Visiting Sites Featured In Harry Potter Books and Movies
Way Of The Ray
If You Go
By Lindsay Wise
Scripps Howard News Service
December 8, 2002
If you are interested in visiting sites featured in the Harry Potter
movies and books, here are a few places to start. All locations should
satisfy film and history buffs alike, young and old, wizard and Muggle.
Alnwick Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland
Used to portray some of the Hogwarts exteriors, including during
Quidditch matches, this second-largest inhabited castle in England dates
from the early 1300s and was featured in the movies Elizabeth and Robin
Hood: Prince of Thieves.
http://www.alnwickcastle .com.
Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester
More than 900 years old, this cathedral's 14th Century cloisters were
used for several big scenes in the second Harry Potter movie, including
the corridors where a mysterious attacker scrawls bloody messages on the
walls and Moaning Myrtle's ghost floods the hallways with water from the
girls' lavatory.
http://www.gloucester cathedral.uk.com.
Bodleian Library, Oxford
As the main research library for students at Oxford University, the
Bodleian Library's 15th Century and 17th Century buildings were used to
film scenes in both Harry Potter movies. The interior of the Duke
Humphrey's Library was filmed as the restricted section of Hogwarts
library and the Divinity School served as the infirmary. Open 9
a.m.-4:30 p.m. most weekdays and 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. most Saturdays by
guided tour only. Children 13-younger not allowed in the Duke Humphrey's
Library.
Christ Church, Oxford
Christ Church's Great Hall was the model for the Hogwarts Great Hall.
The college's grand stairway and cloisters were filmed for scenes in
both movies, including key moments in the new film where Harry and his
friend Ron get caught red-handed after crashing a flying car and where
Harry goes back in time 50 years and first sees Tom Riddle. Christ
Church also is the place that inspired Lewis Carroll to write Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass in the 19th
Century. Individuals and families can visit any day of the year except
Christmas for an entrance fee of 4 pounds (about $6.50) for adults; 3
pounds (about $5) children, students, senior citizens. Behind-the-scenes
group tours are available if you call ahead - you might even be able to
arrange having tea in the Great Hall and a visit to the original "rabbit
hole" of Wonderland fame.
Goathland Station, Goathland, North Yorkshire
Harry Potter fans will recognize this village railway station as the
site of Hogsmeade Station, where new wizard students arrive in the
Hogwarts Express steam train.
You can even take a steam train trip yourself.
http://www.northyorkshire moorsrailway.com.
For a full description of sites, including suggestions for other magical
and mythical locations around Britain, visit
http://www.travelbritain.org/moviemap.
Ze alluring ailurophile
>From: Way Of The Ray way...@ix.netcom.com
>Date: 12/18/2002 8:43 AM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <3E007B7A...@ix.netcom
>If you are interested in visiting sites featured in the Harry Potter
>movies and books, here are a few places to start. All locations should
>satisfy film and history buffs alike, young and old, wizard and Muggle.
<snip>
Ooh, thanks for posting that! I am a Potterphiliac to the utmost degree! Cool
beaners. <g>
>^..^< kat
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