Lincolnshire: Producer pushes county as top film location

Tom Hanks during filming of The Da Vinci Code in Lincoln in 2005

A film producer is encouraging television and film companies to use Lincolnshire as a location.

Heather Greenwood has worked on documentary films including Bros: After the Screaming and Class of 92.

She said the area has many stunning locations and wants the "film-friendly" people and businesses responsible for them to contact her.

Lincolnshire has previously hosted productions of Napoleon, Peterloo, The Da Vinci Code, Strike and Wild Bill.

Ms Greenwood, who grew up in Boston and has received a Bafta nomination for her work on Bros: After the Screaming, told BBC Radio Lincolnshire: "We know [Lincolnshire] is amazing, let's show the rest of the world."

She said the area needed a "returnable series" like Broadchurch, so fans would flock to see the locations and make them tourist attractions.

'Filming boom'

Ms Greenwood said she wanted to link people and local businesses up through her production company, Keal Productions and its new project Location Lincs.

"I want to find film-friendly people [with relevant locations] who are open to broadcasters and location managers to come and have a look.

"I met the mayor of Wainfleet and asked, 'If Netflix came with Bridgerton, how open are you to it?'

"Wainfleet has a street that could double-up as a Southwark Street."

Barkham Street in Wainfleet could double as London, said Heather Greenwood

In the latest filming coup for Lincolnshire, director Ridley Scott used Lincoln Cathedral for one of the scenes in Napoleon.

And in 2017 Mike Leigh's Peterloo was shot in Lincoln.

Several productions, including Peterloo, have used Lincoln as a location

Ms Greenwood said more productions would come if the industry knew what the area has to offer and that Lincolnshire should push itself forward.

"A lot of production companies want to get into the UK. There's going to be a boom," she said.

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