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Harry Potter location: 'Hogwarts'
corridors: Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester
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HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE
aka Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone filming locations
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CREDITS
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North
to Yorkshire,
where ëHogsmeade Stationí is Goathland
Station on the North
Yorkshire Moors Railway. And this is where it
starts to get complicated.
‘Hogwarts’ itself is a dizzying assembly of
different locations. The richly-vaulted cloisters of
Gloucester
Cathedral, Gloucester,
down in the southwest of England, became the corridors
leading to ‘Gryffindor House’, where the lady
in the oil painting asks for the password.
The cloisters of Durham
Cathedral, in the northeast, became the snowy
quadrangle of ‘Hogwarts’, where Harry sets
the owl flying.
Back south (I told you it was complicated), to Lacock
Abbey, a Gothicised 13th century abbey in
Lacock, three miles
south of Chippenham in Wiltshire,
which supplied many of the classrooms. The Sacristy
became Professor Snapeís Potions Class: “How to
bottle fame, brew glory and even put a stopper in death”.
The Warming Room,
which really does contain a genuine cauldron, is Professor
Quirrellís Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom,
and itís in the Chapter House
that Harry stumbles upon the miraculous Mirror of Erised.
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Harry Potter location: "Hogwarts' classrooms: Lacock Abbey, Lacock, Wiltshire
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The house, home of the Talbot family, including the
Medieval cloisters seen in the movie, is open daily
(except Tuesday) from the beginning of April to the
end of October (admission charge; tel: 01249.730227).
You can see it also the 1958 Civil War melodrama The
Moonraker.
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Harry Potter location: Another
'Hogwarts' location: Alnwick Castle, Northumberland
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The Outer Bailey
of Alnwick
Castle, Northumberland
(seen also in Disneyís The
Spaceman and King Arthur),
is the site of Madame Hoochís flying lessen.
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Professor
Flitwick's class: Harrow Old Schools, Harrow-on-the-Hill
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Professor Flitwickís Charms Class, where Hermione (Emma
Watson) manages to levitate a feather: “Wingardium
Leviosa!”, is the Fourth
Form Rooms of Harrow
Old Schools, Harrow-on-the-Hill in Middlesex.
The Bodleian Library
of Oxford University
(seen also in The Madness
of King George supplied two locations: Duke
Humphreyís Library is where Harry tries to
find out about Nicholas Flamel; and the elaborately
fan-vaulted Divinity School
became Hogwarts School’s hospital.
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FILMING
LOCATIONS FOR HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE
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TRAVEL
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London:
Flights: Heathrow
Airport; Gatwick
Airport
Regentís
Park Zoo, Regent's Park, NW1 (tube:
Camden Town, Northern line)
Leadenhall
Market, Gracechurch Street, EC3 (tube:
Bank, Northern and Central lines)
Middlesex:
Harrow-on-the-Hill (rail,
from London Marylebone; tube: Metropolitan line)
Harrow
School: Visiting:
Seven prime ministers including Sir Winston Churchill,
attended Harrow School.ÝThe school's Fourth
Form Room, seen in the film, is Britain's
bestÝpreserved 17th century school room.
Berkshire:
Martins Heron Station
(from London Waterloo)
Wiltshire:
Lacock
Abbey, three miles from Chippenham
(Great Western Main Line from London Paddington)
Gloucestershire:
Gloucester
Cathedral, Gloucester
(Rail: First Great Western from London
Paddington)
Oxfordshire:
Bodleian
Library, Broad Street, Oxford
Northumberland:
Alnwick
Castle. Alnwick is 33 miles north of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
and 80 miles south of Edinburgh (both served by international
airports). (Rail: East Coast Main Line from London
King's Cross)
Co Durham:
Durham
Cathedral, Durham
(Rail: East Coast Main Line from London King's
Cross)
Yorkshire:
North
Yorkshire Moors Railway: Grosmont Station
is reached by the Esk
Valley Railway, running between Whitby & Middlesborough
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