature Reserve, which is administered by the Countryside Council for Wales, was once part of an ancient hunting and farming forest, known as Fforest Fawr, the remnants of which can be seen in the scrub woodland and scattered hawthorn on the lower slopes.
In addition to the flora, there are relatively rare birds such as peregrine falcons, ring ouzels and ravens. Sixteen species of butterfly have also been recorded in the area.
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exteriors - landscape
Craig-Cerrig-gleisiad a Fan Frynych lies in the heart of the Brecon Beacons National Park, and dramatically illustrates - on a huge scale - the glacial processes that carved the shape of this fantastic landscape. The reserve itself is an upland area of steep sided crags, sharp escarpments, huge lumpy moraines and a large shady north-facing cwm. These steep slopes are welcome refuges for communities of arctic-alpine plants and some rare birds, while there are also a variety of smaller habitats within the upland.
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An area of open heathland adjacent Frensham Little Pond (q.v.) which is owned by The National Trust, but is effectively a different property, being leased and managed by Waverley Borough Council.
Badly burnt in an extensive brush fire in 2010 which destroyed all the groundcover and much of the wildlife, the common had begun to recover in earnest by the summer of 2011.
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Owned and managed by the National Trust, Frensham Little Pond is man-made and was formed when a dam was built in 1246. It was used to supply fish to the Bishop of Winchester's court when visiting Farnham Castle.
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Former brick kiln quarries long since reclaimed by nature, and now much used by local mountain bikers for its steep sided slopes - difficult to service, but it can be done - as evidenced by the location's credits
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Less well known than it's next door neighbour, Black Park Country Park (q.v.), Langley is a a completely different proposition for the film-maker.
Right on Pinewood's doorstep, it offers acres of open grassland glades, stands of wellingtonia, an arboretum, and ancient, deciduous, woodland pasture.
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Without doubt one of the most beautiful beaches in Wales, but pretty inaccessible for a large film crew. On Snow White and the Huntsman we build a 120' ramp from the end of the path that leads down onto the beach as it had been washed away but successive tides.
Indeed, for a few hours either side of high tide there is no beach to film on, so timing and schedule is of the essence.
However, the jagged rock formations sticking out of the golden sands at low tide are both dramatic and graphic enough to attract any film-maker.
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exteriors - landscape
Originally three smaller tarns formed in the last ice age, James Garth Marshall (1802–1873) the Member of Parliament for Leeds, gained full possession of all of the land after an enclosure act of 1862 and then embarked on a series of landscape improvements, including construction of a dam at Low Tarn that created the larger tarn that is there today.
The area is managed by the National Trust and was designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1965.
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community / public buildings | religion
St Bartholomew the Great was established in 1123 by Rahere a courtier and favourite of King Henry I.
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A sizeable area of broadleaf woodland pasture / forest within which there are many ancient oaks, some of which may date back more than 700 years. Little known except by locals, the location includes one particularly magnificent specimen known as the Elephant Oak. Bears Rails is managed woodland, but left very much in its original state, and is a conservation area of international importance designated SSSi.
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A mountain pass between the Duddon Valley and Little Langdale with a single-track motor road over the pass, one of the steepest roads in England, with gradients up to 1 in 3. Beyond Wrynose is Hardknott Pass and if you continue you come down into Eskdale.
At the top of the Wrynose Pass is the Three Shire Stone, marking the meeting point of the historic counties of Cumberland, Lancashire and Westmorland.
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