Locations Children of Earth, Day Three

 

Children of Earth: Day Three 

Broadcast 8 Jul 2009 

Still using Millennium Centre as the starting point. About the only area of the City I'm familiar with. 

Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff Bay   

This is the location where Johnson's team thought Torchwood was hiding. 

Will take 4 mins of walking to reach this, using the A4119. Head west towards Bute Place/A4119, turn left onto Bute Place and continue to follow the A4119. Turn right onto W Bute Street for 174 ft (take a measuring tool with you - or have a Ianto handy), and turn left onto Mount Stuart Arcade, after almost 200 ft you've reached your destination. 

Mount Stuart Square was created for dock workers to reside at, so they were close to their work, back in the 1800s, but over time and many years later, this area is also a very commercialised area of the city and has quickly become a placec for more upmarket residential properties, which look onto the main Square. 

I would imagine that dock workers probably wouldn't be able to afford to live there now. 

 

Canal Park (south gate), Butetown, Cardiff  

Canal Park has been used for Doctor Who episode Army of Ghosts in 2006. This was also the location in Adam after Jack had seen Gray and talked it through with Adam. It was also in this episode, where Rhys stole a laptop from a guy seated on a bench talking to Gwen. 

By Bus 

If you're using the 304 there should be a bus every 15 minutes. Although with Covid, you may need to wait a while longer. 

Catch the 304 at Llantwit Major, which makes 2 stops before its destination at Mount Stuart Square. Along this route you will pass the Cardiff Bay Police Station, in James Street, and the Cardiff Food Centre, both to the left of your journey. 

If you're going on foot, it's almost a straight line but takes a little longer to reach. 

Taking journey from the Millennium Centre, you're pretty much following the above destination for Mount Stuart Square, then turn left for 102 ft, then right for 0.2 miles, then left and your location will be on the right. 

 

AJ's Coffee House, 20 City Road, CF24 3DL Cardiff 

Not far from The Parade. Also, the place where Lois Habiba met Team Torchwood. 

It's quicker by car using the Central Link/A4234 route. 

Head out south-west on Bute Place/A470, and stay on this road for 0.2 miles. Turn right onto Hemingway Road. At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit. At that roundabout, take the 1st exit onto Central Link/A4234. Use the right lane to turn right onto Adam Street/A4160. Using the middle lane to turn slightly right onto Moira Terrace, turn left onto Glossop Road. Use the left lane again to turn slightly right onto City road/B4261. AJ's Coffee House is on the right. 

 

The Parade, Roath, Cardiff 

Not far from AJ's Coffee House. 

The fastest route is by car via the Central Link/A4234 and takes 7 minutes. 

Take the Central Link/A4234 and A4160 to The Parade and stay on this road for 1.8 miles. Turn right onto The Parade. 

 

Tower Hill, Penarth 

In the street at the back of the house, Alice makes her escape with her son Stephen, and brandishes a gun she keeps hidden from her son. 

By car this takes 11 minutes and is 3.5 miles from Cardiff Millennium Centre.

Taking the Cardiff Bay Link road/A4232, A4055 and the A4160 to Tower Hill in Penarth takes 9 minutes or 3.4 miles. Turn right onto Tower Hill for 305 ft and you've reached your location 

Using Public Transport will take you considerably longer. 

If you catch the bus (8) from University Hospital of Wales, there will be 9 stops before it reaches Pentre Street. Get off here and walk to Grangetown which will take about 6 minutes. Catch the Penarth train which will take 7 minutes to reach Penarth and will stop twice along the way. Get off at Penarth and walk about 0.4 miles or 7 mins and you will reach your destination. 

Check the Cardiff Bus and Transport for Wales travel times though. As with the current climate, some of those destinations may have a reduced travel timetable. 

 

James Street, Cardiff 

This is one of the streets that Clem McDonald walked along, and while a woman waited at the lights to cross the street, Clem helped himself to her purse. 

James Street is the location of the Cardiff Bay Police Station, which we mentioned further up on the locations trip - to your left along the journey to Canal Park. 

It will only take 4 minutes on foot. It's 0.2 miles away from Millennium Centre. 

Walk west towards Bute Place/A4119 for 118 feet. Again, you'll need a Ianto for the measurements!!!

