Where Is Top Boy Shot? London Filming Locations For The Netflix Show Revealed

4 September 2019, 10:44 | Updated: 18 August 2023, 11:19

We reveal the filming locations in London and Margate for Netflix's Top Boy. Picture: Netflix

As Top Boy returns for its final season, we take a look at the London filming locations used by Netflix.

Netflix's Top Boy is back on our screens for its final season this September, as Ashley Walters and Kano are back to reprise their roles as DuShane and Sully amongst other cast members.

The streaming platform has revealed small snippets of the plot: "The rules that Sully and Dushane have lived by their whole lives are tested in an ever-changing world in a final chapter that will decide who can reign as Top Boy of Summerhouse."

The show may be set in a fictitious housing estate in Hackney, London, but the areas they film the show are real. Here are some of the filming locations used for the Netflix reboot.

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Where is Netflix's Top Boy filmed?

The majority of Top Boy is filmed in Hackney and other areas in East London. Picture: Getty

Hackney, London

While the housing complex's name isn't real, the De Beauvoir estate that it's based on is. The majority of filming takes place in the Hackney area, near Haggerston and Dalston.

In January this year, Top Boy actors were also spotted filming an intense police chase scene in the streets of London, which saw actors dressed as armed police circle around an actor in a white cap and maroon tracksuit.

The Top Boy cast were filming an intense police chase scene in London earlier this year. Picture: Splash

Previous series of the show were shot in Millennium Mills, Walworth Academy and a snooker hall in Stoke Newington.

Londoners may also recognise Whipps Cross Hospital in Leytonstone, The Vlamont Club in Fulham Road, Queensway's bowling alleys and scenes in Elephant and Castle.

Other scenes for Top Boy have been filmed in Stratford, East London for the final season.

Some scenes from Top Boy 3 were actually filmed in Margate in Kent. Picture: Getty

Margate, Kent

Camera crews were spotted setting up shop in the Kent seaside town of Margate last year, where they filmed scenes in Polish supermarket, Nazsa Biedronka and the famous Art Deco Lido.