It is the station for the village of Goathland in Yorkshire, already well known as the fictional village of Aidensfield from the British TV series, Heartbeat. The train arrives at Hogsmeade Station where Harry and the other students disembark for Hogwarts School.
In the film, the steam train leaves from Platform 9¾ and takes the students to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This central London station was built as the Great Northern Railway’s London terminus in 1851- 2. The scene where Harry catches the steam train Hogwarts Express was also filmed in London, at Platform 4 at Kings Cross Station. It is in the reptile house here where Harry first learns of his ability to talk to snakes. Set on the edge of Regent’s Park, historic London Zoo is home to more than 600 species of rare and beautiful animals. The scene early in the film when the Dursleys go to the zoo and Harry talks to the snake, was filmed at London Zoo. Several locations in London were used for the filming. Our Harry Potter tour starts at the Dursley’s house, Number 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey which is in fact an ordinary house in Martins Heron near Bracknell, Berkshire. There, he meets new friends, learns new skills ( broomstick flying, for example!) and ends up confronting the evil person who killed his parents. He is amazed to find out that his parents were also wizards and that he has inherited magical powers of his own! He is transported from his ordinary life to Hogwarts, a boarding school for wizards. Harry’s own parents died when he was a baby, not as he believed in a car crash but in a fight with a powerful evil wizard who also tried to kill Harry. The books follow the adventures of an 11 year old boy, Harry who lives in a cupboard under the stairs in a house with his aunt, uncle and spoilt cousin Dudley. Rowlings’s Harry Potter books are some of the best selling children’s books in history. Hi Jools - I would love to live somewhere like Lacock - not because of the TV shows but because it is untouched.You’ve read the books, you’ve seen the film – now discover the superb film locations. Judi Brown (author) from UK on October 09, 2012: When I helped deliver steel from the Midlands down to Hayle, Cornwall, I never got tired of watching the scenery and wondering what it would be like to live there. Such villages and the British countryside are almost painfully beautiful to me. Thanks so much for commenting, appreciated as always.ĭavid Hunt from Cedar Rapids, Iowa on October 09, 2012: I'm lucky to have been able to travel a lot, but I never grow tired of the UK. Hi David - I really, really missed our countryside when I lived in the US and was very happy to get back here. Judi Brown (author) from UK on October 10, 2012:
The National Trust have ensured that the village retains its unspoilt appearance, which has drawn the attention not only of many tourists, but of location scouts for TV and film productions. It was his niece, Matilda Talbot, who passed the Abbey and the village to the National Trust in 1944. There is a museum dedicated to him at the Abbey. One of the Talbots, Charles Henry Fox Talbot, was an early pioneer of photography.
When the monasteries were dissolved by Henry VIII, Lacock Abbey and the village were sold, passing eventually to the Talbot family. This prosperity is reflected in the solid stone walls of the houses that still stand in Lacock today. Placed near one of only two crossings over the River Avon and granted a market licence, Lacock became a prosperous town. Lacock grew with the wool trade, a major medieval industry. The Countess of Salisbury founded Lacock Abbey in 1232, the village being part of the Abbey's lands. Lacock was inhabited at the time of the Domesday Book, but it didn't begin to thrive until the early thirteenth century.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge 2003 TV Mini Series.Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) 2000 TV Series.Robin of Sherwood/Robin Hood 1984 TV Series.The cloisters at Lacock Abbey date from the 13th century and recently starred in that 21st century phenomenon, Harry Potter.īy Tony Grist (Photographer's own files), via Wikimedia Commons More TV and Film Credits for Lacock