Turn left onto Bute Place/A4119 and continue on this road for 0.2 miles. 

 

Maindee Police Station, Newport (Gwent Police, 81 Chepstow Road, Maindee, Newport NP19 8XD 

This route is the quickest by car using the M4 and takes less than half an hour to reach. Using public transport will get you there within the hour. It's a 16.2 miles journey. 

Setting off from Bute Place, Cardiff, take the A470 and Hemingway Road to Cardiff Bay Link Road/Eastern Bay Link Road/A4232 for 0.7 miles. Continue on this road to Rover Way for 0.8 miles. Follow Rover Way to the A4232 for 2 miles. Take the Eastern Avenue/A48, A48 (M) and M4 to Malpas Road/A4051 in Newport and take Exit 26 from the M4 for 11.2 miles. Continue on the Malpas Road/A4051 and take the B4591 to Chepstow Road/B4237 in Maindee for 1.5 miles. You've reached the Gwent Police Station. 

 

Ty Gwyn Crescent, Cyngoed, Cardiff 

This is the street that Jack Harkness made the call to John Frobisher about his family, and where John Frobisher broke the news that they had Jack's daughter and grandson. 

The fastest route is by car and takes 14 minutes and is 5.7 miles away from Millennium Centre. 

Take the Cardiff Bay Link Road/Eastern Bay Link Road/A4232, Rover Way, A4232 and Llanederyn Road to Bronwydd Avenue for 5.6 miles. Follow the Bronwydd Avenue to Ty-Gwyn Crescent for 0.1 miles. 

 

Shoe Lane, London 

The street where Jack stole the sports car, while dressed in civvies. 

Given the Covid restrictions at the moment, travelling into the City of London may not be a wise thing, and because of the restrictions to public transport, we're only going to add the directions for M4 only. 

However, this doesn't go as smoothly as there are also those blessed Tolls. Although, I wonder, if you pay to get into England, do you still need to pay to get out again??? I remember Portmadoc only ever having to pay one way, so long as you still had your ticket. Worth checking! 

So, from Millennium Centre to Shoe Lane, London, will take 3 hours and 16 minutes and is 153 miles using the M4. Make sure all your jabs are up to date and you've got your passport. 

Take the Cardiff Bay Link Road/Eastern Bay Link Road/A4232, Rover Way, A4232 and Eastern Avenue/A48 to A48 (M) for 7.5 miles. Follow the M4 to Great West Road/A4 in London for 137 miles or 2 hours and 19 minutes. Continue on the M4, taking the A40 to A4208 in City of London for 8.5 miles or 32 minutes. 

Shoe Lane has quite a bit of history, some of which dates back to 1224 when the Dominican Black Friars first came to London and took up residency at the Holborn end of Shoe Lane, opposite St Andrews Holborn. 

Shoe Lane was once known as Shoe Alley. It has no connection with shoes but some believe it was possibly named after the well called Showelle or Sho Well. Or it has some connection with the tract of land known as Shoeland Farm, and that the land resembled the shape of a shoe. Whatever the true identity of the name once was, it appears that the lane does date back to a time when some part of London was on agricultural land. 

 

Big Finish Reviews+ An Alien Werewolf in London by Matt Rabjohns

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What I always love about Alan Barnes's writing is every single character he writes is so much larger than life. You can trawl back through his many audio scripts for Big Finish and always locate really rich and funny characters, even in his darker edged stories. This story is not one of them! This story is just packed full of good fun and some amusing light relief. A chance to have a breather and a few good laughs. ​

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It sounds to me that every one of the cast is really enjoying being in this story. It’s actually quite a relief for one every now and then to get a release from the overall far darker and more mysterious Seventh Doctor stories. Some of Big Finish's more recent seventh Doctor plays have been very thickly laid with doom and universal peril that it can start to drag if done continuously without a break every now and then.

