Upper Nyack Village Hall
Sewn into the run.
Jim Henson · 1986 · shot April to September 1985
Labyrinth
Sarah’s run home looks like one street. It was three towns on the Hudson. The park she rehearses in is in Buckinghamshire, and her goblin kingdom was built on a Hertfordshire sound stage. Pull the thread and the places come apart.
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The run home
Unpick the run
In the film Sarah hurries home in the rain. Wikipedia says the shots were taken in Upper Nyack, Piermont and Haverstraw. Drag the slider to open the stitches, or open one seam at a time.
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0 of 3 seams opened · Sewn shut: one run home.
Piermont Avenue
Sewn into the run.
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Hudson Avenue, Haverstraw
Sewn into the run.
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Sources disagree on which town holds the alleyway: Sources disagree over which town has the alleyway she vanishes into: Movie-Locations.com says Haverstraw, while a search snippet of the IMDb locations page lists an alley off Piermont Avenue.
Behind the run
A kingdom on a sound stage
The labyrinth had no street to run down. It was built indoors, in a studio that was being sold while the film was made.
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Elstree Studios
Wikipedia says the Goblin City was built on Stage 6.
Wikipedia says principal photography began on 15 April 1985 at Elstree Studios.
Wikipedia says shooting wrapped on 8 September 1985, about five months after it began.
The studios were renamed Thorn-EMI Elstree in 1979. In 1985 they were put up for sale and Brent Walker bought them; 19 acres went to Tesco.
A working studio complex behind gates on Shenley Road. Nothing read offers walk-in visits; the gate and road can be seen from the pavement.
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Close
Go and find the stitches
Elstree is seen from the road, and West Wycombe Park opens in summer. Upper Nyack Village Hall, Piermont Avenue and Hudson Avenue are public places; the houses along them are not. Sarah’s street is a private home and is not pinned, and the Hampstead workshop has no address.
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Where it is now
5 places you can visit in England and on the Hudson, plus a private street and an unpinned workshop.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
Site reference · Restricted access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working studio complex behind gates on Shenley Road. Nothing read offers walk-in visits; the gate and road can be seen from the pavement.
Building reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A National Trust house and park, open in the summer months only. Check the Trust’s page for this season before you go.
Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, in October 2015. Train Photos · CC BY-SA 2.0 Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire
Elstree Studios
Wikipedia says principal photography began on 15 April 1985 at Elstree Studios.
A working studio complex behind gates on Shenley Road. Nothing read offers walk-in visits; the gate and road can be seen from the pavement.
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West Wycombe Park, Buckinghamshire, June 2023. Scott Wylie · CC BY-SA 4.0 West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
West Wycombe Park
Wikipedia says the park at the start of the film is part of the West Wycombe estate.
A National Trust house and park, open in the summer months only. Check the Trust’s page for this season before you go.
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Stay
A room by the park.
A coaching inn in the village where the opening scenes were shot.
The George & Dragon
The George & Dragon
West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
A coaching inn on West Wycombe’s High Street, dating from 1720 on the site of a fourteenth-century inn, with ten bedrooms. Pictured: West Wycombe Park, 2023.
Check roomsGo there
Follow the thread.
The National Trust house and park, plus walks and film tours in London.
National Trust
West Wycombe Park (National Trust)
West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
The house and park of the film’s opening scenes. Opening is seasonal, so check the Trust’s page for dates and times.
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Hampstead walking tours
Hampstead, London
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Take it home
An original from 1986.
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Labyrinth (1986)
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The archive
Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
7 of 7 places · 10 of 10 stories
Elstree Studios
Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire
Cameras roll
Principal photography begins at Elstree Studios on 15 April 1985.
Goblin City
The Goblin City is built on Stage 6.
That’s a wrap
Shooting wraps on 8 September 1985, about five months after it began.
For sale
The studios are put up for sale in 1985 and bought by Brent Walker.
West Wycombe Park
West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Lines in the park
The opening park, where Sarah rehearses her lines, is part of West Wycombe Park.
Upper Nyack Village Hall
North Broadway at Castle Heights Avenue, Upper Nyack, New York
Past the Village Hall
Sarah hurries past the Upper Nyack Village Hall on her way home in the rain.
Sarah’s street, North Broadway
North Broadway, Upper Nyack, New York
Her street
Sarah’s home is on the river side of North Broadway, between First Avenue and Hook Mountain.
Piermont Avenue
Piermont Avenue, Piermont, New York
Along Piermont Avenue
The run continues along Piermont Avenue, about four miles south of Upper Nyack.
Hudson Avenue, Haverstraw
Hudson Avenue, Haverstraw, New York
Into the alley
Sarah disappears into a small alleyway between houses on Hudson Avenue, in Haverstraw.
The first Creature Shop, Hampstead
Hampstead, London
The workshop
Jim Henson’s Creature Shop is founded in Hampstead in 1979 and does creature effects for Labyrinth.
