Where was Harry Potter filmed: the most famous places. Places where Harry Potter was filmed
Harry Potter filming locations This story of a young wizard and his friends has long attracted the interest of millions of fans. Books and films are sold all over the world in huge circulations, and the most ardent idols are actively interested not only in the storyline, but also in the personal lives of the actors, the filming process and even the places where each of the seven films was filmed.
The Harry Potter filming locations are visited by many tourists every day, but finding a complete list on the Internet is quite difficult. Usually on sites you can find no more than 10-15 points from all filming locations. But in this article you can find out about 53 places at once by reading their brief descriptions and seeing visual, real photos. The interactive map will help you get as much information as possible about each point, so the article will be a real find for true fans of the novels and will become a mini-guide for those who want to personally visit all the Harry Potter filming locations.
The Dursley family home, where Harry lives in a cupboard under the stairs before being invited to Hogwarts School, is actually a private house in Berkshire (12 Picket Post Close, Martins Heron).
Before Harry finds out that he is a wizard, he talks to a huge snake (Regent Street).
During the filming of “The Philosopher’s Stone,” this pub was located on the Ledengole market, and the entrance to it was just an empty store. However, it is now an optical shop, “The Glass House” (42 Bull’s Head Passage, Leadenhall Market and then 7 Stoney St., London).
The Gringotts bank scenes were filmed in the Australia House showroom. Although you won't be able to go into the building, you can look through the window and see the room that was used to film the film.
The platform that wizards and witches used to get to platform 9 ¾ is actually located between platforms 4 and 5 at King's Cross station.
The station serving Hogsmeade and Hogwarts is actually Goathland Station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway line (Goathland Station, North Yorkshire).
The corridor that leads to the fat lady and the Gryffindor common room is in the cloister of Gloucester Cathedral. In Chamber of Secrets, this is the same corridor in which Ginny Weasley writes in blood on the wall “The Chamber of Secrets is open again.”
In Goblet of Fire, the scene where everyone is wearing a badge that says “Potter is a stinker” was filmed in the monastery of New College in Oxford. There, Mad-Eye Moody turns Draco Malfoy into a ferret.
The snowy courtyard where Harry first releases his owl Hedwig (Hedwig) is actually part of Durham Cathedral. This is where Ron Weasley spews out slugs in Chamber of Secrets.
The office of Snape, the gloomy potions teacher, is located in the sacristy of Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire (The Sacristy, Lacock Abbey).
Also located in Wiltshire Abbey. There is a genuine cauldron here ((The Warming Room, Lacock Abbey).
The room where Harry finds the mirror that showed him his dead parents in Philosopher's Stone is again in Lacock Abbey. In The Chamber of Secrets, the same room is used by Professor McGonagall for lessons on turning animals into goblets (Chapter House, Lacock Abbey).
Madame Trick's first lesson is held outside Alnwick Castle in Northumberland (The Outer Bailey, Alnwick Castle).
Professor Flitwick's office, in which Hermione very successfully masters the levitation spell “Wingardium Leviosa” on a pen, is located at Harrow School, Middlesex County (Fourth Form Room, Harrow School).
The school library is located in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. In Chamber of Secrets, Hermione finds information about Polyjuice Potion here, and in Half-Blood Prince, she and Harry discuss Horace Slughorn's Christmas party here (Duke Humphrey's Library, Oxford University).
Hogwarts Hospital is actually located in one of the buildings at Oxford University. Here, in “The Goblet of Fire,” Professor McGonagall teaches Ron ballroom dancing before Christmas (Divinity School, Oxford University).
In Chamber of Secrets, Harry sees memories of Tom Riddle and Professor Dumbledore talking. This was filmed at Oxford University (Christs Church, Oxford University).
Although in the film the car appears to take off from outside King's Cross station, the scene was actually filmed in the vicinity of St Pancras International station, London.
