Leadworth

Leadworth was an English village in the English Midlands and home to Amelia Pond (later Amy Pond) and Rory Williams. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)



Overview
Leadworth had no airport and or a nuclear power station, not even a little one. Leadworth had a post office, a parish church, a hospital called Royal Leadworth Hospital where Rory worked, a fire station, a village green with a duckless duck pond (probably due to the Time Field) and a public phone box. (DW: The Eleventh Hour) The village had at least one local newspaper, the Leadworth Chronicle. (DW: Let's Kill Hitler) It was half an hour by car from the nearest city, Gloucester which was to the south. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)

History
Amy had lived in Leadworth for most of her life after she moved from Scotland. In an alternate timeline created by Amy's mother and her father being erased from existence, Amy had moved to Leadworth with her Aunt Sharon some time prior to Easter 1996. When the timeline was repaired and Amy's parents restored, Amy had still moved to Leadworth as a young girl, but with her parents instead of Sharon. (DW: The Big Bang)


 * Whether or not Sharon lived in Leadworth in the restored timeline remains unknown.

Sometime prior to Easter 1996 a mysterious crack in time had opened in Leadworth, linking it to a prison and allowing the shape-changing Prisoner Zero, to escape into the village. On Easter, the Doctor's TARDIS, piloted by the Doctor, who had just regenerated, and could not properly steer the damaged craft, crashed near Amy's house in her backyard. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)

In 2008, the village was invaded by the Atraxi, who had come in search of Prisoner Zero. The Doctor, for whom only a short time had passed, defeated Prisoner Zero and then ordered the Atraxi to leave. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)

In 2011, after waiting an entire month for the Doctor, who was looking for her daughter, Amy had grown tired and had Rory drive through a field in Leadworth to make a crop circle which said "Doctor". She reunited with the Doctor (who had landed in the second "o"), but the Doctor was forced at gunpoint by her childhood friend Mels to help her escape the police. The Doctor was then forced to go to Berlin, 1938. (DW: Let's Kill Hitler)

Alternate versions

 * In a dream version of Leadworth created by the Dream Lord, by 2015, Leadworth had expanded into (or included) Upper Leadworth, an area home to many pensioners and 'slightly upmarket' according to Rory Williams. (DW: Amy's Choice)
 * In an alternate timeline where Professor Saurian had stopped the extinction of the dinosaurs, Leadworth was much the same, but the inhabitants were all reptilian creatures. (DWA: Dino World)

Known residents

 * Amy Pond and her parents Augustus and Tabetha
 * Rory Williams
 * Sharon (alternate timeline)
 * Dr. Ramsden
 * Mr. Henderson
 * Mrs. Angelo and Jeff Angelo
 * Mrs Poggit
 * Mrs Hamil (possibly fictional)
 * "Mels" (Melody)

Behind the scenes

 * Leadworth scenes are actually filmed at Llandaff in Cardiff, about 1/2 mile away from the main BBC Wales building. However, the Upper Leadworth scenes in Amy's Choice were filmed in the South East Wales village of Skenfrith.
 * During filming of DW: The Eleventh Hour, Steven Moffat described Leadworth as "basically Trumpton."