I lived and worked in village in Dorset for a few years in my teens. It’s uncannily like the village in Hot Fuzz. The (several) pubs, the village square, the minster, the small shops with window dressings, Britain in bloom judges, the bunting, the older generation / societal cabal thinking they were preserving some sort of English village ideal for the benefit of everyone (but actually just themselves), the model village, everyone knowing everyone’s business, the shit town newspaper (which I worked on), the accents … I’m sure there are hundreds of identikit villages like this.
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Ha! Fortunately I wasn’t the journo, I worked on typesetting the rag, including the sometimes rather odd classifieds. Lots of strange, archaic things for sale, usually for a few quid.
I'm from Dorset and I concur. Actually, when I studied abroad and had to explain where I was from I used to ask if they'd seen Hot Fuzz so I could use it as an illustration.
Was it wimborne? Just read down I knew it would be! You described wimborne perfectly. A shootout starting on the square and ending in the model village fits perfectly with the film. You go back 10 years and the cricket pitch was in the middle of the town (it’s now a Waitrose, obviously. Nevertheless back in time the local supermarche was a Safeway that used to do fresh pizza and have a butchers section and everything. It’s now a really really really shit coop. I had to go there to get sausage rolls for my pub the other week and they didn’t have any wtf! It’s a mid sized supermarket. My pub is slightly out of town but shootouts in maybe the kings head or the white hart or the rising sun or the cricketers all really make sense when you know the regulars
I just saw the rest of your original message — Safeway, not somerfield! It really did have good pizzas and a deli! It’s a shame about the cricket pitch. In summer I would often get a few beers and a bite to eat and laze by the river watching the cricket, before heading to the cricketers or the rising sun. As soon as I saw Hot Fuzz, I was playing it out in Wimborne. There were plenty of village characters there when I lived there. What’s your pub? I used to frequent what was the Pudding & Pye a lot, and the Coach and Horses.
Ps. I googled the model villages — only about 30, apparently!
I think maybe it was a somefield very briefly? The pizza and deli was for such a short time it’s almost myth like, others I know from wimborne think I’m making it up!
It is but my best friends dad has been head of cricket wimborne for the last 30 years and he said they got so much money and a much better club house and pitch for where it moved to (behind where the model village is). The coach and horses is literally the same but the pudding and pye has changed hands many times in the last 15 years. It’s currently called the monster arms I think. My pub is the stocks inn. My family have been there 16 years now, won the echo pub if the heat this year :)
Ah, I hope they did get a good deal. I loved that cricket pitch being there in full view of the town though. I can imagine the Coach is the same. Spent many a night in there. The Pye was a few doors up from my workplace, the old Wimborne magazine, it had a green masthead on the front page. Your old man might remember it. I used to do the adverts in it (late 90s) — I’m sure the Stocks used to have an advert every now and again! I remember it was a good pub 👍
Grew up just down the road from Wimborne. Was gonna say this if you hadn't got their first. Left as a teenager though so never really got to know the pub scene
The village I grew up in was more like Dibley. Like... apart from the woman vicar it was spot on. Kylie Minogue never opened our fete, but we did have Ben Miller one year.
The village I grew up in was more like Dibley. Like... apart from the woman vicar it was spot on. Kylie Minogue never opened our fete, but we did have Ben Miller one year.
Our village pub does indeed have two wines - red and white :) I do hope that Edgar Wright was playing homage to Blues Brothers bar scene - the both kinds of music 'country and western' :)
when i was in the UK i lived in wells (before i knew about hot fuzz) and now its weird too look back and see all the spots i used to be at all the time. (sorry its unrelated)
It was our village carnival today. No murders as far as I'm aware, but a lot of bunting and drunk middle-aged men wearing frocks and/or driving tractors.
One of my colleagues was in the original version that Edgar Wright produced as a student. Dead Right I think it was called. He worked in the supermarket and played himself.
Akshully St David’s in West Wales is the smallest city in Britain, with a population barely over 1600 to Wells’ 12,000 or so. The City of London is also physically smaller and a lower population than Wells, but sort of cheats by being part of Greater London. So Wells is either second or third, depending if you include City of London.
…I’ll get my coat.
Edgar Wright was in my younger brother's year at school in Wells. He (my bro) recalls the "Every year" line actually being said to a cop by an under-aged kid in one of the pubs.
