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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Virginia Water, by train from Waterloo

Hogwarts' lake: where Harry flies Buckbeak over the water in Prisoner of Azkaban, and the jetty of the second Triwizard task stood.

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The lakeside at the bottom of Windsor Great Park played the Black Lake and its shore in three films - Buckbeak's flight in Prisoner of Azkaban skims this water, Harry and Hermione's conversations in Goblet of Fire are on its bank, and the Triwizard jetty was built out from it - and nothing was left behind but the view. The lake is two miles long with a five-mile path round it, a thirty-foot cascade, a totem pole and a ruin made of real Roman columns from Leptis Magna; Virginia Water station is on the Waterloo line, and the park is free.

Where
Trains from London Waterloo to Virginia Water; Windsor Great Park, GU25 4QF

Trains from Waterloo to Virginia Water; the park is open every day and free, the car parks charge

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