Basingstoke named in The Gentlemen season two episode

Guy Richie’s the Gentlemen season two landed on Netflix on September 3 with a familiar name in one of the episode’s titles.

Episode 5 of the series is entitled ‘A Suburban A-Road on the Outskirts of Basingstoke’.

Season two follows as Eddie Horniman (Theo James) and Susie Glass (Kaya Scodelario) expand their cannabis empire into Italy, where new criminal rivals threaten their growing operation.

Theo James and Kaya Scodelario attend the premiere for season two of The Gentlemen, at the Guildhall Art Gallery in central London (Image: IAN WEST/PA Wire)

Episode 5 begins with Eddie Horniman being beaten with lead pipes and thrown in a grave.

Later in the episode, he wakes and crawls out of the grave, managing to drag himself to a road, where he is found by a passing driver who calls an ambulance.

The narration in the episode reads: “And after two nights, three miles of quagmire, thorn wood, and bush, he found himself on a suburban A–road on the outskirts of Basingstoke, and… and he was saved.”

While this portion is set in Basingstoke, it is not known where it was filmed.

The drama was largely filmed at Badminton House in Gloucestershire, Loseley Park near Guildford and Ashcombe Estate in Wiltshire.

The series was also filmed at Salisbury Cathedral, the Greenwich Peninsula, Bullock’s Farmhouse, and Swakeleys House in Ickenham.

The series stars Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings, Joely Richardson, Hugh Bonneville, Vinnie Jones and Maya Jama.