Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden

Sunday, 12 November 2023 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination:
Category/Kategorie: General, London
Reading Time:  3 minutes

Warner Bros. Studio Tour London - The Making of Harry Potter entrance © Karen Roe/cc-by-3.0

Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter entrance © Karen Roe/cc-by-3.0

Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden is an 80 ha (200-acre) studio complex in Leavesden in Watford, Hertfordshire, in the East of England. Formerly known as Leavesden Film Studios and still colloquially known as Leavesden Studios or simply Leavesden, it is a film and media complex owned by Warner Bros. The studios were all converted from an aircraft factory and airfield called Leavesden Aerodrome, a centre of British aircraft production during World War II. The nearest railway station is King’s Langley which is a walking distance of 1.3 miles (2.1 km).

Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden is one of only a few places in the UK where large-scale film productions can be made. The studios contain approximately 50,000 m² (540,000 sq ft) of flexible space which includes stage space, one of the largest filtered and heated stage-based water tanks in Europe, production office space, workshops and support buildings, along with an extensive 32 ha (79 acres) backlot which offers a 180-degree uninterrupted horizon, favourable for exterior sets. Following a £110 million refurbishment by Warner Bros., the studios are now one of the largest and most state-of-the-art secure filmmaking facilities in the world.

Lobby © flickr.com - Karen Roe/cc-by-2.0 Shop © flickr.com - Karen Roe/cc-by-2.0 Potter's cottage, Godric's Hollow © Marek69/cc-by-sa-4.0 The Great Hall, Hogwarts © Marek69/cc-by-sa-4.0 The Knight Bus © Marek69/cc-by-sa-4.0 Warner Bros. Studio Tour London - The Making of Harry Potter entrance © Karen Roe/cc-by-3.0 Diagon Alley © flickr.com - Mike Prince/cc-by-2.0
<
>
Warner Bros. Studio Tour London - The Making of Harry Potter entrance © Karen Roe/cc-by-3.0
Though the studios are owned by Warner Bros., all of the studio facilities are available to rent for any production. Since acquiring the site, Warner Bros. has opened a public attraction named Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter, which receives over 6,000 visitors a day at peak times. The site maintains a secure studio space within the same complex.

Read more on Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter, Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden and Wikipedia Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden (Smart Traveler App by U.S. Department of State - Weather report by weather.com - Global Passport Power Rank - Travel Risk Map - Democracy Index - GDP according to IMF, UN, and World Bank - Global Competitiveness Report - Corruption Perceptions Index - Press Freedom Index - World Justice Project - Rule of Law Index - UN Human Development Index - Global Peace Index - Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index). Photos by Wikimedia Commons. If you have a suggestion, critique, review or comment to this blog entry, we are looking forward to receive your e-mail at comment@wingsch.net. Please name the headline of the blog post to which your e-mail refers to in the subject line.




Recommended posts:

Share this post: (Please note data protection regulations before using buttons)

Mladá Boleslav northeast of Prague

Mladá Boleslav northeast of Prague

[caption id="attachment_151514" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Old Town Square with Old Town Hall and Marian column © Sokoljan/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Mladá Boleslav is a city in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic, on the left bank of the Jizera river about 50 kilometres (31 miles) northeast of Prague. Founded in the second half of the 10th century by King Boleslav II as a royal castle. Because there already was a castle known as Boleslav near Prague, this new castle was named Mladá (yo...

[ read more ]

Theme Week Queensland - Gold Coast

Theme Week Queensland - Gold Coast

[caption id="attachment_168850" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Entrance to Surfers Paradise Beach © Rocky88/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The Gold Coast is a coastal city in Queensland, approximately 66 kilometres (41 mi) south-southeast of the state capital Brisbane and immediately north of the border with New South Wales. With a population of 640,000, The Gold Coast is the sixth-largest city in Australia, making it the largest non-capital city, and the second-largest city in Queensland. The first settlement in what...

[ read more ]

Île d'Yeu on the French Atlantic coast

Île d'Yeu on the French Atlantic coast

[caption id="attachment_209350" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Port-Joinville © OT iledyeu/cc-by-sa-4.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Île d'Yeu is an island and commune just off the Vendée coast of western France. The island's two harbours, Port-Joinville in the north, and Port de la Meule, which itself is located in a rocky inlet of the southern granite coast, are famous for the fishing of tuna and lobster. Administratively, the commune of L'Île-d'Yeu is part of the Vendée department and the Pays de la Loire region of France...

