Rowling famously spent her time in cafes due to a shortage of cash, writing in places like The Elephant House on Edinburgh’s George IV Bridge, which has a plaque outside the building commemorating her time writing there. However, things really went into overdrive when she arrived in Edinburgh and began writing on a more full-time basis. Rowling endured difficult marriages and economic uncertainty living in London and Edinburgh in the 1990s. She has said that the idea for Harry Potter came to her on the train from Manchester to London, and that the book first began life when she lived in Clapham, south London. The books are among the biggest selling in children’s literature history, and the resulting films catapulted Harry, Hermione, Ron, all their friends, and enemies, into the public eye.Īround the world, Harry Potter is synonymous with Britain, and tourists arrive in their thousands to revel in the locations that inspired JK Rowling to write the original books, and those that were made famous on the silver screen, when Harry launched from the page to the cinema. Harry Potter’s wizarding world has inspired children, and adults, around the globe for 25 years. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the beloved Harry Potter books, Chris Beanland takes a tour of some of the Harry Potter filming locations in the UK the real-life places that inspired the books and featured on film Harry Potter filming locations in the UK
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