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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Scotland Place and Horse Guards Avenue

The Ministry of Magic's visitors' entrance: the telephone box stood on this alley behind Whitehall.

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In the film of Order of the Phoenix the red phone box that takes callers down to the Ministry stood in Scotland Place, a service alley between Great Scotland Yard and Whitehall Place with the backs of Whitehall's buildings on either side; the box was a prop and is not there. The alley is the one Harry and Mr Weasley walk down, and Great Scotland Yard at the end of it was the first headquarters of the Metropolitan Police. The Ministry has a second door round the corner: in Deathly Hallows Part 1 Harry, Ron and Hermione go in through a row of public lavatories built for the film on Horse Guards Avenue, off Whitehall by the Ministry of Defence, and flush themselves down. The two are a five-minute Ministry of Magic walk, with the real Ministry of Defence in between.

Where
Scotland Place, SW1A
Nearest station
Charing Cross · 3 min walk

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