Where ITV's Passenger was filmed, real life locations and where is Chadder Vale
24.03.2024 - 21:19
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
New thriller Passenger begins on ITV this weekend, where mysterious things are happening in the northern town of Chadder Vale. The drama, penned by Bolton's Andrew Buchan, begins with detective Riya Ajunwa investigating the disappearance of a local girl Katie Wells.
She is swiftly found - but it soon becomes clear that something a bit strange is going on in the seemingly close-knit community amid reports of other young people disappearing. All, seemingly, with a connection to a fracking site and the old tree on the town's outskirts.
The atmospheric drama was all brought to life in scenes filmed across the north west last year. The town of Chadder Vale itself is fictional - but it was created for the drama in a real village up in the hills of Upper Calder Valley on the Lancashire/Yorkshire border.
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The show's creator, Broadchurch star Andrew, moved from life in front of the camera to write his first major TV drama. Explaining what it is all about he said: "Passenger is about someone going missing in a small Lancashire village, the ripple effect of that on the community and how the town folds in on itself as a result.
"It’s set in a town called Chadder Vale, a tiny little pinprick of a village on the Lancashire/Yorkshire border nestled in this valley, it’s full of people just going about their business, full of small businesses, a place of safety, security, people who've lived there all their lives."
He adds: "People might not know, but I grew up in Bolton and obviously there's a rich vein of humour running through a lot of northern towns and having grown up in and amongst that and the way that people react specifically to extremes with humour has always