Visit 19 shooting locations of the Harry Potter saga

Are you going to visit England in an unusual way? And you're going to discover the shooting places of the Harry Potter saga?

The saga Harry Potter is a series of eight world-famous films. Their notoriety is such that the filming places are a must-see tourist attraction of United Kingdom .

Produced between 2001 and 2011, films Harry Potter seduce lovers of the fantastic genre, at all ages. Are you visiting England and a fan of Harry Potter? It's okay! Great Britain is home to many shooting locations of the Harry Potter saga. It is an opportunity to review your favourite scenes from your own eyes throughout England. In addition, you will walk on the footsteps of the famous Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.

In total, there are at least 10 locations in London and 10 others in England . Here is without waiting our list of the best shooting locations of the Harry Potter saga!

King’s Cross St. Pancras Station

King’s Cross Station is visible in all the films and is emblematic of Harry Potter. This is where the students board the Poudlard Express on Pier 9 3⁄4. This is the vaulted wall between docks 4 and 5. To the docks 9, 10 and 11, you'll see a half-packed luggage cart in the wall. On the one hand, the station operates a transition between the world of Moldus and the world of sorcerers. It is also the place that marks a new year in Poudlard. Finally, it is also the place that allows Harry Potter to flee the unpleasant environment of the Dursley family.

Australia House

The Australian House is chosen for the inner eye of the bank of the witches, Gringotts. The building cannot be visited, but any fan of Harry Potter will admire the façade. The Australian House is present in the film Harry Potter at the Sorcier School .

Regent’s Park

In one of the first scenes of Harry Potter at the Sorcier School , we see Dudley Dursley diving in the middle of reptiles. The scene is at the London Zoo, in the room dedicated to reptiles and amphibians. This is the Reptile House in Regent’s Park.

Millenium Bridge

Dans Harry Potter and the Prince of Sang-Mêlé Do you remember the scene where the Mangemorts attack the Moldus on a bridge? That same bridge, which collapses in the Thames? This is the Millenium Bridge, not far from St. Paul’s Cathedral.

London City Hall

Hotel de Ville de London is filmed in one of the first scenes of the film Harry Potter and the Prince of Sang-Mêlé . This is the Greater London Authority headquarters.

Great Scotland Yard

Scotland Yard, Westminster, is the London Police Headquarters. This place was filmed in several saga films. It represents the location of the ministry of magic. Dans Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix For example, we can see Arthur Weasley and Harry going to the ministry. Dans Harry Potter and Death Relics , we see the buildings of the street in the scenery of the film. The red telephone booth visible in the films does not exist in reality.

Claremont Square

The Claremont Park is in two saga films: Order of the Phoenix and Death Relics . In the first, the rows of houses in the park represent the exterior of Grimmaurd Square and the house of Sirius Black. It should be noted that Square Grimmaurd is a creation of Leavesden studios.

Piccadilly Circus

This iconic square in central London is filmed in the Death Relics . We see Harry, Ron and Hermione flee the marriage of Bill and Fleur Weasley during the Terrier attack. The three characters "transplane" in the middle of Shaftesbury Avenue. After having escaped an accident with a bus on line 19, the trio transplanes in front of the Gap store in Piccadilly Circus.

Leadenhall Market

Among the many shooting locations of the Harry Potter saga, we note the Leadenhall market. It appears in Harry Potter at the Sorcier School , when Hagrid and Harry go looking for school supplies for Poudlard. This market covered in the middle of the City dates from the 14th century. It is between Gracechurch Street and Lime Street. The place shows the entrance of the Chaudron Baveur, the pub serving as a transition between the soft world and the witchcraft.

St Paul Cathedral

The Cathedral of London is chosen as a shooting place in Harry Potter and Azkaban Prisoner . This includes filming the spiral staircases that lead to Professor Trelawney's divination. The staircase is called Dean’s Stair And we're superintendent Geometric Staircaise.

The house of Hermione

Are you looking for other shooting locations of the Harry Potter saga? Go for a ride on the Granger family house. Hermione’s house is located in the northern suburb of London, near Hamstead Heath. She's on tour. Harry Potter and Death Relics . We see Hermione leaving her parents after having them undergo the amnesia spell. For what purpose? Clear her memories to protect them.

Christ Church College

This is one of the shooting places of the saga Harry Potter the most emblematic. Christ Church College, Oxford, is the place where Harry, Hermione and Ron enter for the first time in Poudlard. They climb the stairs to the Grande Salle de Poudlard, before the distribution ceremony. This is actually the staircase leading to the Great Hall of Christ Church.

Durham Cathedral

This building and its cloister are the shooting locations of the Harry Potter saga, including The school of witchcraft . The cloister appears snowy, when Harry steals his Hedwige cabbage. This is also where Professor McGonagall’s class scenes are shot, where Draco Malfoy denounces the trio. In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, we see Ron trying to throw a spell and spit slugs.

Alnwick Castle

In the north of England (Northumberland), the castle of Alnwick is chosen for the shooting of Harry Potter at the Sorcier School . The enclosure represents the spawning course provided by Madame Bibine. There is also the Ford Anglia of Arthur Weasley in prey to the branches of the Saule Cogneur de Poudlard.

University of Oxford

Located at the University of Oxford, the library serves as a film in three films Harry Potter . The medieval bookshop Duke Humfrey is filmed for the library of Poudlard. The Divinity School, with its vaults, images the hospital of Poudlard. We treat students after touching brooms or a cursed opal necklace.

Lacock Abbey

The Abbey of Lacock is located east of Bath, 160 kilometres from London. She used to shoot two films: Harry Potter at the Sorcier School and Secrets Chamber . In particular, it represents the scenes of potion courses provided by Professor Rogue. It should also be noted that Lacock houses the Potter family home. There is also Horace Slughorn’s house when it hides to escape Budly Babberton.

Goathland station

Goathland Station, in North Yorkshire, is one of the shooting locations of the Harry Potter Saga. Specially to film the arrival of the Poudlard Express. The station is renowned for its railway track and now to be one of the shooting locations of the Harry Potter saga. There is the visible red bridge when Hagrid welcomes apprentices to the witch.

Hardwick Hall

Hardwick Hall is a mansion located in Doe Lea. It inspires the plans of the facade of the Malfoy manor. We find him for the shooting of Harry Potter and Death Relics , when the three sorcerer heroes are captured by the Refers. The inside of the manor was however turned in the studios.

Gloucester Cathedral

Finally, the teams chose the corridors of the Cathedral of Gloucester to shoot the film Harry Potter and the Secrets Chamber . In particular, we see the inscriptions in blood letters of the Secrets Chamber: "The Secrets Chamber has been opened. Enemies of the heir, beware! "