The Inspector Morse TV franchise has brought in millions of pounds of tourism cash to Oxford over 30 years.

Fans of the Inspector Morse, Lewis and Endeavour TV series have visited the city to see the locations and inevitably sought out the pubs they saw on screen.

While some of the pubs used as locations were actually out of the county many were not and here we are featuring 10 hostelries which have appeared in TV episodes over more than three decades.

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The TV dramas are based on characters created by Oxford author Colin Dexter, who died in 2017.

1: The White Horse in Broad Street and The Old Bookbinders Ale House in Jericho featured in the first ever Inspector Morse episode, The Dead of Jericho in 1987.

2: The Turf Tavern and The Jericho Tavern are in The Silent Word of Nicholas Quinn.

3: The Randolph Hotel bar and the Trout Inn are in The Wolvercote Tongue.

4: The Boat Inn at Thrupp near Kidlington is in The Last Enemy.

5: The Eagle and Child is in episode two of series nine of Endeavour. The pub is currently closed but it has been bought by a tech company which plans to reopen it.

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6: The White Horse appears again in The Secret of Bay 5B.

7: The Trout Inn appears again in Second Time Around, while the Eagle and Child doubles as Shears wine bar.

8: The Victoria Arms in Old Marston is in Who Killed Harry Field?

9: The Turf Tavern is in Dead On Time

10: Lewis (Kevin Whately) follows a prisoner into the Bear Inn in Absolute Conviction.

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Mr Dexter was often given cameo roles in the TV dramas, and liked to drink at the Randolph Hotel where a bar has been named in his honour.

He died in 2017 and said in his will he wanted Endeavour to be the final TV series.

Pubs across the city, where Morse visited in the TV series, continue to benefit from tourists calling in.

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Dave Richardson, a spokesman for Oxford CAMRA, said: "Many thousands of tourists over the years have come in search of pubs they have seen on the TV series, including the Victoria Arms, the White Horse and the Old Bookbinders Ale House.

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"The Angel and Greyhound once had a sign up outside saying 'we are the only pub Inspector Morse never visited."

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Chris Sullivan runs the Morse, Lewis and Endeavour website and has listed all the pubs which appear in episodes of the three series.

In Endeavour the young Morse has to take a break from Oxford because of a problem with alcohol.

The final episode of the last series of Endeavour was screened in March.

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This story was written by Andy Ffrench, he joined the team more than 20 years ago and now covers community news across Oxfordshire.

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