Where is ITV's Code of Silence filmed?

But when she ends up falling for a new member of the gang, Liam, chaos ensues.

The series is set in Canterbury, Kent, but viewers might be wondering if it was actually shot around there.

Read on for everything you need to know about where Code of Silence was filmed.

Code of Silence filming locations: Is the series actually shot in Kent?

No, while the narrative is set in Canterbury, Kent, the cast and crew didn't actually film there.

"We wanted to [film there]," said Arnold during a Q&A. "It actually just became really logistically difficult for us to actually get down there and film.

"It was challenging in that it's quite isolated and doesn’t have the crew and infrastructure... it just didn't quite work with the schedule."

So, to get around that they "shot a fair bit around the M25 – St Albans was quite a good fit for us to replicate Canterbury, along with various other places around Berkshire and Hertfordshire [including Hemel Hempstead]", she added.

Meanwhile, speaking about how Canterbury means a lot to her, Ayling-Ellis said: "When I found out it was going to be set in Canterbury, that got me even more excited and made me think of some of my friends from college."

She added: "I put elements of that into it too, but don't tell them! All my friends are very 'Canterbury culture' and we loved buying clothes from vintage shops or charity shops. I wanted that for Alison as well, getting second-hand jumpers and mix-and-match clothes."

Executive producer Bryony Arnold also said that Moulton was keen to depict a place that isn't often shown on TV, "but also might have criminal undertones".

"Kent has a high rate for organised criminal gang activity," she added.

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What is Code of Silence about?

The series follows Alison Brooks (Ayling-Ellis), a young Deaf woman working in a police canteen who is asked to assist a team of detectives by using her lip-reading skills to help them bring down a dangerous gang.

"She finds the work thrilling," said writer Catherine Moulton, who is partially Deaf and skilled in lip-reading herself.

"The gang are careful to meet in places where they can’t be bugged... the police are on the back foot, and only Alison has the skills to help them gather evidence on the heist the group are planning."

Ayling-Ellis went on to discuss why being sought out by the police is so important for Alison within the context of her disability.

"You can give a Deaf person a job in a pub and think they're going to be so grateful just to have it, but it might not be what they really want to do," she explained.

"I can relate to that experience. Before I did any of this, I worked in [a supermarket], I worked as a gardener, I was a seamstress, but I never got promoted and never got to work my way up.

"I'm not the only Deaf or disabled person to have experienced that, which is why the police job is such a big deal for her. She feels empowered because she's doing something that the police can't even do themselves. She really comes to love that power, even if she goes too far sometimes."

Code of Silence airs on ITV1 and ITVX from Sunday 18th May 2025.

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