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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Harrow School

The Fourth Form Room of 1615, where Byron carved his name, is Professor Flitwick's classroom: 'Wingardium Leviosa' was taught here.

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Photo by Bernard Burns, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Hogwarts' interiors are mostly Oxford, Durham and the studio, but the Charms lesson in Philosopher's Stone - the feather, the swish and flick, Seamus's small explosion - was filmed in the oldest room of Harrow School, the panelled Fourth Form Room in the Old Schools building of 1615, whose walls are carved edge to edge with the names of boys who sat in it, Byron, Sheridan and Peel among them. It is a working school, so the room is seen on the guided tours the school runs a few times a year, which also take in the Speech Room, the Chapel and the War Memorial Building; The Crown filmed here too, and the village on the hill is worth the climb.

Where
Church Hill, Harrow on the Hill, HA1 3HP
Nearest station
Harrow-on-the-Hill · 9 min walk

Public tours three or four times a year, 14:00 to 15:30; weekday tours by arrangement

Book by email with Harrow School Enterprises; the Fourth Form Room, Speech Room and Chapel are on the route.

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