The Weasley family home was specially built for Chamber of Secrets, directly opposite the main building of Leavesden Studios (the studio where the film was filmed) in Hertfordshire. However, in The Half-Blood Prince, the Burrow was located near the town of Weymouth, in the habitat of swans (Gypsy Lane, Abbots Langley, then the Swnery, Abbotsbury).
While rushing to school, Harry and Ron are nearly involved in an accident over a train on Glenfinnan Viaduct, Lochaber.
At first, Hagrid's hut was located in Black Park Country Park, Buckinghamshire. This is where she was in the Goblet of Fire when Hagrid shows Harry the dragons before the Triwizard Tournament.
In Order of the Phoenix she moves to (Black Park, Buckinghamshire, then Clachaig Gully, Scotland)
The lake on the shore of which Hogwarts stands is actually Loch Shiel in Scotland (Loch Shiel, Glencoe).
This is Lake Virginia Water in Surrey, over which Harry Potter flies on a hippogriff in Prisoner of Azkaban. In Goblet of Fire, this is where Hermione mediates communication between Harry and Ron after their quarrel, and where Mad-Eye Moody argues with Barty Crouch Sr. (Virginia Water, Surrey).
In Prisoner of Azkaban, a bus picks Potter up from Dowding Way, a housing estate next to Leavesden Studios in Dowding Way, Hertfordshire.
After boarding, the bus takes Harry along Green Lanes in Palmers Green, passes through Bourne Hill and then turns left into Park Avenue before dropping him off at the Leaky Cauldron (Green Lanes, Bourne Hill, Park Avenue, Lambeth Bridge) .
In Goblet of Fire, on the way to the championship, Mr. Weasley and Harry Potter encounter Cedric Diggory. It takes place in Ashridge Woods (Ashridge Woods, Hemel Hempstead).
At the beginning of the film Goblet of Fire, Harry and Weasley find an old shoe, which turns out to be a portal. This scene was filmed in Beacon Hill, near the town of Berkhamsted (Beacon Hill, Berkhamsted).
After moving through the portal, everyone ends up at the Seven Sisters Cliffs, Sussex.
Harry fights a dragon in Glen Nevis, Scotland (Steall Falls, Glen Nevis).
At the beginning of Order of the Phoenix, Mad-Eye Moody and his friends pick up Harry from his house, flying on brooms along the Thames (Canary Wharf, the HMS Belfast, Tower Bridge, the Houses of Parliament).
After these breathtaking flights, they find themselves at the house of Sirius Black, which is used as the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix. The house is located on the south side of Claremont Square, Islington.
The Ministry of Magic is located between the Houses of Parliament in Westminster (Whitehall, London).
When Mr. Weasley takes Harry to the Ministry of Magic, they end up at Westminster Station. “Trains underground! They are geniuses, these Muggles!” – he exclaims (Westminster Station, London).
In real life, this booth does not exist in that place; the filming location was not far from Scotland Yard. This is also where Harry, Ron and Hermione “knock out” three Ministry employees in order to obtain the ingredients for a polyjuice potion in “The Deathly Hallows: Part One” (Great Scotland Yard, London).
In Order of the Phoenix, Harry has a flashback of his father abusing Snape. The scene was filmed in the city of Woodstock, where Winston Churchill was born (Blenheim Palace, Woodstock).
At the beginning of Half-Blood Prince, a group of Muggles see Death Eaters flying past their office building. This is City Hall in London (City Hall, Queen's Walk).
After the destruction of the Millennium Bridge, they find themselves on Great Newport Street, which is the entrance to Diagon Alley (Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross Road, Garrick Theater and Leicester Square Station, Great Newport Street, the Millennium Bridge).
The cafe where Harry reads the Daily Prophet is actually Café Chaud on platforms 1 and 2 of Surbiton station. Harry notices Professor Dumbledore standing on Platform 1, Surbiton Station.
After meeting at the station, Dumbledore takes Harry to Horace Slughorn's house in Wiltshire (Chapel Hill, Lacock).
