Trumpton is a market town with an impressive town hall and clock tower and concluded by the fire brigade band concert; Camberwick Green and Chigley are two nearby villages with one of them (Camberwick Green) featuring a musical box introducing and concluding the character and the other (Chigley) featuring a narrowboat, a crane, a beam engine a steam train and a factory whistle concluded by the Dutch organ.
The only map regularly seen in the programmes is located in the control room of Trumpton fire station, and analysis has suggested that it actually depicts the area around Florence in Italy.
According to Murray, the three title communities are however based on real locations one and a half miles (2.4 km) from each other at the corners of an equilateral triangle.
Trumptonshire was used as a hypothetical constituency by the BBC Radio 4 programme More or Less to explain how polling and voting could play out during the 2015 UK general election.
In 2016, satirical magazine Private Eye published several comic strips named Trumpton, parodying the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign.