THE FILM LOCATIONS ON
THE HARRY POTTER LONDON TOUR
CECIL COURT OFF CHARING CROSS ROAD
THE REAL DIAGON ALLEY
NEAREST UNDERGROUND STATION
LEICESTER SQUARE.
Cecil Court is lined with some wonderful and curious old shops that sell antiques, antiquarian books and other things.
It is widely believed that it was Cecil Court - which is "just off Charing Cross Road" - that provided the inspiration for Diagon Alley.
LEADENHALL MARKET - THE HARRY POTTER FILM LOCATION FOR DIAGON ALLEY.
NEAREST UNDERGROUND STATION: MONUMENT
Leadenhall Market, built in 1881, is London's most beautiful Victorian Market. It is also the location where some of the exterior Diagon Alley scenes were filmed.
THE ENTRANCE TO THE LEAKY CAULDRON - LEADENHALL MARKET.
NEAREST UNDERGROUND STATION: MOUNUMENT.
Located in Bull's Head Passage in Leadenhall Market this opticians shop was the film location used for the entrance to the Leaky Cauldron in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
TOWER BRIDGE AND THE
FLIGHT OF THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX.
NEAREST UNDERGROUND STATION
MONUMENT OR LONDON BRIDGE.
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry and the members of the order fly along the Thames on their broomsticks en route to 12 Grimauld Place. This is one of the sections of the Thames shown in the broomstick flight scene.
THE ENTRANCE TO THE LEAKY CAULDRIN - BOROUGH MARKET.
NEAREST UNDERGROUND STATION
LONDON BRIDGE
Two different London locations were used in the Harry Potter Films as the entrance to the Leaky Cauldron. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban the Leaky Cauldron moved from Leadenhall Market to this location in Borough Market. It was outside the doorway of this flower shop that the Knight Bus pulled up and caused the alarm on a parked car to go off.
Harry Potter then got off the bus and went in to the Leaky Cauldron, although the interior shots were done on a film set not here.
AUSTRALIA HOUSE - GRINGOTTS BANK.
NEAREST UNDERGROUND STATION
TEMPLE OR COVENT GARDEN.
It was inside Australia House, home to the Australian High Commission, that interior shots were filmed for the scenes featuring Gringotts, the wizards bank run by goblins.
THE VISITORS ENTRANCE TO THE MINISTRY OF MAGIC - GREAT SCOTLAND YARD
NEAREST UNDERGROUND STATION
CHARING CROSS, EMBANKMENT OR WESTMINISTER
It was on this corner, at the junction, of Scotland Place and Great Scotland Yard, that Harry and Mr Weasley enter the phone box in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix to descend into the Ministry of Magic.
Unfortunately for those who seek to recreate the scene there has never been a phone box at this junction, the one in the film being a specially brought in prop that was taken away once filming had finished.
WESTMINSTER UNDERGROUND STATION
PROBLEMS WITH THE TICKET BARRIER.
NEAREST UNDERGROUND STATION - WESTMINSTER.
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry and Mr Weasley pass through Westminster Underground Station en route to Harry's hearing at the Ministry of Magic.
It is one of the ticket barriers across from this entrance that gives Mr Weasley problems as he tries to exit through it.
WESTMINSTER BRIDGE AND THE FLIGHT OF THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX.
NEAREST UNDERGROUND STATION: WESTMINSTER.
As Harry and the members of the Order of the Phoenix fly along the River Thames on their broomsticks they fly past the Riverside Terrace of the Houses of Parliament.
LAMBETH BRIDGE - THE KNIGHT BUS SQUEEZES BETWEEN TWO REGULAR LONDON BUSES.
