Russell's Water is a
hamlet about north of
Henley-on-Thames
Henley-on-Thames ( ) is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, northeast of Reading, west of Maidenhead, southeast of Oxford and west of London (by road), near the tripoint of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buc ...
in
South Oxfordshire. It is in the
Chiltern Hills
The Chiltern Hills is a chalk escarpment in England.
The area, northwest of London, covers stretching from Goring-on-Thames in the southwest to Hitchin in the northeast - across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, and Bedfordshire. ...
about above sea level. There is 20th-century and older housing, a village hall, an area of
common land called Russell's Water Common to the east and a large
duck pond. The pond featured in the 1968 film ''
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' is a 1968 musical-fantasy film directed by Ken Hughes with a screenplay co-written by Roald Dahl and Hughes, loosely based on Ian Fleming's novel '' Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car'' (1964). The film stars ...
'' and cast members
Adrian Hall and
Heather Ripley
Heather Ripley (born c. 1961) is a Scottish former actress. She is best known for the film '' Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' (1968), in which she played Jemima Potts.
Early life
Ripley was raised in Broughty Ferry, outside of Dundee, Scotland. Her fa ...
returned to the location for a TV documentary about the making of the film in 2004.
[''After They Were Famous: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'', 2004 TV Documentary(https://pro.imdb.com/title/tt0506830/)]
References
Hamlets in Oxfordshire
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