Towns & cities

Lacock Abbey

abbey in Wiltshire, England, UK

United Kingdom · 51.4147, -2.1172

High Street, Lacock, Wiltshire, SN15 2LG·Official site

Lacock Abbey is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Lacock Abbey, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 2 more.

“Scenes from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) were also shot here.”

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) · Wikipedia

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Movies filmed in Lacock Abbey

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald 2018

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Lacock Abbey as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002
“Gloucester Cathedral was used as the setting for Hogwarts School, along with Durham Cathedral, Alnwick Castle, Lacock Abbey, and the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.” Wikipedia
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2009
“A series of night scenes were filmed in the village of Lacock and the cloisters at Lacock Abbey for three nights starting 25 October 2007.” Wikipedia

Named here by Lacock Abbey’s own Wikipedia article

Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Lacock Abbey, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 2001

“Some interior sequences in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) were filmed at Lacock, including the cloister walk where Harry discovers the Mirror of Erised and when he comes out from Professor Lockhart's room after serving detention and hears the basilisk.” Wikipedia
Pride and Prejudice 1995–

“The interior of the abbey was used in the 1995 BBC/A&E production of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and the BBC adaptation of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, and scenes for the BBC's historical TV serial Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel, were filmed here in 2014.” Wikipedia

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Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Lacock Abbey?

3 productions are recorded as filmed in Lacock Abbey, including Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009). 2 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Lacock Abbey?

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), covered by 56 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Lacock Abbey?

Lacock Abbey is in the United Kingdom, at High Street, Lacock, Wiltshire, SN15 2LG. Its coordinates are 51.4147, -2.1172.

What other filming locations are near Lacock Abbey?

Lacock (under 1 km), Melksham (5 km south), Chippenham (5 km north), Corsham Court (5 km north-west) and 2 more — all within 40 km and listed on this page with photographs.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Jürgen Matern, CC BY-SA 2.5.