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In fact, every single story of the Mags trilogy has been a welcome break from the norm with Big Finish. It’s great to just relax and listen to a genuinely fun tale, but still with enough good action and peril so as not to make it a farce. ​

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Samuel Clemens direction is slick and the sound design and score of this story is also different, but good different. You end up with a story that is extremely easy to get into, whereas some of the deeper stories can be at times hard to take all at once. ​

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Sylvester McCoy does his usual thing of just being fantastic as the Doctor. His interacting with Ace and Mags instantly lifts the story too. It is also great whenever one gets to hear alien races or creatures that aren't necessarily evil used well within a story too. ​

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Sophie Aldred gets to have some good scenes where she deals with the fallout of falling in with a pair of Feratus. The Feratus are a wonderfully comically written pair of vampires, and particularly good is how Ace just seems to take what happens to her in her stride and doesn't become flustered. One is always happy to hear her consistent guts and ballsy attitude. It’s what has made Ace one of the most enduring companions ever in the show.

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It could easily become gratingly silly to always just have baddy aliens running amok in every story. The Sin Eater is a perfect example of this trait. The Sin Eater is a very interesting and engaging character. Shiloh Coke is really decent in the role.

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Jacob Collins Levy's performance as Rufus has to be applauded in this story. His character is definitely a bad un, but he's a really excruciatingly enjoyable bad un. His Australian accent is commendable and his villain is saturated with good humour and wit. He judges the role perfectly, so that he never once goes overboard into caricature or pantomime. And his demise is very stark and rather unpleasant to visualise at the story's climax.

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There may not be a hugely abundant level of original material within this story. One has heard or seen countless Werewolf movies that all share the same repetitive strains. What Alan Barnes does with his story though that most film writers don't do these days is at least makes his story massively listenable and plain good old fashioned cool. The story works so brilliantly as a light hearted reprieve in the midst of the darker stories as I’ve already said. ​

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In fact, yes, I would say this story's plot is very, very like a comic strip. Outlandish and knavish interactions with great characters. ​

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The other good point is in film and TV werewolf transformations always seem to look naff. So, the audio medium is a far better kind of medium to have where you can imagine the visuals and not be disappointed by weak effects. That's always going to be a favourable addition to the mix when an audio leaves you free to make your own pictures of the places where the story is set. And in this story, there are no dull characters and no over excessive re-use of all the dull as ditch water werewolf and vampire traits we get so bored with seeing in the movies and remakes of movies. Sometimes the B Movies are more fun and good to watch than the multimillion-pound mega films too. And that's exactly the category this story falls into too. The lovable B Movie type that is still ripe with so much going for it! ​

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But of all the elements on display within the story, my favourite thing of all from this is Mags. Jessica Martin really gets to shine as the Vulpanan. There are some great character moments for her along the way in this story which does nothing but make me like and root for her character more as the story progresses. I have thoroughly enjoyed this Mags trilogy that begun with The Monsters of Gokroth and The Moons of Vulpana. I must send out a hearty clap to Jessica for coming back to the role and showing us what superb extra life there is in her amazing character. And she does kind of achieve her mission at the last hurdle here. She has been seeking to overcome her monster side, and the climax comes as a satisfying outcome, if leaving just maybe the hint of chance that maybe her monster could come back if she’s not careful.

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Re-iterating: Sometimes every now and then having a story that doesn't take itself too seriously is good to flow away with. One is OK with universal impending doom but in between some of us revel in the chance for some comic relief. Yeah, the title of the story is tacky and corny but why not? Surely you can have a bit of good humour in every aspect of the story.

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 An Alien Werewolf in London is never ever going to be the most brilliant or world changing story in the whole universe, but its consistently entertaining and amusing in equal measure. And, at the end of the day, what more can one ask from a Doctor Who tale than that?!​

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Locations Children of Earth: Day One by DJ Forrest

Due to the Doctor’s heavy workload at the moment, and new wardrobe, I’ve taken up the reins of this Page for the time being.

Much of these locations are using Roald Dahl Plass as the starting point or Cardiff in general. Depending where you're located, you can use Satnav or other apps to locate your destination possibly quicker.

The Coal Exchange, Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff Bay

Has been located several times before so please look through past location Pages for this.

Hebron Hall, Cross Common Road, Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan, CF64 4YB

Hebron Hall was opened in 1983 as a Christian Centre, which is owned and administered by an independent, non-denominational charitable trust. It's located on the outskirts of Dinas Powys, in the Vale of Glamorgan.

