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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Filming Locations
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was filmed at Seven Sisters in East Sussex, Ivinghoe Beacon in the Chiltern Hills, Black Park in Buckinghamshire, New College and the Divinity School in Oxford, and Steall Falls in Glen Nevis.
From the Portkey landing before the Quidditch World Cup to the dragon task and the Yule Ball lessons, this route follows the 2005 film in story order. Scenes at Hogwarts itself and at the studio are not covered here.
Timeline & locations
What do the location labels mean?
- Exact
- The pin marks the actual place where it happened or was filmed.
- Approximate
- The right area — a town, park or district — but not a precise spot.
On the way to the Quidditch World Cup, the Weasleys and Harry travel by Portkey and land on a cliff top. The cliff was in Seven Sisters Country Park near Seaford, East Sussex, and Kirby wires suspended the actors in the air for the landing. The Seven Sisters themselves, a series of chalk sea cliffs on the English Channel coast, are seen in the background of the World Cup scenes.
Location precision: The pin marks the centre of Seven Sisters Country Park; the landing cliff is not pinpointed.
Visitor guidance: Seven Sisters Country Park is near Seaford on the East Sussex coast.
Sources
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
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- Plot; Filming
- Seven Sisters Country Park
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- Intro; Cliffs
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
The Quidditch World Cup campsite was filmed in the countryside near the studio, at Ivinghoe Beacon and Ashridge Wood. In the story, Harry attends the match with the Weasleys and Cedric and his father Amos, and that night Death Eaters attack the campsite and the unknown man from Harry's nightmare casts the Dark Mark. Ivinghoe Beacon is a hill 233 m (757 ft) above sea level in the Chiltern Hills, managed and owned by the National Trust.
Location precision: The film used both Ivinghoe Beacon and Ashridge Wood for the campsite; the pin marks the Beacon.
Visitor guidance: National Trust land, open to walkers.
Sources
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
- Locator:
- Plot; Filming
- Ivinghoe Beacon
- Locator:
- Intro
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
The forest where Hagrid shows Harry the dragons was set in Black Park, next to Pinewood Studios. It is the night Harry learns what the champions must get past in the first task. Black Park is a country park in Wexham, Buckinghamshire, with an area of 250 hectares (618 acres).
Visitor guidance: A country park in Wexham, Buckinghamshire.
Sources
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
- Locator:
- Plot; Filming
- Black Park
- Locator:
- Intro
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
Harry's confrontation with Malfoy, who is then turned into a ferret by Moody, was shot in the courtyard quadrangle of the New College Cloister in Oxford. The cloisters, consecrated as a burial site in 1400, sit by the western wall of the chapel, and their large holm oak tree features in the scene in which Malfoy becomes a white ferret.
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- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
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- Plot; Filming
- New College, Oxford
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- Chapel and cloisters
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
For the first task the champions must retrieve an egg by getting past a dragon. The sequence was filmed at Steall Falls in Glen Nevis and Black Rock Gorge. Steall is Scotland's second-highest waterfall, with a drop of 120 metres (390 feet), and can be viewed from the path through the Nevis Gorge.
Location precision: The film combined Steall Falls with Black Rock Gorge; the pin marks the falls.
Visitor guidance: The falls can be viewed from the path through Nevis Gorge.
Sources
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
- Locator:
- Plot; Filming
- Steall Falls
- Locator:
- Intro
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
The Divinity School served as the room where McGonagall teaches Gryffindor students how to dance for the Yule Ball; it had also been Hogwarts' infirmary in previous films. Built in Oxford between 1427 and 1483, it is the oldest surviving purpose-built building for university use, and its elaborate lierne vaulting has 455 bosses.
Sources
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
- Locator:
- Plot; Filming
- Divinity School, Oxford
- Locator:
- Intro
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)