Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 2004
Director
Cast
- Daniel Radcliffe
- Rupert Grint
- Emma Watson
- Gary Oldman
- David Thewlis
- Alan Rickman
- Michael Gambon
- Tom Felton
- Robbie Coltrane
- Richard Griffiths
- Emma Thompson
visit the film locations
London: Flights: Heathrow Airport; Gatwick Airport
Regent's Park Zoo, Regent's Park, NW1 (tube: Camden Town, Northern line)
Leadenhall Market, Gracechurch Street, EC3 (tube: Bank, Northern and Central lines)
Greater London: Harrow-on-the-Hill (rail, from London Marylebone; tube: Metropolitan line)
Harrow School: Visiting: Seven prime ministers including Sir Winston Churchill, attended Harrow School. The school's Fourth Form Room, seen in the film, is Britain's best preserved 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
Trivia
Leadenhall Market can be seen in Brannigan, with John Wayne; Lara Croft – Tomb Raider, with Angelina Jolie; and Proof of Life with Russell Crowe
Lacock Abbey was a featured location in 1958’s swashbuckler The Moonraker
Alnwick Castle is a veteran location, seen in Disney’s The Spaceman and King Arthur; Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, with Kevin Costner; Mary Queen of Scots; Becket, with Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton; and Elizabeth, with Cate Blanchett
Gloucester Docks were featured in Maurice; and nearby Cheltenham College in Lindsay Anderson's If....
North Yorkshire Moors Railway hosted filming for All Creatures Great and Small and Neil LaBute’s Possession, with Aaron Eckhart and Gwyneth Paltrow
Harry Potter location: the Leaky Cauldron, Mark II: Stoney Street, Borough, London
Harry Potter starts to grow up as director Alfonso Cuarón takes over the reins and brings a more sombre tone.
The scenery seems a tad more spectacular, too. Where did those mountains come from? Hagrid’s hut, which started out on the safe, flat fringes of Black Park, alongside Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, is now perched on a steep hillside. But I guess that's magic, huh? The Hogwarts locations, this time around, were filmed in Scotland (the Glenfinnan Viaduct has already been seen in the earlier movies), around Glencoe, where ‘Hogwarts Lake’ is Loch Shiel.
But the lake where Harry sees the Hippogriff, and later confronts the Dementors, is Virginia Water in Surrey.
Harry Potter location: Harry catches the Knight Bus: Dowding Way, Leavesden, Hertfordshire
There are some locations in and around London. After fleeing ‘Privet Drive’, Harry is picked up by the triple-decker Knight Bus on Dowding Way, off Aerodrome Way, a brand-spanking new housing estate opposite the Leavesden Studio in Hertfordshire.
The bus careers wildly south along Green Lanes, in Palmers Green, north London, from Bourne Hill, before swinging sharp left into Park Avenue, on its way to deliver Harry to the Leaky Cauldron.
It’s on Lambeth Bridge that the bus squeezes between two oncoming double-deckers. But wait a minute, isn't it travelling in the wrong direction – crossing the Thames from south London to the north?
Yet its destination is south of the river, as Leaky Cauldron itself seems to have undergone a bit of a change.
In Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, it could be found in Leadenhall Market, at the foot of the Lloyds Building in the City. The new Cauldron stands beneath the railway bridge on Stoney Street opposite Borough Market. 7 Stoney Street became the Cauldron, while number 8, alongside, was transformed into the Third Hand Book Emporium.
On Stoney Street, Harvey Keitel watches a car go up in flames in Danny Cannon’s The Young Americans. This is a popular area for filming – here you can find locations for Bridget Jones’s Diary, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Howards End and Entrapment, among others. Check it out fast. The streets here are under threat of redevelopment.
