The new BBC drama Boat Story sees two strangers on a beach stumble across a washed-up fishing boat that's full of illegal drugs. Daisy Haggard and Paterson Joseph star in the six-part series which started on Sunday, November 19.

The action-thriller continues on Monday, November 20, and then returns in the same double-episode format for the next two weeks. Daisy Haggard plays factory worker Janet Campbell and Paterson Joseph co-stars as Samuel Wells, who has fled to the north of England to make a fresh start after being hounded by bailiffs because of gambling debts.

Their decisions and actions after finding the drugs trigger a chain of events involving gangsters and the police. And it's all set against the rugged backdrop of the coastline in a quiet seaside town up north. So where was it filmed? Here are the locations used for the series.

Where was Boat Story filmed?

The series is written and directed by Jack and Harry Williams. Jack confirms it was filmed in Yorkshire, where the story is set, but not all in one location. The story takes place in a fictional coastal town called Applebury, where the shipwrecked drugs cache turns up on the beach along the seafront.

Our sister title TeessideLive reported on filming taking place on the beach in February this year at Redcar, a seaside town in North Yorkshire, which was one of the main locations that doubled as Applebury. The cast and crew were based in the huge Majuba Road car park, right next to the beach, during the shoot.

Filming also took place in the North Yorkshire market town of Selby in January and February, according to our colleagues at YorkshireLive.

Paterson Joseph also recalls being in Halifax to make part of the series, including the Victorian splendour of Halifax Borough Market. He said: "Halifax was the big surprise for me and going into the covered market and finding 'the street in the sky', which is five-bedroom houses above a market. It’s a beautiful place and should be renovated as I think artists would love to live up there. I knew the Lake District quite well, but I didn't know the Yorkshire Dales and everywhere we've been, has been beautiful."

Co-writer/director Jack Williams explains how they chose the various locations in and around Leeds and York. He said: "We had pictures in our mind of where it took place. We wanted somewhere by the coast, but it wasn't going to be the depiction of a traditional British TV coastal detective drama. We started to consider how to get a touch of that, but also somewhere urban that can also be rural, and we looked at a lot of different places.

"We started from the coast and began working back and as we looked around Yorkshire and particularly Leeds and York, we found it offered a massive variety of locations to stitch together. We wanted something that felt interesting and a little different to what we've seen before. There is no town in England that offered absolutely everything that you see in this show. But it's a slightly storybook version of it, which again, felt on point thematically with what we're trying to do."