Geek’s Guide to Britain: PUZZLEWOOD, speculative fiction’s universal forest
A magical woodland near the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, Puzzlewood will look super-familiar when you visit it. The reason for this is that it is an ancient adorable woodland within easy reach of Bristol and Cardiff, where a lot of BBC filming takes place. Whenever the Beeb needs to film something in a forest they just go here. More recently, the Star Wars movie did a lot of woodland shoots here and a lot of the forest/tree location they used are the same trees as in Merlin, Doctor Who, etc. IT’S THE SAME DAMN ROCKS. THESE ARE THE GENERIC MOSSY ROCKS. I just
Tolkien was known to have drawn on Puzzlewood for aesthetic inspiration.
Rowling grew up near-ish to it, and set a good portion of the Epic Harry Potter Camping Trip in the Forest of Dean; scenes from the movie were duly filmed in Puzzlewood.
So this is the Generic Forest. But fun for your own photo shoot! And within reasonable striking distance of Bristol and Cardiff.
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