Walmington-on-Sea

Walmington-on-Sea is a fictional seaside resort that is the setting of Dad's Army during the Second World War, including the BBC Television sitcom (1968-1977), the BBC Radio 4 series, and two feature films of 1971 and 2016.

Walmington-on-Sea is on the south coast of England which, following the fall of France and the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk, found itself on the front line against Hitler. It is situated in the border lands of East Sussex with Kent between the nearest large town Eastbourne — where George Mainwaring was educated at the local grammar school — to the west and Dymchurch and Folkestone to the east. It could be identified with Littleton-on-Sea just north of the Kent headland of Dungeness, but equally could be further west by Winchelsea near Rye, Sussex as the geography is left deliberately vague.

The series followed the adventures and mishaps of members of a fictional platoon of the Local Defence Volunteers to later be called the Home Guard — a (real) WWII volunteer army that was formed from those ineligible for conscription, (by age, minor physical inability, or occupation), to defend the United Kingdom from German invasion following the fall of France.

The Guildhall at Thetford became Walmington-on Sea's Town Hall
Thetford's Palace Cinema (now a bingo hall) doubled as Walmington's Empire Cinema
Several episodes were filmed at Nether Row in Thetford
Filming of "The Deadly Attachment" took place on Mill Lane in Thetford
Brandon railway station stood in for the station at Walmington-on-Sea
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