The cave in which Dumbledore and Harry Potter try to obtain the Horcrux is located at the foot of the Cliffs of Moher, on the Atlantic coast of County Clare (Cliffs of Moher, Ireland).
Although the scene in which the two retrieve the Horcrux was filmed at the Cliffs of Moher, the cliff where they appeared is 90 miles away. This is Lemon Rock, off the Iveragh Peninsula (Lemon Rock, County Kerry).
The heartbreaking scene in which Hermione erases herself from her parents' memories in Deathly Hallows: Part One was filmed in Heathgate, Hampstead Garden Suburb.
In Deathly Hallows: Part One, Snape goes to Malfoy Manor to meet Voldemort. This mansion is Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire.
When Hagrid is being chased by Death Eaters in the first Deathly Hallows, he flies into the south side of the Dartford Tunnel, which runs under the river. However, inside it is already another tunnel - the Birkenhead Queensway under the Mersey River (Dartford Tunnel, London, and Queensbay Birkenhead Tunnel, Liverpool).
The toilet where Ministry employees flush themselves is located at the intersection of Horse Guards Avenue and Whitehall Street. In real life there are no toilets there (gentlemen’s toilet, Horse Guards Avenue).
After receiving the Horcrux in Deathly Hallows: Part One, Ron is disintegrated during a transgression into Burnham Beeches, South Buckinghamshire.
The only scene from Harry Potter that was filmed outside. In "The Half-Blood Prince" we see a train traveling on the Raumabanen railway between Oslo and the Norwegian fjords.
In London, in the suburb of Watford, there is the famous Warner Bros. Studio, in the pavilions of which all 8 episodes of the most popular series of all time about Harry Potter were filmed. Anyone can take a tour of this studio. All exhibits presented are real participants in the filming of the great saga. Let's take a walk through the studio pavilions together.
1. Entrance to the Harry Potter Museum.
2. The studio can be reached by company buses either from central London, from Victoria Station (adult ticket - £29, child - £26), or from the nearest Watford Junction railway station (adult ticket - £2, child - £1 ,5).
3. It’s best to book the tickets themselves via the Internet: the schedule for visiting the studio is very tight, and through the World Wide Web you can choose the most convenient time. Ticket prices: adults - £30.00, children - £22.50. Group and family discounts are also available.
4. In front of the entrance to the main pavilion there are giant figures, participants in a chess battle from the film about the Philosopher's Stone.
5. Main hall. From here you can get to the exhibition itself, visit a cafe or go to a store. There are a lot of people.
6. It will be useful to rent a device with a map of the area and voice guidance for the excursion. Russian language is supported.
7. The room in which Harry lived with his deliberately inadequate relatives.
8. School canteen.
9. At the tables in the dining room there are mannequins dressed in the uniforms of different faculties of the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Hufflepuff House Uniform.
10. At the head of the school canteen there are mannequins dressed in exactly the clothes in which the professors of the school of magic were filmed throughout all the episodes. “Before the banquet begins, I would like to say a few words. And my words will be like this: Berk! Bubble! Remainder! Trick! That’s it, thank you everyone!” (A. Dumbledore).
11. An exhibition dedicated to all the directors who shot various parts of the film story.
12. Throughout the exhibition, projects for future huge buildings are placed here and there.
13. Colorful drinks from a pile of ice cubes around an ice sculpture. "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - A Christmas Waltz."
14. Stand about the design of costumes and wigs.
15. Gate to Hogwarts.
16. Leaky cauldron, symbol of the bar of the same name.
17. Boys' room.
18. The Gryffindor Round Room, also known as the Living Room. Located in Gryffindor Tower.
19. Hogwarts clock pendulum from “Prisoner of Azkaban.”
20. A gargoyle guards the door to Professor Dumbledore's office and opens the door after pronouncing the correct password.
21. Professor Albus Dumbledore's office.
22. Warehouse of magical potions and the room of the dean of Slytherin, potions professor Severus Snape.
23. All the pictures hung along the corridors of Hogwarts were actually drawn by artists, and later animated using special technology.
