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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" <kcawte at n...> 
wrote:

> 
> There are a very limited number of directions you can travel 200 
miles in
> from Little Whinging. 

Assuming that Rowling's Britain is a copy of the real world version, 
Little Whinging has to be located in the small section of Surrey 
north of the Thames. That's the only part of Surrey which was 
reached via Paddington Station in early 1990, and in book one Harry 
and Hagrid returned to Privet Drive after the day in Diagon Alley by 
way of Paddington.

Detailed maps of Little Whinging and the house interior and overall 
map of the property are now in the Lexicon, thanks to Dominik, who 
spent hours tramping through those neighborhoods, making notes, and 
even dragging a trunk down the street to find out if the distances 
on the neighborhood map made sense!

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon