Harry Potter Oxford Filming Locations Private Walking Tour

Explore Harry Potter filming inspirations in Oxford on a private guided walking tour with a professional local guide.

Getting started

Meet your professional local tour guide in central Oxford and set off on your private guided walking tour. As this is a walking route, you follow your guide between each stop at a steady city pace. The exact order of the program and attractions may vary by date, time, and crowd conditions, so every visit unfolds a little differently.

What to expect

Blackwell's

Blackwell's is a historic Oxford bookshop that has long been associated with scholarly life and imaginative stories.

Features

• Step inside Blackwell's and envision magical tomes in the enchanting ambiance that recalls the world of wizarding textbooks and spell books.
• As part of your private guided walking tour, your expert guide leads you through Blackwell's, using its atmosphere to connect Oxford's literary side with Harry Potter heritage.

Bodleian exterior

The Bodleian exterior offers views of one of Oxford's most recognized library complexes, whose appearance has invited comparisons to Hogwarts' library.

Features

• From outside, you can marvel at the Bodleian's façade, which echoes Hogwarts' mystical library and helps you picture how Oxford's architecture inspired on-screen settings.
• Your professional guide includes a visit to the Bodleian exterior in the private guided walking tour, using this stop to point out details that fans often associate with the films.

Christ Church

Christ Church is one of Oxford's most renowned colleges and a key architectural muse for Hogwarts in the Harry Potter films.

Features

• While your guide cannot include the Christ Church entrance fee of £10, you learn how its spaces and design helped shape the visual world of Hogwarts.
• During the visit to Christ Church on your private guided walking tour, your expert guide highlights specific areas connected to the Harry Potter heritage and explains their role as inspirations.

New College

New College is another Oxford college whose cloisters and courtyards served as architectural muses for Hogwarts.

Features

• The New College entrance fee of £7 is excluded from the tour price, so any entry is at your own expense if you choose to go inside during your visit.
• On this stop at New College, your guide focuses on how its architecture contributed to the look and feel of Hogwarts, building on the Harry Potter themes explored earlier in the walk.

Divinity School

Divinity School is an Oxford space that Harry Potter fans often associate with on-screen Hogwarts interiors.

Features

• The Divinity School entrance fee of £2.50 is not included, and your guide can adapt the stop here based on crowd conditions and your preferences.
• If this location is part of your route, your private tour with a local guide uses Divinity School to deepen the connection between Oxford's real settings and the film universe, in line with the Harry Potter heritage focus.