The North York Moors are poised to become "Harry Potter Country" with millions of visitors flocking to the area from across the world - a local MP has told the Commons.

Warner Brothers has begun filming young Harry's adventures for a movie due out next year.

Goathland Station on the moors was temporarily turned into Hogsmead Station by the Hollywood bosses.

Scarborough and Whitby MP Lawrie Quinn says the area's popularity as 'Heartbeat Country' could be eclipsed by Pottermania.

Harry is understood to have been filmed arriving on the Hogwarts Express to enrol at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

The Hogwarts Express, a specially-painted steam locomotive, was also filmed along the Newton Dale stretch of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR).

The National Park is already the setting for Heartbeat which is filmed in Goathland. Two million people visit the picturesque village every year to see the location of the 1960s police TV drama.

But this figure is set to be dwarfed by the crowds expected to descend on the heritage railway once the Harry Potter film is released.

Mr Quinn highlighted this during a Commons debate on National Parks.

He said: "In terms of the possibilities for global tourism, the minister and his colleagues should be aware that 'we ain't seen nothing yet' in our part of the world."