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Harry Potter location: Home
of the dreadful Dursleys, '4 Privet Drive': 12 Picket Post
Close, Martins Heron
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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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The
first of the Harry Potter
saga uses locations the length and breadth of the UK,
pieced together from sites across the length and breadth
of the UK. For instance, although the elaborate exterior
of ‘Hogwarts School’ is largely computer generated,
scenes inside the school were filmed in at least six
different locations, ranging from County
Durham in the north of England to Wiltshire
in the west.
We start out in Berkshire,
where the house of the dreadful Dursleys, at ë4 Privet
Driveí, is 12 Picket Post Close,
Martins Heron, (rail: Martins Heron),
one rail stop away from Bracknell.
In London,
itís at the Reptile House
of Regentís
Park Zoo, that Harry (Daniel
Radcliffe) learns he can speak to snakes and liberates
the boa constrictor (though what kind of life can it
expect in Regents Park?).
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Harry Potter location: Harry
talks to the serpent: Reptile House, Regent’s Park
Zoo
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The entrance to ‘The Leaky Cauldron’ was an
empty shop, now an optician store – The
Glass House, 42 Bullís Head Passage in Leadenhall
Market in the City of London (it’s just
beneath the famous Lloyd's
Building).
The market itself has been a frequent film location.
Within the market, The Lamb
pub was the site of the raucous pub brawl in John
Wayne's only English movie, Brannigan.
More recently, Angelina
Jolie zoomed through the arcade on her motorbike
in Lara Croft –
Tomb Raider, while Russell
Crowe enjoyed a Chinese meal here in Proof
of Life.
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Harry Potter location: The
Leauldrky Caon: Bull's Head Passage, Leadenhall Market |
The crazily angled exterior of ‘Gringott’s
Bank’ is obviously a set, but the interior is the
imposing Exhibition Hall
of Australia House,
with its chandeliers and Australian marble columns.
It’s not generally open to the public but there
are daily tours. Find it at the eastern end of the traffic
island where Aldwych
meets the Strand.
The Hogwarts Express supposedly departs from ëPlatform
9 3/4ë of Kingís Cross Station,
which is actually the arched wall between Platforms
4 and 5. Don't go running into that wall,
now. Trust me, it doesn't work.
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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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