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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. Orwell's Booklovers Corner	9. Mary Poppins author lived here	10. Oscar Wilde Statue

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

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