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Location, Location: an examination of what we can deduce about the real-world position of various places mentioned in the Harry Potter books.
N.B. Spinner's End and Hogwarts/Hogsmeade are covered by their own separate essays. For reasons explained in those essays I deduced that Spinner's End was most likely in north Derbyshire or south or west Lancashire, and Hogwarts in the Kintail/Lochalsh area of the West Highlands, or just possibly in the Galloway Hills.
Note that the Hogwarts/Hogsmeade essay is part of a work-in-progress, which is incomplete. The text has been written for all the sections except the castle itself, which is under development, but the major maps have not been produced yet and won't be until the castle section is finished.
I had originally planned this essay on the locations of various other places mentioned in the Potter books as one web-page: but I realised that that resulted in a single page with 20Mb-worth of illustrations which would take forever to load, so I cut it into a series of individual sections. They make most sense if read in the order listed, as several of the sites are grouped quite closely together and they build on maps and descriptions from previous sections.
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Jump to: Diagon and Knockturn Alleys Grimauld Place, the Ministry of Magic and St Mungo's Little Whinging and Vernon's island Ottery St Catchpole Tinworth/Shell Cottage Godric's Hollow (with an explanation for the infamous missing 26 hours) The site of the Quidditch World Cup The Horcrux cave Azkaban Other (Upper Flagley; Great and Little Hangleton; Malfoy Manor & the Forest of Dean)
