Flaxborough is a fictitious town in Lincolnshire, created by author and local journalist Colin Watson as the background for a series of comical detective novels (The Flaxborough Chronicles) featuring Detective Inspector Walter Purbright.
[4] The descriptions of the townscape, and in particular Lucilla Teatime's antiques business or charity offices, most closely resemble Louth.
[5][6] In the BBC television adaptation Murder Most English, most locations were filmed in Spalding.
The four books adapted were Hopjoy Was Here, Lonelyheart 4122, The Flaxborough Crab and Coffin, Scarcely Used.
The series was dramatised by Richard Harris, produced by Martin Lisemore and directed by Ronald Wilson.