Where in the World is HOGWARTS?

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Anne <urbana at c...>"
<urbana at c...> wrote:
> Sorry to bring this up 4 weeks later but something popped into my 
> mind...
> 
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve <bboy_mn at y...>" 
> <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> > > Actually, there is direct canon evidence that Hogwarts is only 
> just
> > > north of the Lothian (Edinburgh) region. ... --John
> > 
> > bboy_mn:
> > Yes, they flew over Peebles which is 34 Kilometers south of 
> > Edinburgh.
> > For reference, 30K is about 18.6 miles.
> > 
> > ... the train track ... runs 27 kilometers west of  Peebles. 
> > And in rough that same area 27K west of Peebles and 
> > few Kilometers north, the train track splits and allows you to 
> > go EITHER to Glasgow or Edinburgh. 
> >
> > -end bboy_mn org-
> 
> So ... has anyone estimated how far it is (miles/km) from King's 
> Cross Station to Hogsmeade station, where students leave the 
> Hogwarts Express? Also, how far is it from Number 4, Privet Drive, 
> Little Whinging, Surrey (Dursleys' house) to King's Cross Station? 
> Yahoomaps says it's 402 miles from KCS to downtown Edinburgh (though
> we don't know the location of Hogwarts relative to Edinburgh) and 
> approximately 34 miles from KCS to "Surrey Research Centre" which is 
> somewhere in Surrey.
> 
> Anne U
> (not totally sure why I'm obsessing about this but hope to get it 
> cleared up)

Possible Locations of Hogwarts-
http://www.homestead.com/BlueMoonMarket/Files/Hogwarts/hogwarts1.htm

This won't mean anything unless you look at my maps; Satelite maps of
Scotland and Britian. And, because of the limited nature of my $10
software maps, I can only give you straight line distances.


[For reference - Loch Ness is a line stretching from Ft. William on
the south end up to Inverness in the north.]

London to ->

Area (1a) = 474.8 miles [Located slightly northwest of Loch Ness
(Inverness)]
Area (1b) = 456.6 miles [Located straight west of Lock Ness (Inverness)]
Area (2) = 434.6 miles [Located slightly east of Loch Ness (slightly
southeast of Inverness)]
Area (3) = 412.0 miles [Located in the central mountain region just
east of Kingussie]
Area (4) = 401.5 miles [Located on the southeast edge of the mountain
region, general north and slightly east of Edinburgh, and roughly due
north of Dundee]

If you would like me to expand that out with an estimate by the rail
routes I assume are being used, I could do that but it a little more
difficult, or you could use Yahoo maps driving distance, to measure
from London to Inverness or London to Dundee and you would have it
pretty close.

The distance to the location west of Peebles where the track forks
(it's on the new map I just added) would be the same for all
locations. From there it's just a question of whether you go west past
Glasgow or east past Edinburgh.

Surrey-
London to Dorking in centeral Surrey is about 20 miles.
London to Guildford which is a larger town 10 miles west of Dorking is
a distance of 28 miles. So Uncle Vernon doesn't really have a very
long drive to London. 
London to the farthest point in Surrey (Hindhead in the southwest
corner is about 38 miles. (Again, straight line distance)

>From the assumed location of Ottery St. Catchpole on the Otter River
in Devon to Central Surrey is 135 miles (Straight line distance, or as
the dragon flys). 

Remember Mrs. Weasley hired 3 muggle taxis to take them from the
Burrow to London; that's about a 145 mile taxi ride (one way of
course). Three taxis times 145 miles, I'm glad that I wasn't paying
for those taxis.


Don't forget to check out the locations of the Wizard's Dragon
Research Center in Romania.
http://BlueMoonMarket.homestead.com/Files/Hogwarts/RomDragCenter.html

[Note: satelite images are large, about 100kb each. On the Dragon site
only the first couple pages use background, so the remainng pages
after should load faster. I have DSL so my judgement of page loading
time is a little warped.]

bboy_mn