[ read more ]

Grant Park in Chicago

Grant Park in Chicago

[caption id="attachment_185760" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Spirit of Music Garden © Alanscottwalker/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Grant Park is a large urban park (319 acres or 1.29 km²) in the Loop community area of Chicago. Located in Chicago's central business district, the park's most notable features are Millennium Park, Buckingham Fountain, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum Campus. Originally known as Lake Park, and dating from the city's founding, it was renamed in 1901 to honor Ulysses S. Grant...

[ read more ]

The American Museum of Natural History on the Upper West Side in Manhattan

The American Museum of Natural History on the Upper West Side in Manhattan

[caption id="attachment_152156" align="aligncenter" width="590"] American Museum of Natural History with Theodore Roosevelt monument © Ingfbruno/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH), located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is one of the largest museums in the world. Located in park-like grounds across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 27 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a plan...

[ read more ]

Rue des Rosiers in the Marais district

Rue des Rosiers in the Marais district

[caption id="attachment_27484" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © Abxbay/cc-by-sa-4.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The Rue des Rosiers, which means "street of the rosebushes," is a street in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. It begins at Rue Malher and proceeds northwest across Rue Pavée, Rue Ferdinand Duval, Rue des Écouffes, and Rue des Hospitalières Saint-Gervais before it ends at Rue Vieille du Temple. Rue des Rosiers lies at the center of the Jewish quarter unofficially called "the Pletzl" (Yiddish for "little place...

[ read more ]

Theme Week New Caledonia

Theme Week New Caledonia

[caption id="attachment_150403" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Île des Pins - Traditional pirogue © Bruno.Menetrier[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia and 16,136 km (10,026 mi) east of Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Chesterfield Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of Pines, and a few remote islets. T...

[ read more ]

Harrogate in North Yorkshire

Harrogate in North Yorkshire

[caption id="attachment_151979" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Betty's Tea Rooms © Bucs[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Harrogate is a spa town in North Yorkshire, England. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the town is a tourist destination and its visitor attractions include its spa waters and RHS Harlow Carr gardens. Nearby is the Yorkshire Dales national park and the Nidderdale AONB. Harrogate grew out of two existing smaller settlements, High Harrogate and Low Harrogate, in the 17th century. It is consistently voted...

[ read more ]

Theme Week Bahrain - Hawar Islands

Theme Week Bahrain - Hawar Islands

[caption id="attachment_164210" align="aligncenter" width="583"] Hawar Islands Resort © Rudolph Jouber/cc-by-sa-1.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The Hawar Islands is an archipelago of desert islands owned by Bahrain, situated off the west coast of Qatar in the Gulf of Bahrain of the Persian Gulf. The islands used to be one of the settlements of the Bahraini branch of the Dawasir who settled there in the early 19th century. The islands were first surveyed in 1820, when they were called the Warden’s Islands, and two villages were ...

[ read more ]

Theme Week Belarus - Homiel

Theme Week Belarus - Homiel

[caption id="attachment_228645" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Regional Drama Theater © Alexander Sokolov/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Homiel or Gomel is the administrative centre of Gomel Region and the second-most populous city of Belarus with 526,872 inhabitants (2015 census). Homiel is situated in the southeastern part of the country, on the right bank of the river Sozh, 302 km (188 mi) south-east of Minsk, 534 km (332 mi) east of Brest, 171 km (106 mi) south of Mogilev, 237 km (147 mi) west of Bryansk and 111 k...

[ read more ]

Return to TopReturn to Top
Magen David Square © השמח השמח
Allenby Street in Tel Aviv

Allenby Street (Hebrew: Rekhov Allenby) is a major street in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was named in honor of Field...

© Tango7174/cc-by-sa-4.0
Plaça de Catalunya in Barcelona

Plaça de Catalunya (meaning in English "Catalonia Square"; sometimes referred to as Plaza de Cataluña, its Spanish name) is a...

© Jörg Zägel/cc-by-sa-3.0
Fraenkelufer Synagogue in Berlin

The synagogue on Fraenkelufer (German: Fraenkelufer Synagoge) in Berlin's Kreuzberg district was built as an Orthodox Synagogue between 1913 and...

Close