Black Park

Map showing the location of Black Park within Buckinghamshire.

Black Park is a Country Park in Wexham, Buckinghamshire, England to the north of the A412 road between Slough and Iver Heath. It is managed by Buckinghamshire County Council^[1]. Covering 530 acres (214 ha) of woodland, heathland and grassland, some areas of which are designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest^[2], the park includes an avenue of mature pine trees, an orienteering course, a lake (dug in the 18th century as a reservior for a local farmer)^{[citation needed]} with a lakeside cafe.

Black Park is adjacent to Pinewood Film Studios and has been used as an outdoor location for many film and television productions. The woods and lake featured prominently in the Hammer Horror films from the late 1950s to the 1970s^[3]. In these films the location was often used to represent Transylvania. The park has also been used in film productions such as the James Bond films Goldfinger, where it was used for a night car chase scene featuring Bond's Aston Martin DB5, and Casino Royale , several Carry On films, the Monty Python film And Now For Something Completely Different, Wombling Free, Batman, Sleepy Hollow, the Harry Potter film series and Eden Lake.