Harry Potter’s London


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King’s Cross Station All books


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Australia House Philosopher’s Stone


Claremont Square Order of the Phoenix


LOCATIONS IN THE BOOKS 8


Millennium Bridge Half-Blood Prince


14 7 Stoney St Prisoner of Azkaban 7 6


Lambeth Bridge Prisoner of Azkaban


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‘Vauxhall Road’ Chamber of Secrets


St Paul’s Cathedral Prisoner of Azkaban


1 King’s Cross station The location of Platform 9¾, of course. 2Tottenham Court Road After the Death Eaters invade Bill Weasley’s wedding, Harry, Ron and Hermione escape here. 3 Charing Cross Road If you know where to seek it out, you’ll find wizardy pub The Leaky Cauldron tucked away here. 4 ‘Vauxhall Road’ There isn’t a real Vauxhall Road, but in fictional form this is where bad-dude- in-the-making Tom Riddle buys the diary that possesses Ginny Weasley.


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Leadenhall Market Philosopher’s Stone


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1 King’s Cross station Where the young wizards catch the Hogwarts Express from platform 9¾. 2 London Zoo Reptile House On film, it replaces the Surrey zoo where the ten-year-old Harry accidentally sets a giant python loose. 3 Leadenhall Market This ornate covered market doubles up as Diagon Alley and the entrance to The Leaky Cauldron. 4 Australia House Oz’s diplomatic residence is a stand- in for goblin-run bank Gringotts. 5 St Pancras International Used to film the exteriors of King’s Cross. It’s also where the flying Ford Anglia in ‘The Chambers of Secrets’ is parked.


The Thames/ Tower Bridge Order of the Phoenix


LOCATIONS FROM THE FILMS


6 Lambeth Bridge The Knight Bus squeezes between two London buses on the bridge. 7 7 Stoney St (Borough Market) Additional scenes for The Leaky Cauldron were shot on this street. 8 St Paul’s Cathedral Its geometric staircase appears as the staircase to Professor Trelawney’s Divination class. 9 Westminster tube station Where Harry and Arthur go for Harry’s Ministry hearing. 10/11 The Thames and Tower Bridge Anti-Voldemort brigade the Order of the Phoenix swoop across the Thames on broomsticks and over the city’s most famous bridge.


12 Claremont Square This Islington square stands in for Grimmauld Place. Sirius Black’s family once lived at number 12. 13 Scotland Place The telephone box that is the entrance to the Ministry of Magic is on this street in the film. 14Millennium Bridge London’s wobbliest structure is made a whole lot wobblier in an attack by a gang of Death Eaters. 15 Piccadilly Circus In ‘The Deathly Hallows’, Harry, Ron and Hermione flee to Tottenham Court Road after the Death Eaters invade the wedding, but in the film version they head here.■


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