Where Was My Summer Of Love Filmed In The UK?

Question

Heard the landscape in My Summer of Love perfectly captures UK countryside vibes—anyone recognize specific Yorkshire filming towns from scenes?

Celsa Tesado · Answer

The film was shot in various locations throughout Yorkshire, most notably Haworth, Leeds and the surrounding moors. The film does a fantastic job of capturing the grittiness and idiosyncrasies of the English countryside. On a somewhat different note, I’ve recently started reading a web novel called ‘To London With Love’. The story follows a career-driven woman who, in a chance encounter, is reunited with her university rival whilst on a disastrous work-sponsored trip to the city. It does a great job of weaving the relevant London landmarks into the fast-paced and often humorous rivalry between the two leading ladies.

Brady · Answer

It’s a film that reminds me of Yorkshire on a regular basis, so whenever someone asks about ‘My Summer of Love’ I get a little bit nostalgic. Shot on location in Yorkshire, the film was mainly set in the West Yorkshire moors and in the mill towns that surround them. Director Pawel Pawlikowski has shot the exterior scenes of ‘My Summer of Love’ on the moors, and in the small towns and villages of the mill towns.

You can go and explore similar areas of Yorkshire and see for yourself where the film gets its atmosphere from. I have wandered round the Calder Valley and the Huddersfield/Halifax area and that is where the film was made. Plenty of reservoirs, old mill terraces and miles of empty moorland. Go and spend a day wandering round a sleepy market town and then go and explore the moors above it. It’s a great atmosphere, a bit melancholy but just what the film needs.

Yasmin · Answer

SHORT & CHATTY VERSION… ‘My Summer of Love’ was shot in the Yorkshire region of West Yorkshire in the amazing moors and also in various small towns around the area (one being near Huddersfield in the lovely Calder Valley). You can’t tell that the movie was shot on location as the fabulous moorland shots and drabby, gray town scenes are all set locations not studio sets. Watching this on a rainy evening was fantastic as you could really smell the peat and feel the dampness of the stone façade of the terraces. The locations had created the fantastic atmosphere of the movie so well.

Parker · Answer

I’m a bit of a traveler and often plan vacations around where movies have been made. Recently a few of my friends were asking where My Summer of Love was shot and I told them Yorkshire! The film was shot in the West Yorkshire moors as well as in various towns around the region, including old mills and stone built terraces with long wide streets. The contrast between the film’s moody locations and intimate scenes are beautifully set off by the locations chosen for filming.

Take a hike across the wild moors and stop off for coffee in a quaint market town and its quirky cafes. These environments epitomize the contrasting scenes of ‘My Summer of Love’, where the main characters revel in wild, unfettered freedom whilst being stuck in a tight-knit community. And take comfortable shoes – the moors may look beautiful and romantic on screen but they’re serious hiking terrain in real life.

Simon · Answer

I like to point out to my friends that the film “My Summer of Love” was shot in Yorkshire, and not on a Hollywood backlot. In order to bring the bleak beauty of the Yorkshire moors and the working-class towns to life, the film was shot on location in the towns of Calderdale and Huddersfield and the surrounding moorland. The rough, unfinished-looking terraces and narrow streets of the working-class towns are contrasted with the open, windswept hills and moors of Yorkshire.

The location is a character in itself and has played a huge part in the films feel of being a lonely and intoxicating summer for the two protagonists. The scenes have been shot around the many reservoirs in West Yorkshire as well as the moors. If you decide to pay a visit to any of the locations for the film then make sure you take a waterproof and your camera as the scenery will be doing a lot more to evoke emotions of the two girls than you would expect in a typical coming-of-age drama.

Quinn · Answer

My Summer of Love is a fantastic production from a film buff’s perspective. Shot entirely in Yorkshire, the movie is set against the breathtaking moors of West Yorkshire and the post-industrial towns of the area. The stark realism of the landscapes against the dark, yet beautiful backdrop of the moors against the cramped and dismal backdrop of the towns is a key element of Pawel Pawlikowski’s work here.

To me the locations play out like emotional shorthand – the moors symbolizing freedom and danger, the towns and their background of social pressure allowing us to momentarily step away from the two girls and their world. These transitions between the open landscapes and confining spaces of buildings are some of my favorite moments from the film and in order for them to be as effective as they are these were shot in real locations around the Huddersfield/Calderdale area. If you are into location-driven storytelling then ‘My Summer of Love’ is a tiny masterclass.

