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== ''Kingdom'' (TV series) ==

In the summer of 2006, location filming was done in the town for the [[ITV1]] series ''[[Kingdom (British TV series)|Kingdom]]'', starring [[Stephen Fry]]. In ''Kingdom'' the town is called Market Shipborough. The pub the ''Startled Duck'' in the TV series is better known as the ''Greyhound Inn'', in which the [[Earl of Orford]] created the first [[hare coursing|coursing]] club open to the public, in 1776.<ref name="gulfcoastgreyhounds">{{cite web|url=http://www.gulfcoastgreyhounds.org/hist-18-19-cent.html|publisher=gulfcoastgreyhounds.org|title=History of Greyhounds: 18th and 19th Centuries |access-date=29 December 2016}}</ref> Peter Kingdom's office is Oakleigh House, near the town square (formerly the house of the Head Master of Hamond's Grammar School), with the coastal scenes filmed at [[Wells-next-the-Sea]] on the north Norfolk coast.