Shooting Locations

[Richelle Votaw]

> Does anyone know where I might find information on where the HP movies
> have been shot? I am planning to vacation in the UK next year, and

Here are a few sites with some information:

http://tinyurl.com/cofno
http://www.londoncountrytours.co.uk/harrypotter.htm
http://www.classbrain.com/artmovies/publish/article_74.shtml
http://www.chiff.com/a/harry-potter-travel-tour.htm
http://www.backroadstouring.co.uk/HarryPottertour.htm
http://www.britishtours.com/harry_potterovernight.html

I visited several locations last year on two separate trips to the UK.  I 
highly recommend Alnwick Castle, though it will most likely be raining. 
I've been mistaken for a dementor in photos taken in front of the castle due 
to my hooded raincoat. :)  The castle is beautiful and very recognizable, 
particularly from scenes in the first movie where Quidditch lessons were 
filmed.   I also went to Durham Cathedral.  I think one of the classrooms 
was filmed there, but that's not open to the public.  The cloisters, 
however, are, and that's very recognizable from the first two films. 
Filming may have been done in one of the corridors there as well, it looked 
remarkably familiar, though that could've just been a copied set.  When I 
went to Christ Church in Oxford not much was open to the public, though I 
did see the Divinity School which is used as the hospital wing.  No visit is 
complete without a stop at King's Cross Station, where you must take a 
picture under the "Platform 9 3/4" sign.  And don't forget to check out the 
clock tower of St Pancras station next door.  That's the one Harry and Ron 
fly past on their way to Hogwarts in the flying car.

Richelle