Miss Marple (TV series) in "The Murder at the Vicarage" and '"The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side". Rhoda Lewis is village shopkeeper and postmistress Mrs Brogan in "A Pocketful of Rye", "4.50 from Paddington" and "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side". BBC producer Guy Slater cast Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. The series was filmed beginning in 1983 in areas including Norfolk, Devon, Oxfordshire and Barbados. The town of Nether Wallop, Hampshire doubled as Miss Marple's home village of St. Mary Mead. Slater was replaced by producer George Gallaccio starting with the fourth film. Hickson vowed not to do another film after
Marple South and High Lane (Stockport electoral ward) Marple South and High Lane (Stockport electoral ward) Marple South and High Lane is an electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport. It elects three Councillors to Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council using the first past the post electoral method, electing one Councillor every year without election on the fourth. It covers the southern part of Marple. Together with Bredbury & Woodley, Bredbury Green and Romiley, Hazel Grove, Marple North, and Offerton it constitutes the Hazel Grove Parliamentary constituency. Marple South and High Lane is also home to the Marple Sixth Form College, which is part of Cheadle and Marple