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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
Where Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children says it takes place, and where it was really shot.
The island is Wales, the house is Belgium, and the pier is Blackpool.
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Scenes and places
Abe's last words in Florida (2016)
Jake rushes to his grandfather's house and finds Abe dying, his eyes gone. In his last words Abe sends him to an island and to a loop on September 3, 1943. This sets Jake on the path to a place he has only heard about in bedtime stories.
Set in Jake's Florida home town (unnamed in the film) — Jake's family home, his job at a store, and his grandfather Abe's house in Florida.
Suburban Tampa Bay stands in for the ordinary American life Jake is about to leave behind.
Filmed at Sun City Center, Florida (area centre) — Abe's house and neighbourhood, filmed in and around Sun City Center. The exact house is not confirmed here. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Filmed at Gandy Bridge, Tampa to St. Petersburg — Driving scenes were shot on the bridge. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Filmed at Bellair Bluffs, Florida (area centre) — Jake's family home. A news report names Belleair Bluffs; a location blog names Largo instead. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Arriving on Cairnholm
Jake persuades his father to take him to Cairnholm for closure after Abe's death. The one-hotel island is nothing like the stories, and Jake goes looking for the children's home alone.
Set in Cairnholm, an island off Wales — The island where Jake and his father go to see the children's home from Abe's stories.
A small Cornish cove village is made over into a Welsh island town.
Filmed at Portholland, Cornwall — Village buildings were dressed up as the island town; a pub front was added. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Filmed at Caerhays Estate and Porthluney Cove, Cornwall — The estate and its beach were used for the island coast and cliffs. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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The ruined house and the loop
Jake finds the home in ruins, but inside he meets the children from Abe's stories. They take him through a portal into 1943, where the house stands whole and Miss Peregrine explains the loop that hides them.
Set in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Cairnholm — The house is a ruin in 2016. Through the loop Jake sees it whole on September 3, 1943.
A manor in Belgium plays the house; the sets inside were built elsewhere.
Filmed at Kasteel Torenhof, Brasschaat — Exterior of the house. Interiors were built on a studio set. Google Maps · Apple Maps
How to get there: Bredabaan 502, Brasschaat. Check what is open to visitors.
The sunken liner Augusta
With the loop closed and Miss Peregrine taken, the stranded children raise the sunken liner Augusta from the sea and sail for Blackpool to find her.
Set in RMS Augusta wreck, off Cairnholm — A cruise liner sunk in 1915, which Emma uses as a hideout and the children raise to leave 1943.
A shipwreck named in the island's guidebook, now a way out of 1943.
Landing at Blackpool's pier
Jake and the children arrive in Blackpool's January 2016 loop to rescue Miss Peregrine. They challenge their enemies to bring her and the other Ymbrynes to the end of the pier.
Set in Blackpool pier, England — The children reach Blackpool, where Barron's allies hold Miss Peregrine and other Ymbrynes in a January 2016 loop. Google Maps · Apple Maps
One of Britain's Victorian seaside piers, on the Lancashire coast.
Filmed at North Pier, Blackpool — The 1940s pier, with digital additions. Google Maps · Apple Maps
How to get there: A public seafront pier in Blackpool.
The Tower Circus in Blackpool
Inside the circus, Emma uses her air power as the children take on Barron's followers and try to free the captured Ymbrynes.
Set in Blackpool Tower Circus — A circus hall near the pier where the children fight to free the captive Ymbrynes. Google Maps · Apple Maps
A circus hall inside Blackpool Tower, in use since 1894.
Filmed at Blackpool Tower Circus — The circus scene. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Filmed at Blackpool Central Pier — Blackpool in 2016 Google Maps · Apple Maps
Characters
- Jake — A Florida teenager who follows his grandfather's last words to a hidden world.
- Emma Bloom — An aerokinetic girl who has lived in the loop since 1943.
- Miss Peregrine — The headmistress who turns into a falcon and keeps the loop.
- Abe Portman — Jake's grandfather, whose stories were real.
- Frank Portman — Jake's father, who takes him to Cairnholm.
Questions answered on the map
- The island town in Miss Peregrine's Home is not Wales. Where was it filmed?
- Where is the real house of Miss Peregrine?