Literary Top Literary-related places to visit in London.

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.

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11. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
12. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
13. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
14. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
15. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
16. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
17. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
18. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
19. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
20. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
21. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
22. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
23. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
24. The Wig and Pen Club @ 230 The Strand, Westminster, London
25. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
26. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
27. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
28. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
29. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
30. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
31. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
32. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
33. The Dove @ 19 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
34. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
35. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
36. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
37. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
38. Ann Radcliffe lived here @ 7 Buckingham Gate, Pimlico
39. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
40. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
41. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
42. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
43. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
44. The Real Scrooge lived here @ 18 Great Marlborough Street
45. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
46. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
47. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
48. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
49. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
50. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
51. Grub Street @ Milton Street, London
52. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
53. John Ruskin born here @ 54 Hunter Street, Holborn
54. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
55. Last Gay Bookshop @ 66 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
56. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
57. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
58. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
59. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
60. Novelist James Hilton lived here @ 42 Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green
61. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
62. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
63. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
64. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
65. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
66. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
67. Rights of Man written here @ The Old Red Lion, Islington, London
68. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
69. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
70. Bram Stoker's first London home @ 7 Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London
71. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
72. 2 Blokes, 1 Bookshop, No Idea @ Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green
73. Rupert Bear was created Here @ 58 Cranes Park
74. 84 Charing Cross Road @ 84 Charing Cross Road, London
75. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
76. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
77. James Bond's House @ Royal Avenue, Chelsea
78. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
79. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
80. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
81. The Greene Man @ 383 Euston Road, Marylebone
82. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
83. Author JG Ballard lived here @ 36 Old Charlton Road, Shepperton
84. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
85. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
86. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
87. Heath Robinson lived here @ Moy Lodge, 75 Moss Lane, Pinner, Harrow
88. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
89. Anthony Trollope was born here @ 16 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London
90. 101 Dalmations author lived here @ 19 Dorset Square, Marylebone
91. The New Clapham Library @ 91 Clapham High Street, Clapham
92. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
93. TS Eliot lived here @ 33 Courtfield Road, Kensington, London
94. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
95. Author DH Lawrence lived here @ 32 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
96. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
97. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
98. Jane Austen lived here @ 10 Henrietta Street, Westminster, London
99. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
100. William Morris' Red House @ Red House Lane
101. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
102. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
103. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
104. Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd @ 3 St. James's Street, Lambeth
105. Regan once lived Here @ 9 Highbury Crescent
106. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
107. The Old Nicholl @ Arnold Circus, Tower Hamlets, London
108. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
109. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
110. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls