Can i visit eastenders

About BT TV. Watch Now. TV Guide. Where is EastEnders filmed? Is Walford a real place? Where is it on the London Tube map? Your guide to where the BBC One soap is filmed and whether you can visit the set. By BT. It was reported in that filming was set to transfer to the famous Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire on a new set — but it was then confirmed in that EastEnders would remain at Elstree for at least another four years, with the set undergoing another rebuild. Filming continued throughout this period, meaning that scaffolding was often seen on the set, with some storylines — such as the Queen Vic fire — reportedly written to accommodate this.

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Alternatively, it might be closer to the Olympic Park, which shares the square's postcode of E A third option would be Fassett Square in Dalston, whose terraces are said to be the inspiration for the fictional square. All well and good, but where is the actual bricks-and-mortar Albert Square in which the soap is shot?

It'll come as no surprise to hear that it's an artificial film set. Perhaps less expected is that this bastion of East End culture isn't in London at all, but Hertfordshire. The set can be found at the BBC's Elstree studios not actually in Elstree, but neighbouring Borehamwood; and not to be confused with the similarly named Elstree Studios just down the road, where Strictly is filmed, also not in Elstree.

If you'd like to visit, it's a simple 20 minute train ride from St Pancras on the Thameslink line. Five minutes from the station, the entire square has been built in the kind of details necessary to convince an HD audience. These are no empty facades, but real buildings with depth, as can be seen in Google satellite view. The word 'secret' gets bandied about in articles like this with blithe abandon.

But the one place from which you can glimpse the famous Queen Vic pub without entering the studios is truly hidden away. Indeed, I lived a minute walk away for eight years before I found it.