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Case file · Series 22, Episode 6 · Season 22, Episode 6

The Witches of Angel's Rise

A psychic fair opens with a ritualised death, leading Barnaby through tarot readings, spiritual businesses and an older tragedy.

Verified filming locations

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  • St John the Baptist Church · Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire

    The church serves as the parish church of fictional Angel's Rise.

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  • Dashwood Mausoleum · West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

    The hilltop mausoleum provides the setting for the Angel's Rise Psychic Fayre.

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The Witches of Angel's Rise cast

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Should I watch this one?

The occult presentation is elaborate, but the investigation keeps asking which supposedly mystical signs were arranged by very practical hands.

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Psychic fair · Tarot · Secret history
Mood
Eccentric
Team
DCI John Barnaby with DS Jamie Winter
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Why it matters

The occult presentation is elaborate, but the investigation keeps asking which supposedly mystical signs were arranged by very practical hands.

Tilly Mulroney is discovered on the first night of the Angel's Rise Psychic Fayre, surrounded by symbols that appear to give the killing a ritual meaning. A tarot card points suspicion towards reader Simeon Dagley, but his own death shows that the symbolism may be evidence planted for an audience.

Barnaby and Winter test claims made by psychics and traders while tracing the earlier death of Bea Saint-Stephens. What happened to Bea provides the missing history behind the fair's present alliances and hostilities.

  • Psychic fair
  • Tarot
  • Secret history
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Who was the killer in The Witches of Angel's Rise? (spoiler)

The ritual signs disguise a chain of responsibility reaching back to Bea's death, while Simeon's reading threatens to expose someone who knows the symbols are not supernatural at all.

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Production and cast

TV series
Series 22
Episode number
Episode 6
Written by
Maria Ward
Directed by
Gill Wilkinson
Listed transmission date(s)
13 December 2021 27 August 2023
Reported filming period
May–June 2021
Detective
DCI John Barnaby
Partner
DS Jamie Winter
Pathologist
Dr Fleur Perkins · Annette Badland
Principal setting
Angel's Rise
Casebook tone
Eccentric

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Fictional settings and real filming places are listed separately. Filming links include 1 mapped area; 2 exact sites.

Credits and archive connections

  • Writer credits4 episodes credited to Maria Ward
  • Director credits3 episodes directed by Gill Wilkinson
  • Release positionCase 132 of 144
  • Story characterEccentric · Psychic fair · Tarot
  • Location evidence2 exact screen-use matches
A monumental fairground

The Dashwood Mausoleum at West Wycombe supplies the striking setting for the Angel's Rise Psychic Fayre.

Angel's Rise church

St John the Baptist Church in Little Missenden appears as the fictional village church.

Sources for the production file

Published episode chronology and credits ↗Official ITV programme page ↗Filming-location reference index ↗

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The performers behind this case

Core cast

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Forensic team

Dr Fleur Perkins

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Resident pathologist
Played by
Annette Badland
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Spoiler-controlled deaths

Deaths recorded in this case

3 people die in this case, according to the linked death record.

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  1. Tilly Mulroney

    Murder · Other recorded death

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  2. Simeon Dagley

    Murder · Strangulation or hanging

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  3. Bea Saint-Stephens

    Accidental, natural or other · Other recorded death · historical or before the main case

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Series 22 · episode 6 · checked 15 September 2026

Who was the killer in The Witches of Angel's Rise? (spoiler)

Jonas Wakefield

Jonas killed Tilly Mulroney and Simeon Dagley after their tarot readings and messages about his late partner Bea Saint-Stephens challenged his refusal to accept an afterlife. He used occult objects and staging to redirect suspicion towards believers, then threatened Hattie Bainbridge during the final séance; Bea's earlier fall from the tower remains a separate tragic accident.

Verified motive

Jonas's unresolved grief for Bea hardened into a refusal to accept that she might exist in an afterlife without him. He experienced Tilly and Simeon's messages as a torturous challenge to science, medicine and finality, killed them to silence that challenge and staged occult evidence against believers; Hattie's similar message made her the interrupted next target.

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Where was The Witches of Angel's Rise filmed?

West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Dashwood Mausoleum

Used as: The hilltop mausoleum provides the setting for the Angel's Rise Psychic Fayre.

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Wider filming areas

Places connected to this file

St John the Baptist Church in Little Missenden
Buckinghamshire

Little Missenden

Filming guide for Little Missenden.

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