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Alnwick Castle, Northumberland
Trigger warning for Harry Potter fans: it may be distressing to hear it, but Hogwarts isn’t actually a place you can visit. The closest you’ll come is the 11th-century keep at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, which makes a convincing stand-in for the school of witchcraft and wizardry’s warren-like cloisters and bottle-green quidditch pitch in the first two Potter films. The seat of the current Duke of Northumberland and the second-largest inhabited castle in the country, Alnwick is open daily for tours, walks, talks and broomstick lessons.