Late Victorian terraces run beside a 52-acre cemetery of old monuments and trees, and a pub that has been used as a set for films and television.
What Nunhead looks like
The cemetery covers 52 acres of Victorian monuments and trees, with an Anglican chapel and an obelisk among the graves. Rows of white war headstones sit under the trees, with ivy-covered hedges behind them. The has two neo-classical gate lodges, and the site is a designated local nature reserve.
Southwark Council owns the cemetery, so filming needs permission from the Southwark Film Office. Professional photography and filming need a permit, while personal photography does not.
and have late Victorian and early Edwardian houses, many with bay windows at the front. Kimberley Avenue has pollarded plane trees along the kerb, and its terraces have white-painted bays.
No. 10 Linden Grove is a cream-painted three-storey house with a bay window and basement steps. at 40 Stuart Road is a Grade II listed pub. Its three storeys of red brick date from 1938, and a pergola stands on the roof.
is on Gibbon Road. The 343 and 484 buses pass near the second cemetery gate on Limesford Road, and the P12 and 78 both serve the area.
Shot in Nunhead
The Ivy House, a pub on Stuart Road, has been used as a set for films and television. Too Much, the 2025 Netflix series, used the pub. Legend, the 2015 film about the Kray twins, used it too. The cemetery was one of two places used for the graveyard scenes of Melody in 1971.
Too Much, 2025
The Ivy House
In the series, Jessica heads to the pub, where she first meets Felix after his gig. The same building was used as a set for Legend (2015).
Melody, 1971
Nunhead Cemetery
Played a London graveyard, 1970s
The graveyard scenes of Melody were filmed at Nunhead Cemetery and at Brompton Cemetery. Melody is a 1971 British children's romantic comedy-drama directed by Waris Hussein.
Undercliffe is a Victorian cemetery on a hillside, with monuments in many styles and a long promenade. Its Anglican section was consecrated in 1854, which puts its stones in the same Victorian period as the monuments here. A wide shot gives Undercliffe away through its views over the city, so keep frames tight among the monuments. Try searching Victorian cemetery monuments now.
Chorlton-cum-Hardy in Manchester, England
Chorlton-cum-Hardy keeps much of its original Victorian architecture, so its late Victorian and Edwardian streets are a plausible Manchester stand-in for the terraces here. The match depends on keeping the frame on the houses and off the village centre. The Edwardian Baroque library on Manchester Road gives Chorlton away in a wide shot, so keep frames to the side streets. Try searching late Victorian terraces now.