It is four miles from Cardiff and within easy reach of the Brecon Beacons and the beaches and coastal towns along the South Wales coast as far as the Gower Peninsula. It boasts a conference Centre, Leisure Facilities, Care Home and Kings Court for Independent Living, and on Saturday 13th October 2018 hosts its Autumn Oasis Conference for ladies, running from 10am.

For filming purposes it acted as a Nursing Home in COE Day One for Clement McDonald

To find Hebron Hall, the website www.hebronhall.org advise not using a satnav for locations but rather the directions on their website.

How to get there:

Leave M4 at Junction 33, taking first exit at A4232 following signs for Airport and Barry. Pass slip road entrance to the Museum of Welsh Life and leave the dual carriageway after approx. 3 miles from Junction 33 at Culverhouse Cross interchange. Near top of slip road, use the centre lane (traffic lights in operation) and take third exit on to A4050 following signs for Airport and Barry. Travel straight across two sets of traffic lights which is the first of a series of roundabouts. Continue straight across each of four roundabouts. Ignore the turn off when you see sign for Dinas Powys on fourth roundabout.

At fifth roundabout take the first exit on to A4231 signposted Sully, Docks. At first roundabout (Lidl Store on RHS) go straight across. At next roundabout (McDonalds on RHS) take the first exit (left) onto A4055 following signs for Dinas Powys. After about 3/4 mile you will pass 30mph signs and the entrance to Cog Moors Waste Water Treatment works. After approx a further 1/2 mile Hebron Hall is signposted to the right. There is a filter lane to turn right off the A4055 and after approx 150 yards, turn sharp left at the Hebron Hall sign, travel another 50 yards and the entrance to Hebron Hall is on your right hand side.

If you are visiting, it's likely you will need to book in advance - for conferences and the like, I don't think you can visit at the drop of a hat.

To travel by train you would need the train destinations for Barry Island or Bridgend.

http://www.hebronhall.org/  

Greyfriars Road, Cardiff.

Filming: Children frozen to the spot in the street.

How to get there:

How to get there: By car via Central Link using the A4234, take Bute St to Lloyd George Avenue/A470, turn left onto Lloyd George Avenue/A470, Continue on Hemingway Road to Central Link/A4234, continue on Central Link/A4234 to Knox Road. Continue to Knox Road to Newport Road/A4161, turn left onto Newport Road/A4161 for three minutes and drive to Greyfriars Road.

High Street Cardiff, CF10. Gwen sees frozen children when at the cashpoint.

How to get there: By car follow Bute Street to Callaghan Square/A470 for five minutes. Take St Mary Street to Scott Road for five minutes, take Park Street and Westgate Street to Jones Court for 3 mins and you're there.

Roald Dahl Plass & Mermaid Quayside - regular place for filming - see other Locations Pages

Rupert Brooke Drive, (by No. 13), Newport, NP20 - Ianto's Sisters house.

How to get there:

Using the M4 and by car will take 27 mins as it's 17.9 miles.

Get onto the M4 from the A470, for 5.3 miles. Follow M4 to Glasllwch Cres/B4591 in Newport. Take exit 27 from M4 for 10.8 miles. Continue on the B4591. Take the B4240 to Rupert Brooke Drive for 1.9miles.

Gaer Infant and Nursery School, Melfort Road, Newport, Wales, NP20 3FP

School 1 - We Are Coming!

Day One & Day 2 - We Are Coming Tomorrow!

Do please note that this is a working school and therefore it will not be open to the general public outside of parents and children who attend the school. It's never a good idea to linger outside of school gates unless school is closed. Unless you enjoy rides in the back of police cars!!!

How to get there:

Take Bute St, Hemingway Road, and A4234 to Cardiff Bay Link Rd/Eastern Bay Link Rd/A4232 for five minutes. Continue on Cardiff Bay Link Road/Eastern Bay Link Road/A4232 to Rover Way for 2 mins. Get on Eastern Ave/A48 from Rover Way and A4232 for 8 mins. Follow Eastern Ave/A48, A48(M) and M4 to Glasllwch Cres/B4591 in Newport. Take exit 27 from M4 for 9 mins. Continue on B4591. Take B4240 to Melfort Road for 5 mins. You have arrived at location.