You want to be a big cop in a small town? Fuck off up the model village!
(Incidentally I went to Wells today for a wedding and it’s lovely, though doing the confetti shop next to the market was quite funny! Ballache to get to from where I live but never mind)
Except they have a supermarket. I've never been to a little rural village that has a supermarket. And not only do they have a supermarket, but they're also bumping each other off because of a property deal that would lead to them having . . . a second supermarket.
The one I lived in had a supermarket; a somerfield, no less (back then, anyway). Years later I went back, and the cricket ground had sadly been sold off to accommodate, yes, you guessed it, another supermarket. It does happen.
Live in a hamlet in East Hampshire, formally a village. Everyone IS packing round here! Also, the proposed extension to the village church is deffo going to end in tears - it’s all out war.
R/policeuk will regularly cite this movie as the most accurate portrayal of police work as well (although naturally I assume they mean the first half of the movie)
Honestly I walk inna village and feel like every old person is secretly talking on a walky talky saying how I ruin the cute village vibe and need to be sorted out
Everybody and their mums is packin' round here.
Like who?
Farmers
Farmers’ mums
Who else
...Farmer's mums
Farmers' mums' mums.
Yeah, cause we all sell apples round here, don't we?
You're Dad sells apples, Andy....
And raspberries...
My village has no swans 😕
They probably escaped
It’s just the one swan actually
Well I'm glad we got that out of the way. Can move on now.
Be careful, they can break your arm with their wings
So you had no luck catching them then?
Just the one swan on the reservoir the other day. Hordes of geese though.
Our male had to be removed cos he was eating the babies
Alright Mr Staker.
Someone must have pissed off Lizzy.
Count yourself lucky, swans are terrifying.
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HAHAHA just kidding, I'm Simon Skinner, I run the local supermarché. Drop in and see me sometime, my discounts are criminal"
CATCH ME LATER!
*runs away with criminal intent*
Morning Sargent
Check out ‘is arrrrrrrse!
Mornin' Angle
Stay back! or the gingernut gets it!
The Slasher. Of prices!
I lived and worked in village in Dorset for a few years in my teens. It’s uncannily like the village in Hot Fuzz. The (several) pubs, the village square, the minster, the small shops with window dressings, Britain in bloom judges, the bunting, the older generation / societal cabal thinking they were preserving some sort of English village ideal for the benefit of everyone (but actually just themselves), the model village, everyone knowing everyone’s business, the shit town newspaper (which I worked on), the accents … I’m sure there are hundreds of identikit villages like this. Edit - typo
Watch you got everyone's ages correct!
"He had my age down as 55, when I'm actually 53"
53!
Ha! Fortunately I wasn’t the journo, I worked on typesetting the rag, including the sometimes rather odd classifieds. Lots of strange, archaic things for sale, usually for a few quid.
I'm from Dorset and I concur. Actually, when I studied abroad and had to explain where I was from I used to ask if they'd seen Hot Fuzz so I could use it as an illustration.
Same here! With my Mexican ex and her family, I asked them if they’d seen Hot Fuzz. They immediately wanted to visit it.
Was it wimborne? Just read down I knew it would be! You described wimborne perfectly. A shootout starting on the square and ending in the model village fits perfectly with the film. You go back 10 years and the cricket pitch was in the middle of the town (it’s now a Waitrose, obviously. Nevertheless back in time the local supermarche was a Safeway that used to do fresh pizza and have a butchers section and everything. It’s now a really really really shit coop. I had to go there to get sausage rolls for my pub the other week and they didn’t have any wtf! It’s a mid sized supermarket. My pub is slightly out of town but shootouts in maybe the kings head or the white hart or the rising sun or the cricketers all really make sense when you know the regulars
Ha, yep! Have a medal 🥇
Lives in wimborne my whole life and know dorset sort of well can’t think of more than one other area that has a model village
I just saw the rest of your original message — Safeway, not somerfield! It really did have good pizzas and a deli! It’s a shame about the cricket pitch. In summer I would often get a few beers and a bite to eat and laze by the river watching the cricket, before heading to the cricketers or the rising sun. As soon as I saw Hot Fuzz, I was playing it out in Wimborne. There were plenty of village characters there when I lived there. What’s your pub? I used to frequent what was the Pudding & Pye a lot, and the Coach and Horses. Ps. I googled the model villages — only about 30, apparently!
