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One of our most requested tours!
 The popular Harry Potter stories about wizardry and witchcraft are the latest ingenious offerings from a land renowned for its legends, superstitions and tales of ghosts and giants. The new-found interest in all  things magical is thanks to the first Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Sorcerer's Stone in the USA), released by Warner Bros. on 16th November, 2001 and shot entirely on location in Britain.
Visiting these locations is fun for Harry Potter fans and their friends and family and have become a very popular tour option. Many of the locations used in the film can be visited while on one of our other tours (Click for locations), or all can be combined in our Overnight Harry Potter Special Tour.
Overnight Harry Potter Special
This tour includes visits to the tranquil National Trust village of Lacock, Oxford University's Christ Church College, Gloucester Cathedral, Stonehenge, Warwick Castle, Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath. If you would like to book this tour, please scroll down to the Request Form at the bottom of the page.
Day 1: Visit the filming locations listed below:
- 2 hour panoramic tour of London - visiting main sights including King's Cross, Australia House, London Zoo ...
- Stonehenge, Britain's most famous prehistoric monument
- The National Trust village of Lacock
- The Roman city of Bath
- Stay overnight in Gloucester or Cotswolds
Day 2: Visit these filming locations:
- Gloucester Cathedral
- Warwick Castle
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- Oxford
- Return to London
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Daily Rate
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Passengers
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Price
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| Medium
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1 - 2 |
£395 |
| Large
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3 - 4
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£470
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| Extra Large |
5 - 6 * |
£580 |
| Minibus
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7 - 10
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| Coach |
11 - 52
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Plus £70 per night for guide's overnight expenses. For groups of 6 or more add £165 per night for driver and guide's overnight expenses.
* Please note that Extra Large
vehicles (7 seaters e.g. Space
Cruiser, Toyota Previa) are not
appropriate for long touring and
parties of 6 may need to travel
in the Minibus category. With
light luggage they can be used
for 6 people on overnight, 2-day
tours.
We will recommend and reserve accommodation according to your preferences and budget.
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Harry Potter Locations
 Hogwarts School
Much of the action takes place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In reality this was mostly Gloucester Cathedral, or rather the cloisters of the cathedral: the cameras rolled only in this part of the 11th century building, its corridors representing the labyrinthine walkways of Hogwarts. Gloucester's Dean, the Very Reverend Nicholas Bury, said: "The cathedral is a particularly atmospheric place, and the cloisters must be among the most beautiful architectural gems in Europe."
Oxford University
The school scenes were filmed at much of Oxford University including Christ Church College - one of Oxford's most magnificent colleges where the University's age-old traditions still prevail. Its Bodleian Library - in real-life, the main research centre for students and scholars - doubles as Hogwarts Library. While in Oxford your guide can also show some of the other colleges that belong to the prestigious University and take a side trip to visit the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill, Blenheim Palace.
Christ Church can be included in our:
Oxford - 5 hour tour
Cotswold Country - 9 hour tour
Lacock
 Just a short drive from Bath is the tranquil National Trust village of Lacock, where the quiet leafy streets, lined with 16th Century cottages were used in the blockbuster film. This beautiful village will evoke memories in the minds of avid film buffs as it was also used in the period dramas Emma and Pride and Prejudice. The interior of the medieval Lacock Abbey was used as the classroom of Hogwarts school where Harry would sit with his fellow wizard apprentices.
Lacock can be included in:
Bath, Stonehenge, Salisbury - 10 hour tour
Bath - 7 hour tour
For scenes involving the Hogwarts' Quidditch match, they chose Alnwick Castle on the England/Scotland border. England's second largest inhabited castle boasted the unusual sight of around 30 children cloaked in wizard robes, learning to fly broomsticks in front of its medieval exterior.
The film-makers went to Yorkshire to find the location for Hogsmeade station. They chose the station in the moorland village of Goathland on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, one of Britain's many lovingly-preserved steam lines, which has hardly changed since opening in 1865.
There are other railway links in the movie. In London, not only platforms 4 and 5 at King's Cross station but also the Waterloo and City line (an underground railway) were employed as backdrops to Chris Columbus's film.
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