England (Cornish: Pow Sows) is a country located mainly on the island of Great Britain. England is part of the United Kingdom, i.e. the British state, and is the largest of its parts, both in terms of area and population. Its population makes up about 84 percent of the British population, and in terms of area, England covers two-thirds of the British Isles. England is bordered by Wales in the west and Scotland in the north. The country is surrounded by the North Sea, the Irish Sea, the Atlantic and the English Channel.
England has not had self-government since the 1707 Treaty of Union, when the Kingdom of Great Britain was established. However, it differs in its legal system from Scotland and Northern Ireland, as well as from smaller areas such as the Isle of Man, because it belongs to the whole of England and Wales. The largest city in England, London, is also the capital of the United Kingdom. The name England comes from the Old English word Englaland and means the "land of the English".
As series protagonist James Bond is a British national (with family connections to Scotland and Switzerland), almost every Bond story has him in England to some capacity. Beyond briefings at MI6 Headquarters in London, Bond has travelled to other parts of England, like in Moonraker (novel), Goldfinger, Thunderball (+ Never Say Never Again), Licence Renewed, A View to a Kill (film), Win, Lose or Die, amongst others.
Locations
Several times James Bond has been to the England; the places he has been to include:
- London
- City of London
- SIS Building
- CNS Building
- Blades
- Sotheby's (Octopussy)
- Vauxhall Cross Tube Station
- Hildebrand Prints and Rarities
- Greater London
- Millennium Dome / The O2 (The World is Not Enough)
- HM Prison Belmarsh
- Unspecified
- "Blades" Fencing school (Die Another Day)
- City of London
- South East
- Buckinghamshire
- Church of St Giles (For Your Eyes Only, Tracy's grave)
- Stoke Park Golf club (Goldfinger)
- West Sussex
- Shrublands Health Spa (Thunderball & NSNA)
- Berkshire
- Eton College (one of James Bond's schools)
- Ascot Racecourse (Licence Renewed and A View to a Kill)
- Kent
- Pett Bottom (home of Charmian Bond, in Canterbury)
- Moonraker Missile-building base (Moonraker/Novel, located "between Dover and Deal")
- Sir James Bond's mansion (Casino Royale 1967)
- Oxfordshire
- "Around Berkshire and Surrey"
- Buckinghamshire
- North West
- East of England
- West Midlands
- Herefordshire
- Stirling Lines / "Hereford SAS Training Grounds" (Scorpius)
- Herefordshire
- South West
- Wiltshire
- Foxton Hall Circuit
- RAF Lyneham (COLD)
- Somerset
- RNAS Yeovilton / HMS Heron (Win, Lose or Die)
- Wiltshire
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- East Midlands
- North East
- Unknown
- RAF Station Swadley (Never Say Never Again)
Real life
England was the home of Ian Fleming, and still is the home of Pinewood Studios where many Bond films are made.
Behind the Scenes
Actors
Shooting locations
- Pinewood Studios, - Almost all the films except for Licence to Kill.
- Other places in England - Goldfinger (Stoke Poges Golf Club), Thunderball (Silverstone Circuit), For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill (Ascot Racecourse), GoldenEye (Leavesden Aerodrome, Hertsfordshire), Tomorrow Never Dies (Frogmore Studios, HMS Dryad, Oxford, IBM building Middlesex, RAF Lakenheath), The World Is Not Enough (London, Wiltshire and Halton House, Buckinghamshire), Die Another Day (London, RAF Odiham, Church Crookham, Hampshire, The Eden Project, Cornwall, Holywell Bay, Newquay, Cornwall)
Gallery
Trivia
- Despite England being effectively his home country, James Bond rarely if ever visits any region other than London and South East England. This is likely due to MI6/SIS that Bond works under being the foreign intelligence agency of UK and meant to work outside its boundaries, with MI5/Security Service operating within UK boundaries.