Harry Potter

The platform, the alley, the bank and the bridge: where the books are set and the films were shot, the studio where the sets still stand, and the day trips to Hogwarts' lake and the Quidditch woods.

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Ashridge, by train from Euston

The beech woods where the Weasleys arrive by Portkey for the Quidditch World Cup in Goblet of Fire, on the National Trust's Ashridge Estate.

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The dawn walk up through the woods to the Portkey, the meeting with Amos and Cedric Diggory, and Cedric dropping out of a tree to join them were filmed in the Frithsden Beeches, the oldest part of the Ashridge Estate's five thousand acres of Chiltern woodland; the tree Cedric jumped from split and fell years ago, but its remains are still there among the pollarded beeches, which is more than most filming woods can say. The estate is free to walk, with the Bridgewater Monument to climb and bluebells in May; the way in by train is Tring, on the Euston line.

Where
Trains from London Euston to Tring; Ashridge Estate, Berkhamsted, HP4 1LX

Trains from Euston to Tring; the visitor centre is open by day.

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