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Is Gotham a real city, where is the E4 show filmed and is it connected to the village in Nottinghamshire?

Here's the goss on Gotham City, stomping ground of the Caped Crusader

GOTHAM City has been home to The Batman for almost eight decades.

Here is all you need to know about the crime ridden conurbation the Dark Knight has tried to keep safe for all that time.

 Here's the goss on Gotham City, stomping ground of the Caped Crusader
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Here's the goss on Gotham City, stomping ground of the Caped CrusaderCredit: Getty - Contributor

Is Gotham a real city?

Though Gotham may be very real to comic book fans the city is in fact completely fictitious.

It was first identified the stomping ground of the Caped Crusader in 1940 by writer Bill Finger.

In the DC Universe the city is said to be in the state of New Jersey not too far from Superman's home Metropolis.

Estimations of Gotham's population have varied from between 10 million in the comic books to 30 million in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy.

 The TV series is filmed in New York City
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The TV series is filmed in New York CityCredit: Getty - Contributor

Where is the TV series Gotham Filmed?

The TV show Gotham, starring Ben McKenzie, is mainly filmed in New York City.

The Big Apple's five boroughs are given a gritty make over for the dark cop show which has just begun its fourth season.

Bayley Seton Hospital on Staten Island poses as the foreboding Arkham Asylum, home to Gotham's criminally insane such as The Joker.

Other areas of Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan Island also stand in for various areas of the City.

Bruce Wayne's family home of Wayne Manor in the series is depicted using the Stevenson Taylor Hall building of the Webb Institute engineering college in Glen Cove, Long Island.

 The Dark Knight's crime ridden conurbation shares its name with a sleepy Nottinghamshire village
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The Dark Knight's crime ridden conurbation shares its name with a sleepy Nottinghamshire villageCredit: Alamy

Is it linked to the Nottinghamshire village of the same name?

Gotham, Nottinghamshire, does have a loose connection to the home of the Wayne family.

Thought actually pronounced "goat-ham" the locals have grown accustomed to quips about the fictional town that shares its name.

According to folklore the village is inhabited by fools and as a result was used as a nickname for New York by political satirists in the 19th century.

The Joker references this in Detective Comics #880, in which he tells Batman the name means "a safe place for goats".

Creator Bill Finger said he happened across the name scouring the New York City phone book for inspiration when he found the name "Gotham Jewellers".

The English village is first mentioned directly in a story called Cityscape, in The Batman Chronicles #6 in 1996 by a villain explaining Gotham's founding.

A sneak peek at the hotly-anticipated Gotham season 4


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