24. Door to the Chamber of Secrets.
25. The technology of levitation on magic brooms is described here.
26. The Weasley family home is “The Burrow”. It later became the second home for Harry Potter. A completely magical home: the objects in the room live their own separate lives (both in the film and at the exhibition).
27. Also here you can improve your skill with magic wands.
28. Everything pink should belong to Dolores Umbridge. "Cough-cough."
29. Teleportation fireplaces in the Ministry of Magic.
30. The famous purple three-decker bus “Night Knight”.
31. House number 4 Privet Drive is the house in which Harry Potter was raised by his adoptive parents.
32. A piece of the Wooden Bridge - the Hogwarts bridge connecting the Stone Circle and the school courtyard. You can walk along it.
33. The house where Harry's parents were killed.
34. Tom Riddle's gravestone.
35. Next there is a large pavilion “Creature Effects department”, telling about the process of creating and animating various scary little dirty tricks. The creepiest exhibit is the head of the mermaid Medusa. There is no part of the mermaid left, but the head is terrifying and active.
36. Buckbeak is a good hippogriff.
37. Diagon Alley. The only place in London where you can buy a magical animal, a flying broom, a magic wand and many other amazing things and miraculous goods.
38. Picture gallery with sketches of future characters and buildings. And drawings for creating building models.
39. The pearl of the exhibition is an exact model of Hogwarts castle on a scale of 1:24. The first model was built for the filming of the first film, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. 86 artists and technicians worked on the model. Over the course of subsequent episodes, the model was rebuilt several times to fit the storyline. Such colossal work was done that if it had been done by 1 person, it would have taken him 74 years. The complete lighting cycle above the model changes every 4 minutes to show all possible times of day. All doors are hinged and real landscaping plants are used. Incredible detail!
40. In the last room of the exhibition there are boxes of magic wands. The names of people involved in the creation of all episodes of the film are printed on the end of each box. A special employee walks around the room, who can be brought to absolutely any box and he will tell you everything about the person mentioned on the box.
41. At the exit from the filming pavilions there is a Harry Potter souvenir shop. Here you can buy Nimbus-2000.
Books about the legendary wizard have been studied far and wide, films have been watched several times, and you still want to continue the feeling of miracle... Well, this is quite real! INTime to get ready for a real trip! And see with your own eyes the places Harry Potter visited!
By the way, a tour to such places is one of the most popular in the UK! People from all over the world come to admire the beauty that they saw in the Harry films. Come on, let's join them ;)
Kings Cross Station
This magical place is located in northeast London. This is where Harry Potter found platform9¾. And now every tourist can take a photo near it;)
Alnwick Castle
Although JK Rowling claims that Hogwarts is located somewhere in Scotland, the authors of the film about Harry Potter found a worthy real replacement for it in the north of England. Here it is - Alnwick Castle in Northumberland. This building is over 700 years old!
Oxford University
Even someone who has only seen one of the Harry Potter films with one eye must certainly remember what it looks like Great Hall of Hogwarts- exactly the one where many candles burn in the evening. Yes, yes, exactly the one where students are assigned to faculties. All scenes with the Great Hall were filmed in Christ Church- one of the most aristocratic colleges of Oxford University. By visiting it, you will feel the atmosphere of Hogwarts;)
Hogwarts Library- the place is no less atmospheric! In the film, it was embodied in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, one of the oldest in Europe.
Leadenhall Market
Do you remember Obliquelane, where could wizards buy all the supplies they needed? So, all the scenes with this place were filmed on the territory of London's Leadenhall Market, which has existed since the Middle Ages.
The village of Lacock in Wiltshire
Here she is - Godric's Hollow, home of the Potter family. Its embodiment in the film was the village of Lacock - one of the oldest places in Great Britain.
