Bodleian Library
OxfordOxford's great university library, whose Divinity School and Duke Humfrey's Library starred as Hogwarts.
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Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG
Quick facts
Sir Thomas Bodley refounded the library in 1602, and it reopened on 8 November 1602 on the base of a 14th-century collection.
Duke Humfrey's Library, completed above the Divinity School in 1488, and the Divinity School itself appear in the Harry Potter films as Hogwarts' library and hospital wing.
It is one of six UK legal deposit libraries, entitled to a copy of every book published in the UK, and the Old Schools Quadrangle and Divinity School are open to the public.
Address
Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG
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