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Gazetteer
Azkaban
The Wizard's
prison, Azkaban
is located on an island far to the north of the North Sea.
location:
Map
of Wizarding Britain
Barnton
Barnton is located southeast of
Liverpool in Cheshire. Barnton is home to an amateur
Quidditch team. In the 1400s, Upper Barnton was also the home of a
famous nasty giant named Hengist who was killed by Gifford Ollerton (fw26).
Drear,
Isle of
The tiny island
of Drear is located off the northernmost point of Scotland. It's sole inhabitants
are the fierce Quintapeds.
The map, of course, shows only the approximate location of Drear, since
it is unplottable.
location:
Map
of Wizarding Britain
Greater
and Little Hangleton
Located two-hundred
miles from Little Whinging (which can only be to the north in Northumbria
or the Lake District to be that far from Surrey). Little Hangleton is the
location of the Riddle House, where Tom Riddle killed his father, Tom Riddle
Sr., and his grandparents in the summer of 1944.
location:
Map
of Wizarding Britain
There
is an actual place called Hangleton, in a place called Hove, near Brighton
on the East Sussex coast. [web
link]. It's located far too near to Privet Drive to be the "real" Hangleton,
however. (thanks to Greg McAusland on the Lexicon
Forum for this information)
Hogsmeade
The only totally
wizarding village in Britain, Hogsmeade
is located near Hogwarts School.
location:
Map
of Wizarding Britain, map
of Hogwarts and environs
details:
encyclopedia
listing, map
of the town
Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Hogwarts
is located some eight or nine hours north of London in Scotland.
location:
Map
of Wizarding Britain, map
of Hogwarts and environs
details:
encyclopedia
listing, additional
maps
Ilfracombe
This resort
town on the northern coast of Devon was the scene of an infamous attack
on a beach filled with Muggles by a rogue Welch Green Dragon.
The Muggles were "rescued" by Tilly Toke
(VG)
location:
Map
of Wizarding Britain
Little Whinging,
Surrey
A quiet, perfectly
normal suburb of London, where you'll find the quiet, perfectly normal
residence at Number
4, Privet Drive. Also the location of a zoo
that the Dursley family went to on Dudley's eleventh birthday.
location:
Map
of Wizarding Britain
details:
Little
Whinging,
Surrey
London
London
is the location of:
Ottery
St. Catchpole
A small town
along the River Otter in Devon, near Exeter. Ottery St. Catchpole is home
to several wizarding families: the Weasleys
(whose home is called The Burrow),
the Lovegoods, the Diggorys,
and the Fawcetts. Outside of the town is Stoatshead Hill.
location:
Map
of Wizarding Britain
details:
The
Burrow,map
of the town |
