Fade In: Scotland | Outlander & Harry Potter Film Location Guide

This guide covers Scotland. Southern England and Wales are in the full UK guide, if you want all three: Fade In: The UK

The planning is done. Now all you have to do is book it.

Five days, or six if you take the Inverness side quest, and every decision about how to see them already made. Stand at Lallybroch's door. Watch the Jacobite steam across the Glenfinnan Viaduct. Walk a village that plays two centuries at once. Stand in the courtyard where Outlander, Monty Python and Game of Thrones all filmed the same castle. Finish with Glencoe rolling out the Outlander opening titles in real weather.

This is a 25 page digital PDF guide to the real filming locations of Outlander, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail across Edinburgh, Linlithgow, Blackness, Midhope, Doune, Culross, Falkland, Glencoe and Glenfinnan, planned into one self-contained five day route. Download it the moment you buy, ready to print or carry on your phone.

Read some of it before you buy. There is a free preview on this page with a full stop from the guide, prices and all.

What is inside:

- One planned route from Edinburgh to Glenfinnan, about 5 days, or 6 with the side quest

- 9 numbered stops plus the Inverness side quest, Culloden and the Clava Cairns

- Real filming locations for Outlander, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, with the scene each one appears in

- A map for the whole loop, plus a QR code so you can open it from a printed page

- Honest access notes for every stop: step-free or not, parking, terrain, nearest station

- Rail and public transport routes alongside driving, including the Jacobite steam train, so part of this works without a car

- Practical boxes with prices, opening times and booking windows, all checked and dated 2026

- Honest flags where they matter. Midhope Castle is the Lallybroch exterior only, the interior is derelict and closed. The Jacobite sells out months ahead in summer. Glencoe is a view rather than a visit, and the guide says so rather than letting you find out at the gate

- A live updates page. If a price or an opening time moves after you buy, it gets logged there, so your copy stays reliable

Why not just ask an AI to plan this?

You can, and it will hand you a list that sounds right. What it will not do is design the trip. I use AI myself, for research and for drafting. It does not plan and it does not decide. I do. I chose these places, worked out which filming locations were actually worth the time, and built them into one route that flows in the order that makes sense on the ground. I decided which stops to cut, which to flag, and where a booking window is tight enough to catch people out, like the Jacobite selling out months ahead in summer, or Midhope releasing limited slots each week and closing at short notice for filming. Then I checked every price, opening time and location against official sources and dated it, in 2026. An AI will tell you a place is open with total confidence when it has been closed all year. This is a planned, checked trip, not a list you have to sanity check yourself before you travel.

Delivery: Instant digital download after purchase. PDF format, readable on phone, tablet or printed at home.

Unofficial fan travel guide. Not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored or licensed by any studio, broadcaster, streaming service or rights holder. All titles are used only to identify publicly known filming locations.