Harry Potter Museum
If you are a film buff, be sure to check out Harry Potter Museum in Watford- on the outskirts of London. There is a film studio here, which Warner Bros. turned into the magical world of Harry Potter. Getting there is like being on the other side of the screen, in your favorite movie, walking between the scenery and looking at all the little things dear to your heart!
Well, is it fascinating? I wish that very soon you will have the opportunity to see all this with your own eyes!
I grew up reading the Harry Potter books. With what impatience I waited for the next part of the saga, and with what delight I plunged into the magical world of the “boy with the scar.” Every year I waited for a letter from Hogwarts to come to me, but I never did. The owl didn't come. But even now I often re-read this story and with the same pleasure I wander the night corridors of the school of witchcraft.
Where is Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
If an owl doesn’t fly to me, it means I’m a Muggle and I won’t see Hogwarts, no matter how much I want to. After all, this the castle is enchanted, And a common person on his place will see only old ruins with the inscription "Danger". According to book author JK Rowling, lock located in Scotland. Images from the film partially confirm this. If you read the book carefully, you will find out that Hogwarts was founded a thousand years agoago by four powerful wizards:
- Salazar Slytherin;
- Godric Gryffindor;
- Rowena Ravenclaw;
- Helga Hufflepuff.
But over time, a clash occurred between them. Slytherin opposed everyone and demanded to school Only purebred wizards studied. The other three did not agree with this. Slytherin left the foursome.
Hogwarts- the only school in the UK.Education lasts here 7 years, and at the end of the 5th and 7th grades exams are taken - the so-called “owls”. Training is free, but the student must buy the wand, pot, ingredients for the potion and textbooks at his own expense. It is not necessary to buy a broom; you can fly with a school one. But school brooms are like “Zaporozhets” for Muggles.
The real Hogworth
Although Hogworth doesn't exist, there is a good substitute for Muggles. This Alnwick Castle. It is located on the border with Scotland in Northumberland. It was here that Harry learned to fly on a broom and caught his Snitch. But the castle's history is not limited to just the "boy who lived." His story goes back to 11th century, and the castle itself is quite richly decorated. His used Not only for the filming of "Harry Potter", but also many other historical films.
A model and a collective image of the castle were also used for filming. Territory Forbidden Forest belongs Black Park, which is located in Buckinghamshire. As Hogswarts dining room used dining room of one of the Oxford colleges.
Filming in the library took place in Bodleian Library. And as a Hogwarts corridors were used corridors of Gloucester Cathedral.
The fantastic saga of Harry Potter has long ended, but fans continue to be concerned about the question of where Hogwarts really is. It was in this castle and its surroundings that all the main events took place with the participation of the young wizard.
For any fan of JK Rowling's work, visiting Hogwarts is very important. It’s best to first find out where this educational institution is located from books.
According to the plot of the work
The writer herself hinted in some interviews that the school of witchcraft is located in Scotland. It was there that she found inspiration for writing her books. Images from the film confirm these revelations.
It is not possible for an ordinary Muggle to understand where Hogwarts School is located. This place is enchanted, and even if an ordinary person approaches the castle, he will only see ruins with a prohibitory sign.
It is also impossible to cross the Hogwarts border. This can be done at a certain time and in a strictly limited place. There are no usual technical innovations at the school, since the use of any energy other than magical energy is unacceptable.
Not far from the castle is the village of Hogsmeade, where only magicians live. It is at Hogsmeade station that the train with students arrives.
Other schools of witchcraft are mentioned in the film:
- Salem Witch Institute (possibly USA).
- Beauxbatons (France).
- Brazilian school of magic.
- Durmstrang School of Magicians (possibly Holland).
Of course, there is magic and all the characters - but the filming was carried out in real architectural and natural objects. Although it was not without a layout. It was built on the site of the Warner Brothers film studio. Next we will talk about where Hogwarts castle and its main premises are located.
Top Hogwarts School Places Worth Knowing About
Adherents of the saga, of course, would like Hogwarts, where the “city” of magic is located - many secret places - and the main events take place, to be a single ensemble. However, this is not the case, so in order to visit all parts of the fictional castle, the tourist will have to travel quite a bit. Although, without a doubt, it's worth it.
