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The majority of the film, set in the fictional village of Studley Constable, was filmed at Mapledurham on the A4074 in Oxfordshire and features the village church, as well as Mapledurham Watermill and Mapledurham House, used for a manor house where Winston Churchill is taken. [12]
A convinced Nazi, and a convicted con-man prior to his enlistment, Preston is viewed with disgust by Steiner, Devlin, and their fellow commandos. After Steiner, Neumannn, and Devlin escape, Preston is lynched inside the village's Roman Catholic Church by a mentally-ill resident of Studley Constable.
He also meets and falls in love with Molly Prior, a young girl from the village of Studley Constable. He subsequently saves her from a would-be rapist and introduces her to the poetry of Antoine Ó Raifteiri. Soon after, they make love. In later novels, Devlin thinks about Molly from time to time.
Studley Constable Jack Higgins: The Eagle Has Landed (novel) Studley Constable is a village in Norfolk where German soldiers attempt to kidnap Winston Churchill. T ; Tacticum Terry Pratchett: Discworld: Tacticum is an abandoned fortress city in the Klatchian desert after General Tacticus. The city was left by the inhabitants when the wind ...
Burton Park, Constable Burton: House: Early 17th century: 13 February 1967 ... Church of St Mary: Studley Park, Lindrick with Studley Royal and Fountains: Church ...
It is located in the grounds of Studley Royal Park at Fountains Abbey, in North Yorkshire, England. Burges was commissioned by the 1st Marquess of Ripon to build the church as a memorial church to Frederick Grantham Vyner, his brother-in-law. It is one of two such churches, the other being the Church of Christ the Consoler at Skelton-on-Ure.
Col. Kurt Steiner – highly decorated Fallschirmjager officer who survived the events that occurred at Studley Constable. Maj. Horst Berger – a thuggish Gestapo officer who has survived terrible burns to the side of his face. Brig. Dougal Munro – Head of Section D of the SOE, who was assigned to hush up events at Studley Constable.
Villagers are likely to have used the church at the abbey; since 1540, and until the new parish church was built at Derry Hill in 1840, they had to travel to Bremhill for church services. A small red-brick Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built at the north end of Studley Lane in 1855, and a stone schoolroom added in 1896; the chapel remains in use.