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London's most popular locations revealed

The BA London Eye is the site most used by filmmakers, with Battersea Park not too far behind.

Aug 11 2005

Film London today released a list of London's most popular film locations, and the hugely popular BA London Eye came out on top.

The tourist favourite has amassed over 200 days worth of filming in the last year alone, and was a key location in recently released 'The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse' as well as numerous TV shows.

Number two was Battersea Park in Wandsworth, recently used in the forthcoming Brit-flicks 'Click' and 'Stoned'.

Further down the list Bethnal Green Town Hall appears at number five, having recently been used in Guy Ritchie's 'Revolver' and Anthony Minghella's 'Breaking and Entering', while way down at number nine Building 1000 in Newham proved popular, having appeared in 'Goal!' and the forthcoming Ant and Dec pic 'Alien Autopsy'.

Full list:

1. BA London Eye, Lambeth.
2. Battersea Park, Wandsworth.
3. Millennium Bridge, Corporation of London.
4. Potters Field Park, Southwark.
5. Bethnal Green Town Hall, Tower Hamlets.
6. Woolwich Island Business Centre, Greenwich.
7. Kingsland School, Hackney.
8. Crystal Palace Park, Bromley.
9. Building 1000, Newham.
10. Tower Bridge, Corporation of London.

In total, 10,683 shooting days took place in the capital last year, with an average of 30 film crews working on any one day.

And if you're wondering where the London Underground and London's nine Royal Park spaces are, as collections of locations, they are ineligible for the list.

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