King’s Cross · 2001–2018
One castle on screen; on the ground, six buildings hundreds of miles apart. Put it back together, room by room.
Hogwarts, care of:
Daniel RadcliffeHarry · 2010
Emma WatsonHermione · 2010
Rupert GrintRon · 2010
Departures
King’s Cross, London
The Hogwarts Express leaves from Platform 9¾ at King’s Cross.
The platform that was filmed is between platforms 4 and 5.
Free to enter. The trolley in the wall is a photo spot, open Monday to Saturday 8am–9pm and Sunday 9am–9pm; taking your own photo is free.
Fort William · Day return from £76 · morning trains to 23 October 2026
Fort William to Mallaig and back, over the Glenfinnan Viaduct. Seats are few: book early.
Book seatsKing’s Cross · Daily · free
Free with your own camera; professional photos with house scarves are on sale, beside the shop.
Plan a visitThe castle
Choose a room. Each lights up when you find the real building it was filmed in.
The drawing is this page’s, not a plan of any building.
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Start anywhere: the corridors, the staircase, the library…
Gloucester · Adults £6 · Saturdays 11am
Thirty minutes in the cloisters that became Hogwarts’ corridors, on selected Saturdays.
See datesOxford · £3 · guided tours from £12.50
The infirmary is a £3 self-guided visit; Duke Humfrey’s, the Hogwarts library, is on the guided tours.
Book a tourAlnwick · With castle entry · season to 20 October 2026
A flying lesson on the lawn of the first film’s, free with castle entry; take a time-slot ticket.
Plan a visit
The City of London
Hagrid brings Harry here to find the way into Diagon Alley; the Leaky Cauldron’s entrance is 42 Bull’s Head Passage, with a bright blue door.
Part of the first film was shot here in 2000–2001: the market played the Leaky Cauldron’s street and inspired Diagon Alley.
The door here is drawn for this page.
The market lanes are public. The filmed doorway is 42 Bull’s Head Passage, with a bright blue door.
From Bank station · Adults £20 · Saturdays 11am
A two-hour walk through Leadenhall Market to the Millennium Bridge.
See the walkPimlico, London
Family rooms in Pimlico dressed as a castle: stained glass, stone walls, trunks, cauldrons and four-posters, down a candlelit passage of portraits. Not a filming location.
Check rooms
Lochaber
Loch Shiel, beside the viaduct, was Hogwarts Lake in several scenes. In Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry flies across it on Buckbeak.
The Clachaig Inn area was a location for Hagrid’s Hut in Prisoner of Azkaban. The hut was a temporary set; VisitScotland sends fans to the Clachaig Inn, a working inn in the glen.
Glenfinnan
A 1755 stone house across the bay from the Glenfinnan Monument, a ten-minute walk from the viaduct.
Check roomsGlenfinnan
The old Prince’s House Hotel, under new owners since 2025, 100 metres past Glenfinnan station. Pictured as it was in 2010.
Check roomsBeyond the castle
Pembrokeshire
Shell Cottage was built on the beach for the film, down to the seaweed.
A wild surf beach: do not swim, there are strong rip currents.
Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire
The park lists the first, second, fourth and fifth films among those shot in its woods.
Use the pay-and-display car park, open 8am–7pm with seasonal changes; parking on Black Park Road is not allowed.
Liverpool
In Fantastic Beasts the hall became the banquet room of a 1920s New York black-tie dinner that goes wrong.
See the colonnade from St George’s Plateau; check opening times with the hall before you go.
Radcliffe, Watson and GrintThe last premiere · July 2011
Alan RickmanSnape · 2011
Eddie RedmayneNewt Scamander · 2016
Leavesden
The tour is billed as the making of Harry Potter, with sets including the Great Hall, the Forbidden Forest and Diagon Alley; tickets must be booked in advance.
The film’s Hogwarts Express engine, 5972 Olton Hall, is on show here.
Book ahead: every ticket is sold in advance. Take the train from Euston to Watford Junction, then the included shuttle bus, about 15 minutes.
Leavesden · Adults £58.50 in 2026 · £61 in 2027
The sets, from the Great Hall to Diagon Alley, and the film’s Hogwarts Express engine. Book ahead; the shuttle from Watford Junction is included.
Book tickets17 places you can visit, from King’s Cross to the Highlands.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Free to enter. The trolley in the wall is a photo spot, open Monday to Saturday 8am–9pm and Sunday 9am–9pm; taking your own photo is free.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. The market lanes are public. The filmed doorway is 42 Bull’s Head Passage, with a bright blue door.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A free footbridge between St Paul’s and Bankside, open at all hours.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Book ahead: every ticket is sold in advance. Take the train from Euston to Watford Junction, then the included shuttle bus, about 15 minutes.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Use the pay-and-display car park, open 8am–7pm with seasonal changes; parking on Black Park Road is not allowed.
King’s Cross, London
The Hogwarts Express leaves from Platform 9¾ at King’s Cross.
Free to enter. The trolley in the wall is a photo spot, open Monday to Saturday 8am–9pm and Sunday 9am–9pm; taking your own photo is free.
