Cokeworth

Cokeworth
Location information
Location	The Midlands, England
Permanent residents	Snape family (formerly) Evans family (formerly)

"The chilly mist... drifted over a dirty river that wound between overgrown, rubbish-strewn banks. An immense chimney, relic of a disused mil, reared up, shadowy and ominous. There was no sounds apart from the whisper of the black water and no sign of life apart from a scrawny fox that had slunk down the bank to nose hopefully at some old fish-and-chip wrappings in the tall grass."

— Description of the neighbourhood

Cokeworth is a large town located in the midlands of England, Great Britain. It is a town with several streets of identical brick, terraced, houses. It is located near a dirty river, the bank of which is strewn with litter. There is a disused mill with a tall chimney in this town.

History

Severus Snape lived in this town, on a street called Spinner's End. Lily and Petunia Evans lived in walking distance from Spinner's End during their childhood, with their mother and father.

The Railview Hotel, where Harry Potter and the Dursleys stayed while attempting to outrun Harry's letters from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 1991, is located on the outskirts of this city. Vernon Dursley chose to flee to this town when trying to evade the letters from Hogwarts because he felt the town was too distinctly unmagical for the letters to follow them there.

Behind the scenes

• The name is a reference to "Coketown," the fictional industrial centre in which Charles Dickens's novel Hard Times takes place. Commentators believe that Coketown was based on Manchester or Preston, but those real-world cities are in Lancashire while Cokeworth is in the Midlands.
• On the original script for the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, this town is referred to as "Mill Town."
• At the press conference for the unveiling ofPottermore, a preview of the website showed new information about the Dursleys from J.K. Rowling. This included the fact that the Evanses lived in Cokeworth, making this the city where Spinner's End was located.

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Appears in flashback(s))
• Pottermore