Given the wizarding world’s need for secrecy, Quidditch pitches tend to be built in more isolated places, where Muggles won’t notice them. Although the actors in the Harry Potter films shot their Quidditch scenes at Leavesden Studios, most of the exterior location and backdrop shots were filmed at Glen Nevis, a valley north of Fort William in Scotland, Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the United Kingdom, which is one of the mountains that surround Glen Nevis, and Steall Falls, at the foot of Ben Nevis. The Quidditch World Cup exteriors and background shots were filmed at Beachy Head near Eastbourne, East Sussex, in the south of England.