Talk:A Touch of Frost (TV series)
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[edit] Location of Denton
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- The series is set in the town of Denton, which from the geographical references in the series appears to be in South Yorkshire.
How come, therefore, that none of the characters (especially not Frost, nor his chief superintendent) have Yorkshire accents? Everyone speaks as if they're from the south of England, or the Midlands at most. --Thoughtcat 19:50, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
- It used to say "Oxfordshire", with a note to the effect that there is in fact a Denton in Oxforshire, though the name is a coincidence. Denton's postcodes (in the series) start with DN, which is a real postcode area covering part of South Yorkshire, but this is a coincidence too (or rather, a mistake, as the producers admitted after people started pointing it out) - DN in real life refers to Doncaster, DN in the programme is clearly Denton. This does not mean that Denton is Doncaster, and indeed it quite obviously isn't. --Bonalaw 12:16, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
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- I've been watching old episodes to check this out. In the early episode "Stranger in the Dark", briefing meetings take place in front of a large map of what is without any doubt Swindon. The Swindon location is further borne out in later episodes with shots of places I recognized such as the shopping malls, certain office blocks, the areas near the railway and so on. Also references to visiting Oxford and in one specific episode it is "20 miles to Reading along the M4." On the grounds of this, I've added a comment in the main article.MarkThomas 19:53, 26 February 2006 (UTC)