Lark Rise to Candleford | Cast List

Screen Character - Actor/Actress

Candleford (Wealthy Town)

Laura Timmins - Olivia Hallinan

Dorcas Lane - Julia Sawalha

Zillah - Liz Smith

Thomas Brown - Mark Heap

Mathew Welby - Stephen Marcus

Pearl Pratt - Matilda Ziegler

Ruby Pratt - Victoria Hamilton

Sir Timothy Midwinter - Ben Miles

Lady Adelaide Midwinter - Olivia Grant

Philip White - Oliver Jackson Cohen

Constable "Cabbage" Patterson - Jason Watkins

Adult Laura - Sarah Lancashire

Rushden - Ben Daniels

Mrs Macey - Claire Skinner

Dan Macey - Danny Webb

Freddy Macey - Beans Balawi

Old Amos - Peter Wright

Young Amos - Craig Parkinson

Patty - Camille Coduri

Miss Ellison - Sandy McDale

Reverend Ellison - Peter Vaughan

Brewery Salesman - Paul Reynolds

Jerry (the Fishmonger) - Julian Rivett

Young Footman - Joseph Kloska

James Delafield - Stephen Cambell Moore

Lark Rise (small rural hamlet)

Robert Timmins - Brendon Coyle

Emma Timmins - Claudia Blakley

Caroline Arless - Dawn French

Alf Arless - John Dalgleish

Queenie Turrill - Linda Bassett

Twister Turrill - Karl Johnson

Mr Paxton - Gerrard Horan

Susan Braby - Nicola Stephenson

Sam Braby - Nigel Harman

Toby - Toby Clifford

Lizzie Arless - Hope Yoemans

Fergus Timmins - Fergus Drysdale

Edmund Timmins - Thomas Rhys Jones

Ethel Timmins - Martha Murdock

Tilda Arless - Sophie Miles

Wally Arless- Harry Miles

Behind the scenes

Executive producers - Bill Gallagher and Sue Hogg

Director - Charles Palmer

Producer - Grainne Marmion

Comments and Observations
NB: Dorcas (not Dorcus) This is a great name, hopefully Lark Rise to Candleford will bring this name back into popular use with a flood of little Dorcas' starting school in appoximately 5 years time. You will not be able to move for them soon!

Also, Caroline Arless played by Dawn French was sent to prison in one of the early episodes which has vastly improved the series. I am hoping she does not get released back into the community any time soon.

Cabbage Patterson, now that is another great name, but it was not revealed how he came to have such an usual moniker during the programme. In one scene, in Paxton's public house, a cabbage rolled down the stairs and landed at Constable Patterson's feet. This was greeted with laughter by the locals of Lark Rise.