City of London
Part of the first film was shot here in 2000–2001: the market played the Leaky Cauldron’s street and inspired Diagon Alley.
The market lanes are public. The filmed doorway is 42 Bull’s Head Passage, with a bright blue door.
Bankside to St Paul’s
Half-Blood Prince opens with the bridge collapsing.
A free footbridge between St Paul’s and Bankside, open at all hours.
Leavesden, near Watford
The tour is billed as the making of Harry Potter, with sets including the Great Hall, the Forbidden Forest and Diagon Alley; tickets must be booked in advance.
Book ahead: every ticket is sold in advance. Take the train from Euston to Watford Junction, then the included shuttle bus, about 15 minutes.
Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire
The park lists the first, second, fourth and fifth films among those shot in its woods.
Use the pay-and-display car park, open 8am–7pm with seasonal changes; parking on Black Park Road is not allowed.
Stay
Wizard rooms in London and two houses in Glenfinnan, a walk from the viaduct.
Pimlico, London
Family rooms in Pimlico dressed as a castle: stained glass, stone walls, trunks, cauldrons and four-posters, down a candlelit passage of portraits. Not a filming location.
Check roomsGlenfinnan
A 1755 stone house across the bay from the Glenfinnan Monument, a ten-minute walk from the viaduct.
Check roomsGlenfinnan
The old Prince’s House Hotel, under new owners since 2025, 100 metres past Glenfinnan station. Pictured as it was in 2010.
Check roomsGo there
The studio, the Jacobite, a flying lesson at Alnwick, the cloisters, the library and a City walk.
Leavesden · Adults £58.50 in 2026 · £61 in 2027
The sets, from the Great Hall to Diagon Alley, and the film’s Hogwarts Express engine. Book ahead; the shuttle from Watford Junction is included.
Book ticketsFort William · Day return from £76 · morning trains to 23 October 2026
Fort William to Mallaig and back, over the Glenfinnan Viaduct. Seats are few: book early.
Book seatsAlnwick · With castle entry · season to 20 October 2026
A flying lesson on the lawn of the first film’s, free with castle entry; take a time-slot ticket.
Plan a visitGloucester · Adults £6 · Saturdays 11am
Thirty minutes in the cloisters that became Hogwarts’ corridors, on selected Saturdays.
See datesOxford · £3 · guided tours from £12.50
The infirmary is a £3 self-guided visit; Duke Humfrey’s, the Hogwarts library, is on the guided tours.
Book a tourFrom Bank station · Adults £20 · Saturdays 11am
A two-hour walk through Leadenhall Market to the Millennium Bridge.
See the walkKing’s Cross · Daily · free
Free with your own camera; professional photos with house scarves are on sale, beside the shop.
Plan a visitUK
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Snow in the Great Hall at Leavesden, and the play in the West End.
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Take it home
Original posters for the first two films from our store, the making-of books and John Williams’s score.
An original 2001 UK poster, 23.5 × 16.5 in.
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View posterAn original 2002 US one-sheet, mint.
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View posterJ.K. Rowling
Where it starts.
Find the bookBob McCabe
The making of all eight films, set by set.
Find the bookBrian Sibley
Behind the scenes, with pull-outs.
Find the bookJohn Williams · CD, Atlantic, 2001
Williams’s score for the first film.
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Find a copyDates, prices, rooms and stock change: confirm with the provider before you travel or buy. A stay or tour is described as a filming location only where the card says so.
Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
17 of 17 places · 19 of 19 Moments
King’s Cross, London
The Hogwarts Express leaves from Platform 9¾.
City of London
Hagrid takes Harry through the market to the Leaky Cauldron.
Bankside to St Paul’s
Half-Blood Prince opens with the bridge collapsing.
Leavesden, near Watford
The sets were built at Leavesden, where they are on show.
Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire
Four of the films were shot in Black Park’s woods.
St Aldate’s, Oxford
The first-years climb the stone staircase to the Great Hall.
Broad Street, Oxford
Duke Humfrey’s Library was the Hogwarts library.
The Divinity School was the Hogwarts infirmary.
Gloucester
The cloisters were the corridors of Hogwarts.
Lacock, Wiltshire
Snape teaches Potions in the Sacristy; the Mirror of Erised stands in the Chapter House.
Alnwick, Northumberland
Madame Hooch’s first flying lesson is in the Outer Bailey.
Durham
Harry lets Hedwig fly from the snowy Cloister Garth.
The Chapter House was McGonagall’s classroom.
North York Moors
Goathland became Hogsmeade Station.
Liverpool
A 1920s New York black-tie dinner goes wrong.
Glenfinnan, Lochaber
The film train crosses the Glenfinnan Viaduct.
Glenfinnan
Loch Shiel was Hogwarts Lake; Harry flies over it on Buckbeak.
Glen Coe, Lochaber
Hagrid’s Hut stood in Glen Coe for Prisoner of Azkaban.
Pembrokeshire
Shell Cottage was built on the beach.
The collection continues in each film. Individual film pages become available here when published.
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