Trumptonshire is a fictional county created by Gordon Murray, in which the Trumptonshire Trilogy of Camberwick Green (1966), Trumpton (1967), and Chigley (1969) are located. Trumptonshire is populated by characters portrayed by 8 in tall stop-motion puppets. Trumpton is a market town with an impressive town hall and clock tower and concluded by the fire brigade band concert; Camberwick Green and Chigley are two nearby villages with one of them (Camberwick Green) featuring a musical box introducing and concluding the character and the other (Chigley) featuring a narrowboat, a crane, a beam engine a steam train and a factory whistle concluded by the Dutch organ.

Trumptonshire communities

From the dialogue of Camberwick Green it is discovered that Wellchester is the main city of Trumptonshire county. In the Chigley episode "The Balloon Flight", viewers are given sweeping aerial views across the Trumptonshire countryside and skyline; from this it is seen that Trumptonshire possesses a large medieval castle, although it is never named in the programmes. Murray is not known to have provided any definitive map of Trumptonshire. The only map regularly seen in the programmes is located in the control room of Trumpton fire station, and analysis has suggested that it actually depicts the area around Florence in Italy. Nonetheless, the following Trumptonshire settlements are identified in the storylines of the programmes.

Actual locations

The true locations on which the fictional communities were based remain uncertain. According to Murray, the three title communities are however based on real locations 1+1/2 mi from each other at the corners of an equilateral triangle. The real-life locations most frequently cited are Wivelsfield Green (Camberwick Green), Plumpton (Trumpton), and Chailey (Chigley), which are neighbouring communities in a roughly triangular configuration in Lewes District, East Sussex. In such an explanation the city of Wellchester could be Chichester. These locations have been proposed as the Trumptonshire inspiration in the mainstream British media.

VHS

Between 1996 and 1997, Telstar Video Entertainment, as part of its 'Star Kids' range released seven volumes of the Trumptonshire trilogy on video with four episodes on each of them.

DVD

Between 2001 and 2002, Telstar Video Entertainment had released three single DVDs of the whole Trumptonshire trilogy with twelve episodes on one disc and eight episodes on the other two discs, and one 3 DVD Set with the Complete Collection of thirteen episodes of each programme on three discs in the set. On 2006, Entertainment Rights released a complete DVD boxset with three separate discs of the Trumptonshire trilogy in one whole box set with 13 episodes on each disc. BBC Studios and Post Production's Digital Media Services team remastered all 39 episodes of the Trumptonshire Trilogy in 2011 for DVD release, cleaning, scanning and digitally restoring the film footage frame by frame.

References in other media

Trumptonshire was used as a hypothetical constituency by the BBC Radio 4 programme More or Less to explain how polling and voting could play out during the 2015 UK general election. In 2016, satirical magazine Private Eye published several comic strips named Trumpton, parodying the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign. The music video for Radiohead's "Burn the Witch" single pays homage to the Trumptonshire Trilogy.