University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park Way, Cardiff, CF14 4XW

St Helen's Hospital

How to get there: 

Takes 17 minutes by car via Rover Way. Take Bute Street to Lloyd George Ave/A470 for 3 mins. Drive along Cardiff Bay Link Road/Eastern Bay Link Road/A4232, Rover Way, A4232 and Eastern Avenue/A48. Take exit M4 from Eastern Avenue/A48 for 14 mins.

Whitehall, Parliament Street, Westminster, London

The street is 0.4 miles long and runs through the City of Westminster. It is part of the A3212, a main road in Central London that leads towards Chelsea via the Houses of Parliament and Vauxhall Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehall

Frobisher and staff driving to work.

How to get there - By Car you'll be hit with Congestion charges of £8 and drive at a maximum speed of 4mph.

On foot - Londoners DO NOT walk anywhere - they travel by tube - everywhere.

So, for the quickest route if you do fancy walking (only tourists walk - apparently), it'll take you 16 minutes via Horse Guards Road and Victoria Street/A302. Be aware when walking as these directions don't take account of real world conditions.

Walk east on Victoria St/A302 towards Palmer Street. Turn left onto Storey's Gate. Turn left onto Birdcage Walk. Turn right onto Horse Guards Rd. Turn right towards Whitehall/A3212, turn right onto Whitehall/A3212.

National Park Visitor Centre, Libanus, Brecon, Powys, LD3 ER

http://www.breconbeacons.org/national-park-visitor-centre

Day One Scotland 1965

Filming took place on the roads surrounding the centre on the Brecons.

Referred to locally as the Mountain Centre, the Brecon Beacons National Park Visitor Centre is family friendly with a licensed Tea Room serving local beer or wine, plus teas, coffees and soft drinks too. It has an outdoor play area with a fantastic view of Pen Y Fan. It caters for all ages and has disabled and baby changing facilities with disabled access throughout.

How to get there:

It will take 1 hr going via A470 classed as the fastest route. Get onto the Cardiff Bay Link road/A4232 from Stuart Street for 3 mins and follow A4232 and A470 to Powys for 52 mins. Drive to Glan Tarrell for 4 mins and you've arrived at National Park Visitor Centre.

Check out their website for opening times of Info centre and tea rooms.

Quite fancy visiting it myself with the Weevil.

Horse Ferry Road, London

Driving to Thames House

How to get there:

It takes 5 minutes to get there by the 507 bus leaving from Strutton Ground - note a bus leaves here every 12 minutes. Or it'll take 8 minutes to walk. As we've already discovered that nobody walks these days, we'll give you the route anyway. Who knows, you might fancy putting one foot in front of another *shrugs*

On foot from Westminster - Walk south on Artillery Row/B323 towards Howick Place, continue following B323. At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Greycoat Place/B323. At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto Horseferry Road/B323.

By Bus taking the 507 from Strutton Ground (Stop SH), it takes you to Marsham Street (Stop NS). Get off here and walk for about a minute towards Horseferry Road and you're there.

Brangwyn Hall, Guildhall, Swansea, SA1 4PE

Opened in 1934, the Hall has provided facilities for functions, ceremonies and concerts and been a major cultural centre for Swansea. It's also a focal point for local government and justice. Doctor Who episodes filmed there were Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead as well as The Big Bang.

Brangwyn Hall takes its name from the artist Frank Brangwyn who created the famous panels destined for the House of Lords, which commemorated the First World War but were rejected because they were too colourful and spirited. So, they are displayed in the Hall instead.

In filming for Torchwood it was for the entrance to St Helen's Hospital.

How to get there: 

By car takes 4 minutes from Swansea itself. Head south-west towards Dynevor Place and continue on to B4290, go through 1 roundabout and you've reached your destination

Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, CF15 8DF

Kids froze on the zebra crossing in front of Rhys in a big white truck

Takes 15 mins via A470. Be aware that one part of the journey (*North Road/A470 may be closed at certain times or on certain days)

How to get there:

Follow A470 and B4262 to Park Road in Radyr for 17 mins. Head north on Kingsway/A4161 towards North Road. Continue to follow A4161. *Continue onto North Road/A470. Keep right to stay on North Road/A470. Use the left 3 lanes to turn slightly left onto Merthyr Road/A470. Continue to follow A470 for 3 miles. Take the A4054/B4262 exit towards Taff's Well/Ffynnon Taf/Radyr for 0.2miles. At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto the B4262. At the roundabout take the 2nd exit onto Ty-Nant Road/B4262 - continue to follow B4262, turn right onto Park Road.

