Locations!

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Clevedon Court

, a house built in the 1700s and a National Trust site. It is fairly apt for what we want and similar to the manor house used in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. I imagine that the interior could be used for the scene in which the apple is poisoned. We 

would definitely have to email and suck up to them ask permission to film there.

This is Tyntesfield Estate, another National Trust site which is in Wraxall. Again this is fairly similar to the style we want, but more gothic. When I went there a few years ago, te rooms werefaily dark and gloomy and would probably set a good atmosphere to film in.

Antony House in Cornwall. The location used in the recent Alice in 

Wonderland film. A place in Bristol also has a house that looks a bit like this.

There are several churches/graveyards we could use for the scene in which the man is mourning his wife and remembering their relationship and how he murdered her. The cemetery in Portishead is really gothic and shadowed by a lot of big old trees and would be perfect, so we could use that, however there is a busy road right beside it. There are churches in both Walton and Weston in Gordano, which are both really close to Portishead. Each of those villages have really old houses which would be useful for the era the opening is set in as there are scenes in the street. There are many of places in Clevedon and Bristol which would also be really awesome. 

Update: There are some ruins in Portishead! And they're easily accesable! They would be really useful for the scene in which we establish the couple's relationship. Additionally there is a twisty lightning struck treee nearby which looks typical of the scenery in Tim Burton films.

The Portishead/ Weston in Gordano Ruins

This is what Weston - in - Gordano looks like when it snows. Note the old fashioned lampost, lack of road markings and old houses.