Cornwall came to Farnley Tyas for a classic drama.

Film crews chose land owned by the Farnley Estates to make their glittering new adaptation of the Daphne Du Maurier classic, Jamaica Inn.

So the wilds of Bodmin Moor and the glorious Cornish countryside will be depicted next Easter as the rolling countryside around Huddersfield.

The move delighted officials of Farnley Estates, who own and manage large tracts of land.

They watched on as the opening scenes of the latest screen adaptation of Jamaica Inn were filmed in Farnley.

The three 60-minute part drama is to be screened on BBC One next Easter.

And it stars Jessica Brown Findlay who played Lady Sybil Crawley in Downton Abbey.

It is the latest TV show to feature Huddersfield after shows such as Last Of The Summer Wine, Where The Heart Is and Wokenwell.

Several locations within Farnley Estates were used for filming scenes from the West Country.

They included Field Lane, Best Lane and Stocks Dove Wood. Meanwhile, nearby Crow Edge was chosen as the location for the Inn itself and Marsden was used for filming some of the moor scenes.

John Sykes, director of Farnley Estates, was delighted.

“It’s thanks to Brooke’s Mill owner, Mark Brooke, and Ben Sweet, from North Light Studios, who suggested Farnley Estates as a location.

“We were delighted to welcome the production company for the filming.

“It was important for them to get uninterrupted shots of farmland, without any signs of the 21st century world.

“It involved temporarily moving a few gates and ploughing certain fields, but the production team loved the result.

“It just goes to show how beautiful this corner of the world is, when a film company has to come all the way to Farnley Estates to find countryside as stunning as Cornwall.

“It’s also very good for the local economy, with the potential for tourism,” added John.

Daphne Du Maurier’s tale of smuggling, love and survival, is set in 1820, in the bleak, forbidding landscape of the Cornish moors.

The new version, made by Origin Pictures, with funding from Screen Yorkshire, will star Brown Findlay in the lead role as Mary Yellan.

Others in the cast are Matthew McNulty, Sean Harris, Ben Daniels, Joanne Whalley and Shirley Henderson.

Jamaica Inn was adapted for the screen by writer Emma Frost, who recently wrote the screen adaptation of The White Queen, and is directed by BAFTA-winning Director, Philippa Lowthorpe.

FACTFILE

English writer Daphne Du Maurier published Jamaica Inn in 1936

It is set in 1820s Cornwall

The story is of young Mary Yellan, sent to live with her aunt at a remote inn on Bodmin Moor

Alfred Hitchcock made a big-screen version in 1959

The stars were Charles Laughton and Maureen O’Hara