FREE Harry Potter Tour
Welcome witches, wizards, muggles, dementors and house-elves to the London school of Witchcraft and Wizardry! Wands at the ready, cauldrons on the boil, broomsticks in the air; its time to delve into the weird and wonderful world of Harry Potter in London…
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Welcome,’ said Hagrid, ‘to Diagon Alley.’
Cecil Court is lined with bizarre antiques stores and rare bookshops which gave J.k Rowling the inspiration for Diagon Alley. Flourish and Blotts, Gambol and Japes, Eeylops Owl Emporium, Madam Malkin’s and Olivander’s can all be found here by magical folk. Muggles will have to make do with Watkin Books and Sullivan Mark, although some of the bookshops here sell first editions of Harry Potter!
Opening Hours: 9am-6pm
Leicester Square Station
Leicester Square Station: 24, 29, 176
Q Park, Leicester Square,
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He was quite alone, but where he was, he had no idea. All he could tell was that he was standing in the stone fireplace of what looked like a large, dimly lit wizard’s shop – but nothing in here was ever likely to be on a Hogwarts school list.
Goodwin’s Court is the real-life site of Knockturn Alley, a dark and mysterious street where no muggle nor wizard should go…
Opening Hours: 24 hours, Every Day
St John’s Wood Station
Abbey Road Bus Stop: 139, 189,
Q Park, Kingsmill Terrace, St John’s Wood, London NW8 6AA
Excuse me Sir could you tell me how I might get to Platform 9 3/4?” “Platform 9 3/4, think you’re being funny do ya?”
Kings Cross is where students can catch the Hogwarts Express at Platform 9 3/4. You can take your photo outside the famous 9 3/4 sign. Magical folk can push their trolly through the invisible barrier to get to The Hogwarts Express. There is a gift shop next to it where you can buy your wands, jumpers and Gryffindor scarfs (or any other last-minute things you might need for your potions class).
Whilst you’re there you can always hop on a train to Cambridge and go on one of our Cambridge Footprints Tours, which run 11am and 2pm daily. Platform 9 3/4 gets very busy at peak-times and on the weekends. Try to get there early in the morning…or buy a time-turner! If the barrier is closed, you can always fly to Hogwarts in the Flying Car or go on one of our Oxford Harry Potter tours!
Mon-Sat 8am-10pm, Sunday 9am-9pm
Picadilly Circus (Picadilly and Bakerloo Line)
Q Park, (0113 238 4200), 39-41 Whitcomb St, London WC2H 7DT
Some people argue that the oldest pub in London is the White Hart on Drury Lane; others that it is the Angel on Bermondsey Wall, or the Lamb and Flag on Rose Street. All of these people are muggles, and all of them are wrong. The oldest pub in London, as any wizard will tell you, is the Leaky Cauldron on Charing Cross Road.”
The Leaky Cauldron maybe situated on Charing Cross Road in the wizarding world. However the scenes were filmed at The Leadenhall Market, a historic market in the City of London.
Mon-Sat 8am-10pm, Sunday 9am-9pm
Monument (District and Circle Lines)
Fenchurch Street: 35, 47, 48, 149, 344
NCP Car Park, Thames Exchange, Bell Wharf Lane, London EC4R 3TB
Enter, stranger, but take heed
Gringotts Bank was filmed at Australia House but the exterior is modeled on The South African embassy!
Mon-Sat 8am-10pm, Sunday 9am-9pm
Embankment (District and Circle Lines)
Royal Courts of Justice Stop K
Q Park Covent Garden, 34-35 Bedfordbury, London WC2N 4DU