M4, The Prince of Wales Bridge – The Second Severn Crossing.

The Prince of Wales Bridge (Pont Tywysog Cymru) previously known as the Second Severn Crossing (Ail Groesfan Hafren) is the M4 motorway bridge over the River Severn between England and Wales, which was inaugurated by HRH Prince of Wales on 5th June 1996, to supplement the traffic capacity of the Severn Bridge built in 1966.

Gwen: Oh my god. Severn Bridge. I’m going into England. Farewell forever.

Filming for COE: Day One was along the M4 between 25A and 24

How to get there:

By Car: Head north to Kingsway/A4161 towards North Road, and continue to follow the A4161. Continue onto North Road/A470 (some parts of this road may be closed at certain times or days). Keep right to stay on North Road/A470. Use the left 3 lanes to turn slightly onto Merthyr Road/A470 - continue following the A470. Use the left lane to take the M4/A4054 slip road to Tongwynlais. At Coryton Gyratory/Coryton Roundabout, exit onto the M4 slip road to Newport/Casnewydd and merge onto M4. Again parts of this road may be closed at certain times or days. You have reached the Prince of Wales Bridge.

41, Cefn Coed Road, Cardiff, CF23 6AP

Currently valued at £1,189,000 on Zoopla, makes you realise that you're in a well to do area, who may not appreciate a bunch of fans snapping photos of said property, so be aware of this when you visit the Lake.

The house is on private ground with no access to view.

It played host to the Frobisher's Residence in Episodes 1 - 5. It is a tall white building with an extensive garden and high hedge with a fantastic view across Roath Park Lake.

How to get there:

The quickest route to finding the location but please don't make a nuisance of yourself is by taking North Road/A470, Cathays Terrace, Fairoak Road and Lake Road East to Cefn-Coed Road which will take 9 mins. Turn right onto Cefn-Coed Road, destination is on left.

47, Plymouth Road, Penarth

Alice's house. A few doors up is location for Estelle Cole's home in Small Worlds.

 The number 47 was changed to 27 for the COE episode visible in Day 3

How to get there:

Travelling by car, take the A4161, A4234, Cardiff Bay Link Rd/A4232, A4055 and A4160 to Plymouth Road in Penarth. Turn left onto Plymouth Road. Plymouth Road is in suburbia and not a film studio so, do please respect their privacy.

Coedarhydyglyn, St Nicholas, Cardiff, Vale of Glamorgan, CF5 6SF

The house with grounds covering 50 hectares are not open to the public and are for ornamental purposes only.

Coedarhydyglyn is an ornamental landscape park created in the early 19th century that has survived in its entirety. The walls of a late 18th century kitchen garden survive. In the early 20th century a woodland dell was designed by Alfred Parsons and partners with a Japanese flavour, with a woodland containing conifers and rhododendrons, which some were planted for scientific or ornamental purposes in the 1940s and 50s.

The build of the current house began in 1820, replacing an earlier structure, with further development of the gardens during the 20th century.

This is a private house on land which is owned by the Traherne family dating back to Henry VII. Rhodri Traherne who currently owns the building, was worried when Cybermen crashed through 12ft x 4ft windows of the house that had been in his family for 200 years. They left silver paint marks as they scuffed their way through doors not meant for such bulky bodies to fit through, but the Doctor Who crew touched up all the paintwork so incredibly well that it was hard to spot where they'd once been.

This property was used for Inside Grayle's Mansion in The Angels Take Manhattan, Brian's Study and The Savoy in The Power of Three, Ealing Circle Nature Reserve for The Empty Planet, Days 1 - 5 of COE for Prime Minister's Office and 10 Downing Street, and for the Doctor Who two parter Rise of the Cybermen and Age of Steel and of course Tyler Residence in Doomsday.

There is no access to this property and land for fans to visit. Many of the routes have restrictions due to many leading to private roads.

