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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. The Famous Berners Street Hoax	3. Tragic house of Karl Marx	4. The Red Lion of Soho	5. The worst street in London
6. The Fitzroy Tavern	7. Edgar Allen Poe lived here	8. Oscar Wilde Statue	9. Rimbaud and Verlaines House	10. London's Longest Pub?

MORE LITERARY SIGHTS:

11. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
12. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
13. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
14. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
15. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
16. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
17. Anthony Hopkins Odd Coincidence @ Leicester Square Tube station, London
18. The Wheatsheaf @ 25 Rathbone Place
19. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
20. Bram Stoker's first London home @ 7 Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London
21. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
22. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
23. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
24. Bram Stoker lived here @ 18 St Leonards Terrace, Chelsea
25. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
26. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
27. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
28. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
29. Non-Roman Bath @ 5 Strand Lane, London
30. James Bond's House @ Royal Avenue, Chelsea
31. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
32. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
33. The First ever London Theatre @ 86-88 Curtain Road
34. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
35. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
36. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
37. Peter the Great trashed here @ 146 Deptford High Street, London
38. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
39. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
40. JB Priestley lived here @ 27 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
41. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
42. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
43. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
44. Last Gay Bookshop @ 66 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
45. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
46. Novelist James Hilton lived here @ 42 Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green
47. Goldsmith and Blackstone @ 2 Brick Court, Temple, London
48. The Old Nicholl @ Arnold Circus, Tower Hamlets, London
49. Cliveden and the Profumo Affair @ Taplow, Maidenhead
50. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
51. Samuel Beckett lived here @ 34 Gertrude Street, Chelsea
52. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
53. Rights of Man written here @ The Old Red Lion, Islington, London
54. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
55. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
56. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
57. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
58. Canonbury Towers @ Canonbury Place, Islington
59. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
60. World's Biggest Plum Pudding! @ 17 Easycheap, London
61. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
62. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
63. Radical booksellers since 1945 @ 5 Caledonian Road
64. George Orwell Lived here @ 27b Canonbury Square, Islington
65. Home to the Daily Courant @ Fleet Street
66. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
67. HG Wells lived here @ 13 Hanover Terrace, Green Park, London
68. A Fitzroy Blue Plaque @ 29 Fitzroy Square
69. Sherlock Holmes Remembered @ Baker Street Tube Station
70. Charles Dickens 'Oliver Twist' @ 22 Cleveland Street
71. Chelsea's Anglesea Arms @ 15 Selwood Terrace, Chelsea
72. Daniel Defoe lived here @ 95 Stoke Newington Church Street, London
73. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
74. Railway Children authors home @ Stratfield House, Baring Road, Lewisham, London
75. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
76. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
77. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
78. Ripping Yarns @ 355 Archway Road, Highgate
79. Birthplace of the Pre-Raphaelite @ Cavendish College
80. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
81. Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd @ 3 St. James's Street, Lambeth
82. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
83. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
84. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London
85. Daily News to Remember @ 1 Pennington Street
86. Bram Stoker's Heroic Deed @ 27 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
87. The Wig and Pen Club @ 230 The Strand, Westminster, London
88. William Morris' Red House @ Red House Lane
89. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
90. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
91. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
92. James Joyce lived here @ 28b Campden Grove, Kensington, London
93. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
94. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
95. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
96. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
97. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
98. Barn Elms Kit Cat House @ Barn Elms, Putney, London
99. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
100. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
101. Highgate Hill's Memorial Story @ Highgate Hill
102. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
103. Peter Cook's Baby Lives On @ 6 Carlisle Street
104. An Art & Print Treasure @ Bride Lane, Fleet Street
105. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
106. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
107. Mark Twain's death @ 23 Tedworth Square, Chelsea, London
108. WT Stead lived here @ 5 Smith Square, Westminster, London
109. A meeting of Literary Minds @ 87-89 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
110. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow

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