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. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
12. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
13. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
14. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
15. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
16. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
17. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
18. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
19. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
20. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
21. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
22. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
23. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
24. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
25. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
26. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
27. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
28. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
29. Clapham Junction & Oscar Wilde @ St John's Hill, Clapham
30. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
31. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
32. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
33. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
34. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
35. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
36. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
37. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
38. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
39. The London Library @ 14 St James' Square
40. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
41. The Greene Man @ 383 Euston Road, Marylebone
42. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
43. TS Eliot lived here @ 33 Courtfield Road, Kensington, London
44. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
45. Karl Popper lived here @ 16 Burlington Rise, East Barnet, London
46. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
47. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
48. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
49. HG Wells was born here @ Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley
50. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
51. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
52. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
53. Canonbury Towers @ Canonbury Place, Islington
54. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
55. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
56. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
57. Novelist James Hilton lived here @ 42 Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green
58. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
59. John Evelyn's House @ 14 Dover Street, Mayfair
60. Mrs Beeton was born here @ 24 Milk Street, Cheapside, London
61. The Riceyman Steps @ To Granville Place, London
62. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
63. Jackie Collins Home @ Hamilton Terrace, Swiss Cottage
64. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
65. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
66. Punch Tavern @ 95 Fleet Street
67. William Morris' Georgian Retreat @ 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
68. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
69. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
70. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
71. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
72. Author DH Lawrence lived here @ 32 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
73. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
74. 84 Charing Cross Road @ 84 Charing Cross Road, London
75. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
76. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
77. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
78. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
79. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Home @ 9 Bywater Street, Kensington, London
80. Chelsea's Anglesea Arms @ 15 Selwood Terrace, Chelsea
81. Gordons... Wine Specialist @ 47 Villiers Street
82. Walter Pater lived here @ 12 Earls Terrace, Kensington
83. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
84. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
85. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
86. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
87. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
88. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
89. Jane Austen lived here @ 10 Henrietta Street, Westminster, London
90. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
91. Lawrence of Arabia's Land @ Pole Hill, Chingford
92. Rights of Man written here @ The Old Red Lion, Islington, London
93. Legend of Fu Manchu @ Gill Street, Limehouse, London
94. Dickens 1st Love lived here @ 1 Lombard Street, London
95. A Funny Man schooled here @ The Ride, Brentford
96. Daphne du Maurier lived here @ Cannon Cottage, Well Road, Hampstead
97. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
98. The Real Scrooge lived here @ 18 Great Marlborough Street
99. Daily News to Remember @ 1 Pennington Street
100. William Morris' Red House @ Red House Lane
101. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
102. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
103. George Orwell's House @ Mortimer Crescent, Kilburn
104. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
105. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
106. Anthony Trollope was born here @ 16 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London
107. Don't be Daunted @ 83 Marylebone High Street
108. The Albany, home to AJ Raffles @ Albany Court, St James, London
109. CS Forester lived here @ 58 Underhill Road, East Dulwich
110. Agatha Christie's First Home @ 47-48 Campden Street, Kensington