Cardiff Royal Infirmary Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 0SZ

Private land and no or limited access

The Hospital Mortuary Day One

Also used as Albion Hospital in 2005 for The Empty Child, Aliens of London, The Doctor Dances. For Alexandra Palace in The Idiot's Lantern, They Keep Killing Suzie when Suzie visits her Dad in hospital, For End of Days when Owen and Tosh visit an isolation ward, Owen's hospital in Fragments and Royal Hope Hospital reports in Turn Left. plus the back of Tizanno's Pizza Restaurant in Rose, plus Morganstern relates what happened to the Royal Hope Hospital from this hospital when it was transported to the Moon.

How to get there:

Head north on Kingsway/A4161 towards North Road, continuing to follow A4161, use the right 2 lanes to turn right onto Boulevard De Nantes/A4161, still continue to follow the A4161 and turn right onto Glossop Road. Travel on this for 499ft before turning left onto Longcross Street. Turn left onto Orbit Street for 387 ft before turning left onto Newport Road/A4161, destination is on the left.

Cathedral School, Llandaff, Cardiff, CF5 2YH

The Llandaff Cathedral school began its life as an all male school until 1978 when it opened its doors to allow girls to become pupils. The school takes in children from nursery right up to sixth form (from aged 3 - 18)

Filmed Day One & Day Two where kids uttered the WE ARE COMING/TOMORROW chant and the school that I think Steven went to.

How to get there:

By car via A4119, head south-west on Duke Street/A4161 towards Duke Street Arcade, and continue to follow the A4161 for 0.4miles. Turn right onto Cathedral Road/A4119 and continue on that road for 1.0miles. Turn right onto Cardiff Road/A4119 for 0.5miles. Make a U-turn and find the School on the left.

Again, please respect that this is a working school and any lingering out in front of it may warrant a ride in the back of a shiny police car.

Fields Park Avenue, Allt-Yr-Yn, Newport, NP20

I'm not surprised Rhys was checking out properties in this area especially if it's Torchwood money paying for them. They're a bit on the pricey range according to Zoopla.

Rhys was pictured talking to wife Gwen, outside one nice property in this area. No idea which house it is

How to get here:

By car via Eastern Ave/A48, take the slip road to Cardiff (W)/Caerdydd (Gn)/Cardiff Airport/Maes Awyr Caerdydd from North Road/A470 for 1.8 miles. Follow Eastern Ave/A48, A48 (M) and M4 to Glasllwch Cres/B4591 in Newport. Take exit 27 from M4 for 10.7 miles. Follow B4591 to Fields Park Avenue, for 1.3 miles.

St Cadoc's Hospital, Lodge Road, Caerleon, Gwent, NP18 3XQ

Exterior used for Clem McDonald as he chanted WE ARE COMING when staff came running towards him.

St Cadoc's has been known as many different names over the years, from Newport Borough Asylum, Newport Borough Mental Hospital before being known as St Cadoc's Hospital. It opened in 1906 and was designed by architect Alfred J. Wood. The site comprised of 123 acres and was purchased for £16,000. The buildings were erected by Messrs. John Linton & Co., Newport at cost of £155,000. On 27th May 1903, the foundation stone was laid by Cllr. J.H. Dunn, Mayor of Newport. The hospital was officially opened three years later on 25th January, 1906, by the then Mayor of Newport, Cllr. John Liscombe.

St. Cadoc's Hospital is part of the NHS Trust, providing mental health services for all ages.

How to get there:

Using car and travelling on the M4 takes 30 minutes. Get on the M4 from A470 for 5.3 miles, follow M4 to Malpas Road/A4051 in Newport. Take exit 26 from M4 for 12.5 miles. Continue on Malpas Road/A4051. Take Pillmawr Road to Lodge Road in Caerleon for 2.8 miles.

Filming of Sleeper - Jack and Gwen carry Beth out of the hospital

Children of Earth Days 1 (inside and outside Clem's hospital)

COE Day 2 (Gwen and Rhys 'requisition' the ambulance heading to the base)

The Eleventh Hour Hospital exterior/entrance/locker room

The Power of Three hospital

Cardiff Castle, Castle Street, Cardiff, CF10 3RB

This location has been used before in Torchwood so check back in our previous posts.

  

Although I’ve come to discover that a number of other locations were used for smaller scenes in Day One, Children of Earth, these were the most prominent of them during the series.