of 32.5%. The remaining % is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible % of households living rent-free). Culture Film Shepperton Studios Shepperton Studios is home to a multi-disciplinary film production facility from on-set, through to television and various forms of animation. This also acts as a base for on-location film work for television dramas in the South East and in films, for instance for productions partly shot in the Burnham Beeches woods less than away. These adjoin Shepperton Green, in the now negligible village of Littleton. In the 1930s its Littleton manor's core, which covered was converted into film production lots. This was reduced to in 1973. Works produced or shot wholly or in part on its 15 stages, other lots or in its extensive animation facilities since the new millennium include: Billy Elliot, Chocolat, Gladiator (2000)Bridget Jones's Diary, Gosford Park (2001), Spy Game (2001)About a Boy, Bend It Like Beckham (2002)Love Actually (2003)Alexander, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Troy, Wimbledon (2004)Batman Begins, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Sahara, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)The Da Vinci Code (2006)Atonement, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, The Golden Compass (2007)Inkheart, Moon, Nine, The Young Victoria (2009)Clash of the Titans, Robin Hood (2010)Captain America: The First Avenger, Hugo (2011)Anna Karenina, John Carter (2012)Fast & Furious 6, Gravity, Thor: The Dark World (2013) Halliford Studios Lower Halliford, a completely contiguous so also integral part of Shepperton, used to be home to Halliford Film Studios, opposite the Manygate Lane conservation area, built in 1955 and one of the first film studios devoted to TV commercial production. It was an independent film studio used for commercials, small television productions and other short "promos". The studio was recently closed and demolished. Literature George Eliot depicted Shepperton as set out above. Shepperton was the home of author J. G. Ballard, the so-called "Seer of Shepperton", and provides the setting for his novels Crash (in which a couple become sexually aroused through car crashes and was written as the M3 motorway was being built past the end of his street) and The Unlimited Dream Company. Shepperton is mentioned in the novel The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, in which its destruction is described along with nearby settlements. It is also mentioned in the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, where Bill Sikes tempts Oliver into visiting a