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. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
12. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
13. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
14. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
15. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
16. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
17. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
18. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
19. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
20. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
21. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
22. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
23. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
24. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
25. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
26. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
27. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
28. Famous Drinkers to die for @ 127 Gloucester Road, Kensington
29. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
30. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
31. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
32. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
33. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
34. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
35. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
36. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
37. Frankenstein author born here @ Polygon Road, Euston
38. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
39. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
40. The Greene Man @ 383 Euston Road, Marylebone
41. Peter Cook's Baby Lives On @ 6 Carlisle Street
42. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
43. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
44. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
45. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
46. The Wheatsheaf @ 25 Rathbone Place
47. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
48. Legend of Fu Manchu @ Gill Street, Limehouse, London
49. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
50. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
51. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
52. Home to Three Men in a Boat @ 91-104 Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea Bridge Road
53. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
54. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
55. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
56. Gothic Author Riddell lived here @ East Gate Lodge, St Ann's Road, Tottenham
57. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
58. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
59. Daphne du Maurier lived here @ Cannon Cottage, Well Road, Hampstead
60. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
61. Author JG Ballard lived here @ 36 Old Charlton Road, Shepperton
62. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
63. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
64. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
65. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
66. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
67. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
68. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
69. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
70. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
71. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
72. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
73. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
74. Bram Stoker's first London home @ 7 Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London
75. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
76. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
77. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
78. John Evelyn's House @ 14 Dover Street, Mayfair
79. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
80. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
81. The Original Media Mogul: Elias @ 19-24 Floral Street, Covent Garden, London
82. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
83. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court
84. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
85. WH Smith lived here @ 12c Hyde Park Street, Bayswater
86. The Real Scrooge lived here @ 18 Great Marlborough Street
87. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
88. Mark Twain's death @ 23 Tedworth Square, Chelsea, London
89. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
90. Allan Chappelow Murder @ 9 Downshire Hill, Hampstead
91. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
92. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
93. Doves Bindery and Press @ 15 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
94. Birthplace of the Pre-Raphaelite @ Cavendish College
95. Ripping Yarns @ 355 Archway Road, Highgate
96. An Art & Print Treasure @ Bride Lane, Fleet Street
97. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station
98. 2 Blokes, 1 Bookshop, No Idea @ Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green
99. Goldsmith and Blackstone @ 2 Brick Court, Temple, London
100. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
101. A meeting of Literary Minds @ 87-89 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
102. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Home @ 9 Bywater Street, Kensington, London
103. Well Hall Pleasaunce @ Well Hall Road, Eltham
104. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
105. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
106. Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd @ 3 St. James's Street, Lambeth
107. Lawrence of Arabia's Land @ Pole Hill, Chingford
108. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
109. World's Biggest Plum Pudding! @ 17 Easycheap, London
110. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London