page_title: The Vicar of Dibley
section_title: Location and setting
hierarchical_section_title: The Vicar of Dibley / Location and setting
caption_attribution_description: Houses in Turville, Buckinghamshire, taken from the churchyard of St Mary's church, with Cobstone Windmill in the background.
context_page_description: The Vicar of Dibley is a British sitcom which originally ran on BBC One from 10 November 1994 to 22 January 1998, and then from the 24 December 1999 to 1 January 2007. It is set in a fictional small Oxfordshire village called Dibley, which is assigned a female vicar following the 1992 changes in the Church of England that permitted the ordination of women. It was placed third in a BBC poll of Britain's best sitcoms.
  In ratings terms, it is among the most successful British programmes in the digital era, with the various Christmas and New Year specials in 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 all entering the UK top 10 programmes of the year.The Vicar of Dibley received multiple British Comedy Awards, two International Emmys, and was a multiple British Academy Television Awards nominee. In 2004, it placed third in a BBC poll of Britain's Best Sitcoms.
  The series also includes six charity special shorts, for Comic Relief, the most recent in 2015.
  In April 2020, the show returned for a short segment in The Big Night In - fundraising for both Comic Relief and Children in Need.
context_section_description: The programme is set in the fictional Oxfordshire village of Dibley. Some of the villagers, including Alice, Jim and Owen, speak with slight West Country accents, as were once common in Oxfordshire but are now less common. The series was filmed in the Buckinghamshire village of Turville near High Wycombe, with the village's St Mary the Virgin Church doubling as Dibley's St Barnabus (sic). Other television programmes and films, such as Midsomer Murders, Goodnight Mister Tom, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Went the Day Well?, Father Came Too!, Marple, and Foyle's War have also been filmed in the village. The exterior location for David Horton's manor (usually only seen in establishing shots) was not located in Turville, but in the village of Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire.
  The opening titles show aerial shots of the M40 motorway's Stokenchurch Gap, the Chiltern Hills of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, and the village of Turville.
  Only two episodes, "The Window and the Weather" (1994) and "Celebrity Vicar" (1998), plus the 2013 Comic Relief sketch have scenes clearly set in locations outside the village. It is not clear whether other scenes, such as the speed dating session in "Happy New Year" (2005), were meant to be located in the village or not.
caption: The village of Turville in Buckinghamshire stands in for the village of Dibley
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