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. Victoria Tower @ Westminster
12. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
13. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
14. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
15. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
16. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
17. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
18. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
19. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
20. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
21. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
22. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
23. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
24. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
25. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
26. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
27. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
28. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
29. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
30. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
31. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
32. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
33. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
34. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
35. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
36. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
37. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
38. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
39. 84 Charing Cross Road @ 84 Charing Cross Road, London
40. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
41. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
42. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
43. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
44. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
45. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
46. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
47. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
48. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
49. The Dove @ 19 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
50. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
51. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
52. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
53. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
54. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
55. John Ruskin born here @ 54 Hunter Street, Holborn
56. The Real Scrooge lived here @ 18 Great Marlborough Street
57. Ann Radcliffe lived here @ 7 Buckingham Gate, Pimlico
58. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
59. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
60. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
61. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
62. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
63. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
64. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
65. Grub Street @ Milton Street, London
66. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
67. William Morris' Red House @ Red House Lane
68. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
69. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
70. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
71. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
72. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
73. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
74. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
75. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
76. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
77. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
78. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
79. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
80. 2 Blokes, 1 Bookshop, No Idea @ Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green
81. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
82. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
83. Home of Ian Fleming @ 22 Ebury Street, Westminster
84. An Art & Print Treasure @ Bride Lane, Fleet Street
85. Bram Stoker's first London home @ 7 Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London
86. Heath Robinson lived here @ Moy Lodge, 75 Moss Lane, Pinner, Harrow
87. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
88. James Bond's House @ Royal Avenue, Chelsea
89. Author JG Ballard lived here @ 36 Old Charlton Road, Shepperton
90. James Joyce lived here @ 28b Campden Grove, Kensington, London
91. Novelist James Hilton lived here @ 42 Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green
92. Sir Clement the Great @ Boundary Road, St John's Wood
93. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
94. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
95. A Funny Man schooled here @ The Ride, Brentford
96. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
97. Last Gay Bookshop @ 66 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
98. Agatha Christie's First Home @ 47-48 Campden Street, Kensington
99. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
100. The New Clapham Library @ 91 Clapham High Street, Clapham
101. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
102. Mrs Beeton was born here @ 24 Milk Street, Cheapside, London
103. Writer Bret Harte lived here @ 74 Lancaster Gate, London
104. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
105. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
106. Temple Church @ Temple, London
107. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
108. Rupert Bear was created Here @ 58 Cranes Park
109. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
110. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green