If you’re one of the 24 million players who engaged in automotive carnage on the Xbox game Forza Horizon 4, you’d know how much of a treat it was to have an open world driving game set in the UK. There have been a few but they’ve been sparse. The original Midnight Club, the original Midtown Madness, Watch Dogs: Legion, and The Italian Job were all set in condensed versions of London.
One major exception was The Getaway series, with a fantastically detailed setting featuring realistic cars and recognisable streets and shop fronts. However, Forza Horizon 4 was the first game to take that to the British countryside and what a treat that was. Narrow lanes, small villages, hedge rows, and motorway gantries - all waiting for you to power slide your virtual vehicle into at 100mph.
READ MORE: 17 Video games you loved to play that were made right here in Warwickshire In Warwickshire , one of the biggest landmarks in the game is hidden away just outside Leamington Spa . But you wouldn’t know it. In the game, it has a location marked “Broadway Windmill”, just outside a recreation of the Cotswold village of Broadway.
However, the real one is actually Chesterton Windmill, just over 40 miles northeast of Broadway. The 15th century windmill is a beautiful lone structure that towers over the rolling hills of South Warwickshire. Built by landowner Edward Peyto for his now-demolished stately home Chesterton House, it is an ideal place to escape the rush of modern life and immerse o.