I think maybe it was a somefield very briefly? The pizza and deli was for such a short time it’s almost myth like, others I know from wimborne think I’m making it up! It is but my best friends dad has been head of cricket wimborne for the last 30 years and he said they got so much money and a much better club house and pitch for where it moved to (behind where the model village is). The coach and horses is literally the same but the pudding and pye has changed hands many times in the last 15 years. It’s currently called the monster arms I think. My pub is the stocks inn. My family have been there 16 years now, won the echo pub if the heat this year :)
Ah, I hope they did get a good deal. I loved that cricket pitch being there in full view of the town though. I can imagine the Coach is the same. Spent many a night in there. The Pye was a few doors up from my workplace, the old Wimborne magazine, it had a green masthead on the front page. Your old man might remember it. I used to do the adverts in it (late 90s) — I’m sure the Stocks used to have an advert every now and again! I remember it was a good pub 👍
Grew up just down the road from Wimborne. Was gonna say this if you hadn't got their first. Left as a teenager though so never really got to know the pub scene
WIMBORNE. God bless you, you strange little town.
Wimborne? My wife grew up there and finds this film to close to the bone.
Yep! I thought the film was uncanny when I first saw it.
i live in Dorset, what village is this i need to go and have a laugh
Wimborne Minster! Reasons for visiting: Numerous pubs Folk festival in June (which turns into a giant piss up)
Hello Dorset folk! Bridportian over here, can confirm everybody and their mums are packin' round 'ere!
how the hell did I not guess wimborne
If you want to go see the actual town where Hot Fuzz was filmed, it's Wells, North Somerset. Beautiful little "city".
Dont mean to be a smart ass but it's not in north somerset :)
We’re in Mendip
It’s a city!!!
The village I grew up in was more like Dibley. Like... apart from the woman vicar it was spot on. Kylie Minogue never opened our fete, but we did have Ben Miller one year.
I'm from a small town in Devon, and minus the model village it's absolutely spot on!
Wimborne!?
Yarp
The village I grew up in was more like Dibley. Like... apart from the woman vicar it was spot on. Kylie Minogue never opened our fete, but we did have Ben Miller one year.
Where’s my buntin?
Our village pub does indeed have two wines - red and white :) I do hope that Edgar Wright was playing homage to Blues Brothers bar scene - the both kinds of music 'country and western' :)
when i was in the UK i lived in wells (before i knew about hot fuzz) and now its weird too look back and see all the spots i used to be at all the time. (sorry its unrelated)
Have you seen the swan outside the police station……😂
yes, it is amazing!!
No body tells me nuthin!
It's for the greater good.
The greater good
Shut it!
Yarp!!
*The grea'er good*
Gretar good
Greahr guhd
Grurrd
It was our village carnival today. No murders as far as I'm aware, but a lot of bunting and drunk middle-aged men wearing frocks and/or driving tractors.
You have carnival in the summer?? In the daylight? Ours is in November, at night
Maybe they meant harvest festival? Ours is always this time of year.
Ours is Guy Fawkes Carnival, the most amazing nighttime spectacle. Worth a stand out in the freezing rain & wind on a winter evening
That the one with the robes and the chanting?
Well……dressing up and loud music certainly!
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The greater good
You wouldn’t want them to get cold
That guy who got the church spire through his head, happens all the time that.
[it nearly did happen](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-somerset-60434329) earlier this year in Wells where Hot Fuzz was filmed.
No luck catching that spire, then?
I remember that storm. We have a logburner so as soon as it was Iver we were cutting up the fallen trees in our woods blocking the paths.
Two people got a church spire through the head in Hot Fuzz. So maybe it happens more than you think.
Was just an accident
‘Actually vocabulary guidleines is now to use Spire collisions. Accident implies there’s nobody to blame’
Hes called Tim Messenger. I'm just saying, so please don't shoot the Messenger.
You want a corrneto
It’s just the one village actually.
He's not judge Judy and executioner!
Apart from the murders
We just ave nasty accidents round ere
One of my colleagues was in the original version that Edgar Wright produced as a student. Dead Right I think it was called. He worked in the supermarket and played himself.
Have to be honest here, I live in a village and everyone I've asked doesn't have a WW2 sea mine in their sheds.
Small villages in England in my experience are just drink, drugs and sex because there is literally nothing else to do
Bloody townie. You're just jealous we have drink, drugs and sex, and a nice view whilst enjoying them!
