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What's the reference?

• WorldMaker 10mo ago
  Swindon seems to be the real world village that Hot Fuzz's fictional village setting "Sanford" is patterned after?
  • exasperaited 10mo ago
    Swindon is not a village, it’s a fairly large town. About 180,000 people live there. It is a very old town that has a slightly undeserved reputation for being grey and boring and too far from anywhere fun. Sandford is inspired by Wells and Wimbourne, though neither of those are villages either. Wells is tiny, but actually a city.
• krige 10mo ago
  It's not so much Swindon specifically as setting being Britain, but it's the Three Flavors Cornetto trilogy, especially The World's End, which deals with aging, disillusionment, pining for "good old times", and similar themes.