A Shropshire tour company is offering an chance to get up close and personal with the stunning settings for the Oscar-winning movie Atonement, with a tour featuring locations both in the county and in London.

Keira Knightley (Cecilia) with on-screen brother Patrick Kennedy (Leon) on the set of Atonement, filmed at Stokesay Court, south Shropshire

Marking the release of the Blu-ray DVD of the period film featuring Keira Knightley, a new exclusive ‘set-jetting’ tour of the real-life Shropshire stately home location is being launched – with the added bonus of taking in the movie’s London wartime sets.

Designed to appeal to anyone who enjoyed the award-winning movie starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, Shropshire’s PandP Tours has created a behind-the-scenes tour of Shropshire location Stokesay Court, home of that fountain as well as many of the movie’s other memorable scenes.

As well as coach travel, hotel accommodation with breakfast, all entrance fees plus tour guides, the tour includes a rare chance to go inside Stokesay Court with décor instantly recognisable from the production.

Those joining are promised “juicy production anecdotes” and a chance to meet the owners. The tour is the brainchild of professional Shropshire-based tour guides – and mother-and-daughter team – Helen Wilkinson and Maddy Hall, who have turned their personal passion for literary and movie locations into a business.

And from June a one-day package running as a stand-alone or a special ‘movie extra’ addition to the Shropshire Atonement tour will offer a new trail taking in London’s wartime locations from the movie. PandP Tours has teamed up with expert London specialist Brit Movie Tours to create the new trail around some of London’s top locations.

The two-day Shropshire ‘Double Bill Tour’ — which also includes a special behind-the-scenes tour of the real-life set of BBC TV’s hit programme Victorian Farm as an added bonus — is available once a month on weekdays until September, while the London locations day tour runs monthly from June to October 2010. Prices start from £85.

For more details see www.pandptours.co.uk