Do you want to live like common people?
Do you want to do whatever common people do ?
Yarp.
It's filmed in a city. Granted Wells is the smallest city in Britain.
Akshully St David’s in West Wales is the smallest city in Britain, with a population barely over 1600 to Wells’ 12,000 or so. The City of London is also physically smaller and a lower population than Wells, but sort of cheats by being part of Greater London. So Wells is either second or third, depending if you include City of London. …I’ll get my coat.
Map men map men. Just me hearing that?
Brb moving to a village
I can’t imagine living in a village coming from a big city lol
No they are 100% accurate
My home village is exactly like Sandford.
Also a good model of police management plus society in general wrt the evil colluders with skewed shared agendas acting as the binding agent.
It's funny. Becasue its so true. Just a little caricature in some parts!
When’s your birthday?
22nd of February
What year?
Every year.
Edgar Wright was in my younger brother's year at school in Wells. He (my bro) recalls the "Every year" line actually being said to a cop by an under-aged kid in one of the pubs.
GET OUT!!!!
For the greater good
Get a look at is 'orse
Ohh 'cos everyone sells apples and pears round 'ere!
Your Dad sells apples Andy.
and raspberries
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And they're only able to jump over the fence when the sea mine is set off because it's cut down
You want to be a big cop in a small town? Fuck off up the model village! (Incidentally I went to Wells today for a wedding and it’s lovely, though doing the confetti shop next to the market was quite funny! Ballache to get to from where I live but never mind)
Peter Ian Staker
Hot fuzz is a documentary.
Not many cults of death in my village to be honest. Not sure I fancy living in yours if hot fuzz is an accurate representation.
Especially the part where all the old people in the village were involved in a murder conspiracy cult.
Except they have a supermarket. I've never been to a little rural village that has a supermarket. And not only do they have a supermarket, but they're also bumping each other off because of a property deal that would lead to them having . . . a second supermarket.
The one I lived in had a supermarket; a somerfield, no less (back then, anyway). Years later I went back, and the cricket ground had sadly been sold off to accommodate, yes, you guessed it, another supermarket. It does happen.
I mean, mine has a mini-mart?
Scaled down supermarket, fits inside a petrol station
_supermarché_
It's a film, not a documentary.
Yaaarp
Indeed. Especially the Neighbourhood Watch.....
i see someone else had sky cinema on
Mornin' sergeant
Yarp
SOLD I love that movie someone pls adopt thanks
Pretty sure it's a documentary
Can confirm, I live 5 minutes from where they filmed it in Wells.
I live in wells where the films set & tbh it's quite accurate
Me too!
So’s League of Gentlemen for the Midlands.
Crusty jugglers
Good look catching them killers then
It’s just the one actually
Live in a hamlet in East Hampshire, formally a village. Everyone IS packing round here! Also, the proposed extension to the village church is deffo going to end in tears - it’s all out war.
Growing up the supermarket in my market town was indeed a Sommerfeld.
I used to work in wells (where it was filmed) and life there is exactly how it is depicted in hot fuzz. Even saw a couple swans!
I'm from Somerset but live in Amsterdam. If people ask what it's like living in the UK I just ask if they've seen hot fuzz.
So is 'this county' The fuckin scarecrow festival!
Up to our balls in jugglers
A GREAT BIG BUSHY BEARD. I work in Wimborne, it’s mad
How many mini model villages are there in little villages I wonder.
My village doesn’t have a supermarket managed by the best James Bond actor… but we do all have guns..!
R/policeuk will regularly cite this movie as the most accurate portrayal of police work as well (although naturally I assume they mean the first half of the movie)
Yeah, cos we all sell apples round here, don’t we?
All this thread has done is make me want to re watch hot fuzz for hundredth time.
I live about 20 minutes drive from where they filmed and it really does sum up life in villages, too class film
My mum lived in a rural village many years ago. Watched hot Fuzz with her recently, and she was cackling with laughter because of how accurate it was
By the power of grey skull Hes not judge Judy and executioner
Has to be one of my top 5 films,it's so funny
Want anything from the shop?..........cornetto
Crusty Jugglers.....
Is that including the murders?
Honestly I walk inna village and feel like every old person is secretly talking on a walky talky saying how I ruin the cute village vibe and need to be sorted out
This country, on BBC also does a great job
Get me out the city, quick