to the north of the town, it is an academy school and part of the Merchant Taylors’ Oxfordshire Academy Trust. The school provides the education provision for the Wallingford area for boys and girls between the ages of 11 and 18. The majority of pupils from both Fir Tree and St John's continue on to Wallingford School. Wallingford School also draws pupils from Crowmarsh, Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, Cholsey and Warborough primary schools and occasionally Didcot primary schools. Town twinning Wallingford is twinned with: Bad Wurzach, Germany Luxeuil-les-Bains, France Wallingford has an informal link to: Wallingford, Connecticut, United States Media The popular television detective drama Midsomer Murders films in Wallingford and the surrounding area, which poses as the fictional town of Causton in the county of Midsomer. In the British TV series, Sorry! starring Ronnie Corbett, the exterior town scenes were filmed in Wallingford. Corbett's character, Timothy, drank in the Dolphin Public House. The Christmas special Professor Branestawm starring Harry Hill as well as David Mitchell, Simon Day, Ben Miller and Miranda Richardson was filmed mainly in Wallingford. It aired in 2014. Notable people In the town: John Dreyer, football player Jonathan Bailey, actor Kevin Bailey, poet Evelyn Barbirolli, oboist William Blackstone, legal writer Charlie Brooker, comedy writer and presenter John Buckley, sculptor Agatha Christie mystery writer and playwright lived in Winterbrook House with her second husband Sir Max Mallowan. Paul Conroy, music executive William Henry Davies (entrepreneur), Toronto meatpacker (peameal bacon) Gary Elkins, football player Edgar Field, England footballer and winner of the FA Cup in 1880 Peter Flannery, playwright and screenwriter Dulcie Gray, actress James Hayllar, artist Jerome K. Jerome, author, lived near Wallingford Geoffrey Keen, actor Peter R. Kiff, sedimentologist and chemist George Dunlop Leslie, artist Max Mallowan, archaeologist, at Winterbrook House with Agatha Christie James H. McClure, mystery writer Ann Packer, Olympic athlete Zac Purchase, Olympic athlete Edmund Charles Rawlings, politician Moses Roper, former slave Paul Rotha, documentary filmmaker Gladys Bronwyn Stern, novelist Simon Watson Taylor, actor, translator and surrealist Thomas Tusser, poet John of Wallingford (died 1214), monk and abbot of St. Albans Abbey John of Wallingford (died 1258), monk and chronicler Richard of Wallingford, mathematician and clockmaker Richard of Wallingford, organiser in the Peasants' Revolt William of Wallingford, builder of Wallingford Screen at St Albans Cathedral Rex Warner, writer Peter Cathcart Wason, psychologist Charles West, mystery writer John Warburton B.E.M., Awarded 2015 for services to the Arts