BBC Merlin Filming Locations

Our resident Research Geek gealach_ros was clever enough to track down Neath Abbey as the probable location for King Odin's castle in episode 202 The Once and Future Queen, and posted about it here. Thank you, hon! ♥

The Abbey is managed by Cadw - who have since been kind enough to confirm via email that our Merlin crew did indeed film there on 23 March 2009. Hurrah! So, I went to visit the site on the weekend.

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We may not know some of these details until the DVDs come out - with audio commentaries that happen to mention locations, if we're lucky! - but in the meantime...

The opening scenes of The Once and Future Queen showed King Odin grieving for his son in the vaulted crypt or undercroft of his castle. Does anyone have an idea of where the scene was filmed? A large empty vaulted space like that - with rather high ceilings - was very striking. My tentative working theory is a castle in Wales - perhaps Caerphilly? Wikipedia says that Cardiff Castle and Castell Coch have undercrofts, though I'm not aware of any filming happening in either - yet. I didn't see anything like this space at Pierrefonds - though naturally you can't get everywhere, so it may be part of what's left of the original medieval castle there.

Anyway, all ideas welcome, and I (or someone else!) can do a proper post once we know for sure. Thank you kindly!

P.S. I used to never be able to remember how to spell 'medieval', but it's just engraved in my mind now. See, it may be a kids show, but Merlin has taught me stuff.