England

**England** is a country on the island of Great Britain in Northern Europe. It is bordered by Scotland and Wales, and its capital city is London. It is the central country of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It was home to both Muggles and Wizardkind. Many famous wizards like Albus Dumbledore, Lord Voldemort, Severus Prince-Slytherin, and Harry Potter came from here.

## Muggle world

* England, and Great Britain as a whole, is a constitutional monarchy, whose current reigning monarch is Queen Elizabeth II.
* The Prime Minister lives at Number Ten, Downing Street, London.
* The Dursley family lives at 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging in Surrey, England.
* Aunt Marge lives in the English countryside in a country town.
* Smeltings Academy and its staff are located somewhere outside London.

## Wizarding world

### Overview

* The wizarding streets of Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley were located in the city of London, the capital of this country.
* Many of the wizards and witches in England had moved to areas with mixed magical and Muggle communities, such as Godric's Hollow and Ottery St Catchpole.
* Many of the battles in the Second Wizarding War happened in England.

### Government

The wizarding community in England was governed by the British Ministry of Magic, which was located in London.

### Education

English witches and wizards had the option to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Scotland.
As shown by Lucius Malfoy's wish to send Draco to Durmstrang Institute, English witches and wizards also had the option to attend other wizarding schools abroad, like Durmstrang Institute.
Hogwarts students boarded the Hogwarts Express, which left King's Cross Station from Platform Nine and Three-Quarters on 1 September to go to Hogwarts.

### Games and sports

* Magical games and sports fell under the control of the Department of Magical Games and Sports.
	+ England hosted the final of the 1994 Quidditch World Cup.
	+ Shuntbumps was a popular game in Devon.
	+ Swivenhodge was a broom game that began in Herefordshire. England was or had been home to the following Quidditch teams:
	+ The Appleby Arrows
	+ Barnton amateur Quidditch team
	+ The Chudley Cannons
	+ The English National Quidditch team
	+ The English under-17 Quidditch team
	+ The Falmouth Falcons
	+ Ilkley Quidditch team
	+ Lancashire Quidditch team
	+ Puddlemere United
	+ Puddlemere United reserve team
	+ The Tutshill Tornados
	+ The Wimbourne Wasps
	+ Yorkshire Quidditch team England was or had been home to the following Quidditch pitches:
	+ Bodmin Moor Millenium Stadium
	+ English National Quidditch Stadium
	+ Exmoor Quidditch Stadium
	+ Ilkley Moor Quidditch Stadium
	+ Quidditch Trillenium Stadium
	+ Yorkshire Moors Quidditch Stadium

## Food and beverages

* A Cornish pastie was a pastry from Cornwall, England.
* Yorkshire pudding was a dish that originated in Yorkshire, England.

## Known locations

### Exclusively magical

* Diagon Alley, London
	+ 18a Diagon Alley
	+ 59 Diagon Alley
	+ 92 Diagon Alley
	+ 93 Diagon Alley
	+ 94 Diagon Alley
	+ 129b Diagon Alley
	+ 275 Diagon Alley
* Knockturn Alley, London
	+ 13B Knockturn Alley

### Muggle and magical

* Appleby
* Avalon
* Barnton
* Bedfordshire
	+ Dunstable
		- Dunstable Town Hall
* Berkshire
	+ Eton
	+ Maidenhead
* Birmingham
* Bristol
* Brockdale Bridge
* Brookshire
	+ Crowford
		- North Street
			* 32a North Street
* Budleigh Babberton
* Chipping Clodbury
* Clapham
	+ Laburnum Gardens
		- 2 Laburnum Gardens
* Cokeworth
	+ Spinner's End
	+ Railview Hotel
* Dorset
	+ Millburn
		- Lanes End
			* 17 Lanes End
	+ Wimbourne
* Gloucestershire
	+ Cotswolds (partially)
	+ Forest of Dean
		- Forest of Dean ruins
		- Woodcroft
	+ Painswick
	+ Stinchcombe
* Hampshire
	+ Little Dropping
	+ New Forest
	+ Portsmouth
* Herefordshire
* Hertfordshire
	+ Cuffley
* Horcrux cave, by the Sea
* Hut-on-the-Rock, on the Sea
* Ilkey
* Isle of Wight, an island county located about five miles off the south coast of the English mainland.
* Kent
* Lancashire
	+ Blackpool
		- Blackpool pier
* Liverpool
	+ River Mersey
* London
	+ Elephant and Castle
	+ Harringay
		- Finsbury Park
	+ Islington
		- Grimmauld Place
			* 11 Grimmauld Place
			* 12 Grimmauld Place
			* 13 Grimmauld Place
	+ King's Cross Station
	+ Millennium Bridge
	+ Museum of Quidditch
	+ Paddington Station
		- Hamburger restaurant at Paddington Station
	+ Post Office tower
	+ Private Hospital
	+ Pudding Lane
		- Bakery
	+ Shaftesbury Avenue
	+ Tottenham Court Road
		- Luchino Caffe
	+ Vauxhall Road
		- Winstanley's Bookstore & Stationers
	+ Wool's Orphanage
	+ Westminster
		- 10 Downing Street
		- Charing Cross Road
			* Angus Steak House
			* Leicester Square Station
			* Leaky Cauldron
			* Sytner
* Maidenhead
* Manchester
	+ Didsbury
* Norfolk
	+ Cromer
* Norfolk
* Northamptonshire
	+ Kettering
* Nottinghamshire
	+ Nottingham
* Oxfordshire
	+ Cotswolds (partially)
	+ Nettlebed
* Surrey
	+ Bakery
	+ Chertsey
	+ Grunnings, a drill company
	+ Little Whinging (Harry Potter, the only wizard, and Arabella Figg, a Squib)
		- Little Whinging fair
		- Magnolia Crescent
			* 2 Magnolia Crescent
		- Magnolia Road
		- Privet Drive
			* 4 Privet Drive
			* 7 Privet Drive
		- Wisteria Walk
			* 6 Wisteria Walk
	+ Staines
	+ Zoo
* Tutshill
* Upper Barnton
* Warwickshire
	+ Cotswolds (partially)
* West Country, a region of southwestern England.
	+ Cornwall
		- Bodmin Moor
		- Falmouth
		- Tinworth
			* Shell Cottage
	+ Devon
		- Chudley
		- Exmoor (partially)
		- Ilfracombe
		- Ottery St Catchpole
			* The Burrow
			* Lovegood House
			* Stoatshead Hill
		- Topsham
	+ Godric's Hollow
		- Potter Cottage
		- Dumbledore House
		- Bthilda Bagshot's House
		- St Jerome's Church
		- Godric's Hollow graveyard
	+ Somerset
		- Cotswolds (partially)
			* Bath
		- Exmoor (partially)
		- Modesty Rabnott Snidget Reservation
* Wiltshire
	+ Cotswolds (partially)
	+ Malfoy Manor
* Wimbourne Minster
* Worcestershire
	+ Cotswolds (partially)
	+ Herbe Garden
* Wye River
* Yorkshire
	+ Barnsley
	+ Doncaster
	+ Great Hangleton
	+ Ilkey
		- Ilkey Moor
	+ Little Hangleton
		- Gaunt Shack
		- Riddle House
		- Little Hangleton graveyard
		- The Hanged Man
		- Upper Flagley
* Mould-on-the-Wold