HBO Harry Potter Series: London Filming Locations & What to Know

The trade publication reported filming on Borough High Street and coverage around The Blue Maid. It also described a possible Leaky Cauldron role, but that proposed fictional identity is the publication’s interpretation rather than an HBO confirmation. The secure claim is that production activity was reported on the street.

How to visit. Use London Bridge station and treat this as part of a broader Southwark walk. Borough High Street is a busy traffic and business corridor, not a preserved set. Nothing guarantees that façades, dressing or sightlines will match the finished episode. Do not enter a pub or shop merely to recreate an unconfirmed shot; patronise a business normally if you choose to go inside.

What to pair it with. Borough Market and Stoney Street have a separate, established relationship to Prisoner of Azkaban. Millennium Bridge and the Thames path continue the original-film route. This is the easiest reported television location to add without distorting a central London day.

A specialist production report placed activity at London Zoo during the first weeks of filming. HBO has not published a scene description in the sources used here. The zoo is already familiar to film fans because its reptile-house area is associated with the original screen story, but that earlier connection should not be used to guess what the television production filmed.

How to visit. London Zoo is a paid conservation attraction in Regent’s Park. Check the zoo’s official admission, opening and access information before travelling; do not assume a particular enclosure is open or unchanged. Allow several hours if animals and conservation work interest you. Buying admission only for a few seconds of future screen recognition is poor value.

What to pair it with. Regent’s Park, Camden and the Euston–King’s Cross area can form a north-London day. The zoo does not sit naturally on the east-to-west central filming walk, so forcing it into that route adds travel and a substantial ticket cost.

The same production recap reported filming involving performers at Embankment station on 21 July 2025. This is a report of work at the station, not official confirmation of the final scene. Television editing can combine entrances, platforms and nearby streets, and footage can be removed before release.

How to visit. Embankment is a functioning Underground station. Use it when it serves your actual journey; do not stop at gates, stairs or platform edges for photographs. Outside, the Thames, Victoria Embankment Gardens and a short walk toward Charing Cross provide a reason to pause safely. Check live TfL information for closures and step-free requirements.

What to pair it with. It sits between the Westminster cluster and the West End. The self-guided filming route already explains how to avoid backtracking through this part of London. Treat the station as a connective point rather than a destination.

BBC News reported a scene being filmed in Hoddesdon involving a performer cast as Vernon Dursley and a figure in a purple cloak. That reporting gives more scene context than a distant set photograph, but HBO has not issued a visitor-facing location confirmation.

How to visit. Hoddesdon is a Hertfordshire town north of London, not a central-London neighbourhood. Use National Rail’s live journey planner for the date, then check the local connection from the chosen station. The production dressing and road controls were temporary. Visit only if the town already interests you or you are building a wider Hertfordshire day; a special trip in search of a removed set is unlikely to reward a first-time London visitor.

What to pair it with. It does not combine efficiently with the Studio Tour merely because both places are in Hertfordshire. Leavesden lies west of London while Hoddesdon lies to the north-east. A map makes the same-county label look simpler than the public-transport journey really is.

Vanity Fair reported a temporary production set in Windsor Great Park in September 2025. VisitBritain has since included the reported set in its television-series location summary. Neither source turns the production area into a public attraction, and the reported structure should not be assumed to remain in place.

How to visit. Windsor Great Park is a huge landscape with public areas, changing opening information, paid parking and some separately ticketed facilities. Plan around an official public entrance and an attraction such as Virginia Water or the Long Walk. Do not seek Forest Lodge, cross barriers or follow production traffic. Private and operational parts of the estate remain private even when a news report names the wider park.

What to pair it with. Windsor works as a conventional day out from London, but the park and Windsor Castle require more time than a quick location pin suggests. If the television report is your only interest, wait until an episode airs and HBO confirms what the landscape represents before committing a day.