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Top Literary-related places to visit in London.

It's a magnet is London, always has been, it's always been the centre of the publishing world and London is awash with places that Dicken's lived, Shakespeare played, and many authors were inspired.

TOP 10 LITERARY RELATED SIGHTS IN LONDON:

1. The Elephant and Castle Story	2. Bleeding Heart Yard	3. Tragic house of Karl Marx	4. The Old Curiosity Shop	5. The Boot
6. The Red Lion of Soho	7. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin	8. Princess Diana's Playground	9. Mrs Lovett's Pie House	10. Quercus - Publishing Revelation

MORE LITERARY SIGHTS:

11. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
12. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
13. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
14. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
15. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
16. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
17. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
18. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
19. Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd @ 3 St. James's Street, Lambeth
20. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
21. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
22. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
23. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
24. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
25. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
26. Anthony Hopkins Odd Coincidence @ Leicester Square Tube station, London
27. The Albany, home to AJ Raffles @ Albany Court, St James, London
28. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
29. The Original Hatchard's @ 173 Piccadilly, London
30. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
31. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
32. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
33. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
34. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
35. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
36. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
37. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
38. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
39. Creator of the A-Z born here @ 3 Court Lane Gardens, East Dulwich, London
40. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
41. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
42. Peter the Great trashed here @ 146 Deptford High Street, London
43. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
44. Gordons... Wine Specialist @ 47 Villiers Street
45. Bram Stoker lived here @ 18 St Leonards Terrace, Chelsea
46. Legend of Fu Manchu @ Gill Street, Limehouse, London
47. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
48. The Old Nicholl @ Arnold Circus, Tower Hamlets, London
49. Canonbury Towers @ Canonbury Place, Islington
50. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
51. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
52. The Riceyman Steps @ To Granville Place, London
53. Mervyn Peake lived here @ 1 Drayton Gardens, London
54. Author DH Lawrence lived here @ 32 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
55. Home of poet Robert Browning @ 19 Warwick Crescent, Paddington, London
56. Writer Bret Harte lived here @ 74 Lancaster Gate, London
57. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
58. Samuel Beckett lived here @ 34 Gertrude Street, Chelsea
59. Barn Elms Kit Cat House @ Barn Elms, Putney, London
60. The Wig and Pen Club @ 230 The Strand, Westminster, London
61. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
62. The French House @ 49 Dean Street
63. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
64. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
65. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
66. Last Gay Bookshop @ 66 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
67. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
68. Cash in the Wind @ The Bank Of England
69. Goldsmith and Blackstone @ 2 Brick Court, Temple, London
70. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
71. A Funny Man schooled here @ The Ride, Brentford
72. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
73. Rights of Man written here @ The Old Red Lion, Islington, London
74. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
75. Highgate Hill's Memorial Story @ Highgate Hill
76. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
77. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
78. JG Ballard's Millenium People @ Chelsea Marina Harbour, Fulham, London
79. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
80. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
81. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
82. Heath Robinson lived here @ Moy Lodge, 75 Moss Lane, Pinner, Harrow
83. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
84. The First ever London Theatre @ 86-88 Curtain Road
85. Novelist James Hilton lived here @ 42 Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green
86. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
87. HG Wells lived here @ 13 Hanover Terrace, Green Park, London
88. King Kong Edgar Wallaces House @ 6 Tressillian Crescent, Brockley
89. A Fitzroy Blue Plaque @ 29 Fitzroy Square
90. The Wheatsheaf @ 25 Rathbone Place
91. World's Biggest Plum Pudding! @ 17 Easycheap, London
92. 2 Blokes, 1 Bookshop, No Idea @ Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green
93. Famous Drinkers to die for @ 127 Gloucester Road, Kensington
94. An Art & Print Treasure @ Bride Lane, Fleet Street
95. Rudyard Kipling lived here @ 43 Villiers Street, Westminster
96. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station
97. Doves Bindery and Press @ 15 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
98. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese @ 145 Fleet St
99. Temple Church @ Temple, London
100. Cliveden and the Profumo Affair @ Taplow, Maidenhead
101. Charles Kingsley lived here @ 56 Old Church Street, Chelsea
102. JB Priestley lived here @ 27 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
103. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court
104. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London
105. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
106. Lawrence of Arabia's Land @ Pole Hill, Chingford
107. Don't be Daunted @ 83 Marylebone High Street
108. Regan once lived Here @ 9 Highbury Crescent
109. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
110. Daily News to Remember @ 1 Pennington Street

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