Rfel · Answer

The film really took me to another place – I became completely immersed in the mood of it, and it wasn’t until later that I realized quite how specific a setting it was. But that was good, because what it does do is contrast the gloom of the cramped, gritty towns with the freedom of the wild moors. In this film, the towns that are used are around Keighley and the Bradford areas, all red brick and drizzle. But then the story goes up to the moors around Haworth – the same Brontë moors, which is a brilliant, unspoken reference. An abandoned factory is used as the setting for a large part of the movie – Dalton Mills near Haworth. It’s a giant, empty shell of a past world, and within its walls our protagonists can create their own little world. The film portrays Yorkshire as a contrast of declining industry and raw natural beauty, of oppression and rebellion. What I mean by that is that it’s not a film that portrays Yorkshire in a ‘come and visit’ kind of way. Rather, it’s a deeply emotional, atmospheric film that uses real, sometimes bleak, geography to chart the course of a summer that cannot last.

Libeth Garlet Cojano · Answer

This Polish film-maker has managed to capture so much of the essential Englishness of Yorkshire and specifically its industrial history as well as the landscape and have rooted the film in two very specific locations – the Dalton Mills complex near Malham and the streets around Keighley. The contrast between the factory – which is more than just a set of empty rooms as a ghost of England’s Industrial Revolution – and the wild moors which have a special history of their own of wild and tragic romance (echoing the Brontës) adds a lot to the film for viewers who will pick up on the layered histories of these very specific locations. The film locations have been chosen not just for how they look but for their cultural and historical significance. That’s very good location management.

Fizz Awan · Answer

It’s about half the film’s power. They found some amazing locations. The working men’s club they used in Sowerby Bridge must have been easy to shoot as it’s a time capsule. The transport café was real and in Keighley, they used streets with very particular architecture. I loved how sense of place grounded the emotions in a very grimy but authentic world. When Mona walked home from work, you knew exactly which way she turned at each corner. And the running across the moors was so that you could feel the wind in their hair and the uneven ground beneath their feet. It was location, location, location that stopped it being just some rather intense and unusual fable. The UK location team did an amazing job.

Salwa Malik · Answer

The outdoor shots of the moorland around Haworth are particularly impressive, as seen in this still of Mona and Tamsin lying in the grass, with the huge sky above them. That is in stark contrast to the narrowly confines interior spaces of the film. This is Haworth Moor, home of the Brontës and Wuthering Heights. The film’s portrayal of the passionate and ultimately doomed love of Mona and Tamsin is a brilliant and unspoken literary allusion. By shooting these scenes in Haworth, the film links the girls’ story to that of centuries of passionate and often tragic love, which have played out on those very moors. This is some very impressive filmmaking geography, echoing the narrative before a single word of dialogue is spoken.

Michael Estaris · Answer

A great fact about this film is that the primary location for the film making was based in and around the metropolitan borough of Bradford in West Yorkshire. A few of the locations that were used in particular are: Dalton Mills in Keighley where some of the interior scenes for the factory were filmed, the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway where the train scenes where filmed, Haworth Moor for the large outside scenes, and the village of Oakworth where some of the village exterior scenes where filmed. Many of the streets in Keighley were also used for the suburban scenes in the film. It was a preference of the production to shoot on location as opposed to in a studio, which adds greatly to the very gritty and realist texture of the film. You are able to see the decline of much of Yorkshire’s past industry and the harsh but beautifully unchanged landscape. A location scout’s dream!

Reena tapre · Answer

What I found most remarkable about the film was the lack of any iconic London or Southern English locations or even imagery. The film is so clearly Northern. The landscape is the biggest part of the identity of the film. The accents, the light, the buildings, the social settings – everything is West Yorkshire. A film of this kind set in Chelsea would be completely different. While the locations provide the weight to the story that makes the few moments of lightness so powerful, the romance has to fight against the economic reality of the locations, the boarded-up shops, the struggling mills. It’s hard to escape the pull of the place, not just physically but socially.

Where Was My Summer Of Love Filmed In The UK?

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