Where is Peaky Blinders filmed? All the locations as Series 6 returns

The final explosive series of Peaky Blinders will return to the BBC this month, and fans are getting excited about seeing Tommy Shelby and his family back on screen.

The period drama has played out over six series, showing the gangsters of the Shelby family rise to prominence in 1920s Birmingham.

But while the show is famously set in the Small Heath area of Birmingham, in recent years filming has mostly been in and around the north west, with Manchester and Liverpool's atmospheric streets and waterways used to double for Brum in the action.

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Series six was no different, with film crews and the show's star Cillian Murphy who plays Tommy spotted out in Castlefield and Manchester for filming over several weeks last spring and summer.

Here we take a look at some of the filming locations used for the action in series 6 - and the good news is many of the locations you can visit for yourself across the region.

While a range of Manchester's old cobbled streets have been used in past series to double as Birmingham, for series six the whole of Castlefield was taken over for several weeks to fully embody 1930s Small Heath.

The real Small Heath is an area south east of Birmingham, where the real Peaky Blinders were thought to have first emerged, terrorising the streets from the 1890s through to the 1910s.

But Peaky Blinders' director Anthony Byrne decided to take over the whole of Castlefield for series six filming to create the show's Garrison Lane and Small Heath - thanks to its atmospheric mix of canals, bridges and cobbled streets.

Writing on Instagram, Anthony wrote: "We took over Castlefield in Manchester and turned it into the