What places are worth visiting while traveling in the footsteps of Harry Potter and his friends? Here is a sample list:
- Hogwarts Castle - Northumberland County.
- Dark Forest - Buckinghamshire.
- Dining room - Oxford.
- Library - Oxford.
- Chamber of Secrets - Wiltshire.
- Castle corridors - Gloucester Cathedral.
- King's Cross Station - London.
- Hogsmeade Station - Gotland, Yorkshire.
Hogwarts Castle
The actual castle where filming took place is Alnwick. It is located in Northumberland, on the border with Scotland. It was in the courtyard of this ancient castle that wizards played Quidditch and learned to fly on brooms.
Alnwick's history is not limited to the Harry Potter film. Information about it dates back to 1096. It has always been known for its interior decoration, art galleries, and library. It was used to film films about Robin Hood, Queen Elizabeth, and Knight Ivanhoe. In the film saga based on the books by JK Rowling, it turned into Hogwarts.
Thousands of readers dreamed of finding out where this magical place is located. That is why Alnwick Castle has attracted special attention, which has not faded for many years.
However, the film was not filmed only in the pavilion and Alnwick. The directors created a collective image of the school, combining many fascinating places.
forbidden Forest
According to the plot, the school of witchcraft is located near a forest in which unicorns and sinister werewolves live. The real location for filming was Black Park, which is located in Buckinghamshire. The atmosphere of the forest did not have to be supplemented with decorations, since the forest itself is so dense that even on a sunny day there is twilight.
Dining room
The dining room often appears in the frame. It is here that young wizards begin and end the school year in each episode of the film saga. It is not located in Alnwick. This is actually the dining hall of Christ Church College, which is part of Oxford.
This educational institution has a long history. At one time, Lewis Carroll, the author of “Alice in Wonderland,” and the world-famous scientist Albert Einstein graduated from it. Other equally famous students were the outstanding writers Oscar Wilde and John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
Library
Oxford provided another filming location for the creation of Hogwarts School. Where is the book depository where young Hermione loved to get information? Everything took place in the famous Bodleian Library of a famous university. It belonged to Duke Humphrey. It is still considered the oldest and largest repository of books in Western Europe.
Castle corridors
The corridors along which the students of the school of magic and wizardry ran are actually located in Their fan vaults are mesmerizing in their appearance. The cathedral itself was erected in the 14th century in the southwest lands of England. It is rightfully considered a pearl of architecture both of that time and of the present.
In its district there are incredibly picturesque landscapes that amaze with their variety of shapes and outlines. It was in these corridors that Harry and Ron saved their friend from a giant troll in the first part of the saga.
Chamber of Secrets
Lacock Abbey, which is located in Wiltshire, was chosen as the location for the Chamber of Secrets. In addition, the scenes where Harry heard the voice of the Basilisk while serving his sentence were filmed here.
The abbey is famous for the fact that the English inventor in the field of photography lived there. His name was William Tabolt. Having visited the nunnery, you can find out many classrooms in which young wizards took classes.
King's Cross Station
In the story, the train to the school of magicians departs from platform 9 ¾ of King's Cross station. During filming, a vaulted wall was used between the fourth and fifth platforms. For admirers of Rowling's work, an installation was created on the platform in the form of a cart disappearing into the wall. There is also a sign attached that says in English: “Platform 9 ¾”.
Hogsmeade Station
It is from this station that the locomotive takes young magicians to the school of magic. The actual filming location was the Gotland station area, located in Yorkshire. It was there that one of the first railways in England was built.
These are just some of the locations that were used to film the fascinating saga of a young wizard and his friends who fought desperately against a dangerous magician whose name few dared to speak.
So, many places from scenes in films are quite real. The creators of the film saga made up Hogwarts from them. Where is the prototype of the famous school located in Russia? Unfortunately, none of the listed attractions are related to our country.
