Where was Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol filmed? You can buy a ticket to Depp's Victorian London

Paramount's Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol opens on November 13, 2026, with Johnny Depp as Scrooge, Ti West directing and a script by Nathaniel Halpern. Principal photography started in January 2026, with Dublin and London as the production bases, per Wikipedia). The rest of England came from Kent, where the crew filmed at the Historic Dockyard Chatham, an 80-acre site that sells tickets to anyone who wants to walk around it.

The cast around Depp includes Rupert Grint as Bob Cratchit, Ian McKellen as Jacob Marley, Andrea Riseborough as the Ghost of Christmas Past and Tramell Tillman as the Ghost of Christmas Present. The budget is about $38 million.

"He's the movie, really."

— Ti West, on Depp, via CinemaBlend

Where the crew filmed

The production hasn't published a full location list, but these are the spots that have surfaced:

• The Historic Dockyard Chatham, Kent: Confirmed by Filming in England. One location guide places several scenes inside the Sail and Colour Loft, a preserved building on the site.
• Langleybury House, Hertfordshire: The estate near Leavesden appears in the trailer when Riseborough's Ghost of Christmas Past first shows herself, per A2Z Filming Location.
• Week Street, Maidstone: Depp was spotted filming on the Kent shopping street on March 20, per MovieWalks.
• Dublin and London: The two production hubs, where the shoot began. No specific streets have been named.

Chatham is the one on that list you can actually visit. It's also the one with the best backstory.

Dickens got there first

Charles Dickens grew up around Chatham. His father, John, was a clerk in the Royal Navy pay office and was transferred to Chatham Dockyard in 1817, when Charles was 5. The family moved to Camden by the time he was 10, per Visit Medway.

So the newest Scrooge shot scenes at the dockyard where Dickens's father once did the books. The Royal Navy itself left in 1984, when Chatham Dockyard closed after roughly 400 years, and 80 of its 400 acres became the museum site, per Wikipedia.

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The dockyard's day job

Chatham has been dressing up as somewhere else for a long time. Its brick streets and rope sheds have stood in for London, Paris and a few places in between:

• 2007, Oliver Twist (BBC): Shot scenes in the Tarred Yarn Room, a former store for tarred rope.
• 2009, Sherlock Holmes: The Tarred Yarn Room became the Punchbowl Inn, per KentOnline.
• 2012, Les Misérables: Filmed at the dockyard.
• 2012 onward, Call the Midwife: The dockyard supplies most of the show's exteriors.
• 2018, Vanity Fair: London street scenes shot outside the Ropery, per the Kent Film Office.
• 2019, Pennyworth: Anchor Wharf played 1960s London.
• 2022, Enola Holmes 2: Shot in the Ropery buildings.

Bridgerton, The Crown, Loki, Great Expectations and Victor Frankenstein have all filmed there too. In 2015, the dockyard's film liaison officer Nigel Crisp told KentOnline that "filming has really picked up and we've seen a lot of big names."

How to get in

The Historic Dockyard is open from February to November. An adult ticket costs £29 online or £32.50 at the gate, a child ticket £18.50 online, and either one is valid for a year from your first visit, per Visit Medway. The ticket also gets you aboard a Cold War submarine, a WWII destroyer and a Victorian sloop, and into the quarter-mile ropery that has been making rope since 1618.

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There's no official Ebenezer tour yet. Call the Midwife fans already have one, running March to October.

Dickens left Chatham at 10. Two centuries later, his most famous miser came back to film there, and the dockyard charges £29 a head to see it, which Scrooge would call daylight robbery.