 Almost all locations used for filming were the genuine locations  where the events occurred. The tea shop where Honora Parker ate her  last meal was knocked down a few days after the shoot ended.  According to director Peter Jackson (I) (qv), when they got to the  location of the murder on the dirt path, it was eerily quiet; the  birds stopped singing, and it didnt seem right. So they moved along  a couple of hundred yards.