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. The Elephant and Castle Story @ Elephant and Castle, Southwark, London
12. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
13. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
14. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
15. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
16. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
17. Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd @ 3 St. James's Street, Lambeth
18. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
19. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
20. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
21. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
22. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
23. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
24. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
25. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
26. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
27. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
28. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
29. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
30. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
31. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
32. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
33. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
34. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
35. Woolf and Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
36. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
37. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
38. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
39. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
40. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
41. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
42. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
43. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
44. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
45. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
46. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
47. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
48. Canada Water Super-Library @ 21 Surrey Quays Road, Rotherhithe
49. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
50. Barn Elms Kit Cat House @ Barn Elms, Putney, London
51. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
52. Samuel Beckett lived here @ 34 Gertrude Street, Chelsea
53. The Holly Bush @ 22 Holly Mount, Hampstead
54. William Morris' Georgian Retreat @ 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
55. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
56. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
57. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
58. Canonbury Towers @ Canonbury Place, Islington
59. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
60. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
61. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
62. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
63. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
64. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
65. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
66. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
67. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
68. 101 Dalmations author lived here @ 19 Dorset Square, Marylebone
69. Creator of the A-Z born here @ 3 Court Lane Gardens, East Dulwich, London
70. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
71. Doves Bindery and Press @ 15 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
72. St George the Martyr and Dickens @ Borough High Street, Southwark, London
73. Temple Church @ Temple, London
74. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
75. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
76. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
77. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
78. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
79. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
80. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
81. Well Hall Pleasaunce @ Well Hall Road, Eltham
82. Regan once lived Here @ 9 Highbury Crescent
83. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
84. John Ruskin born here @ 54 Hunter Street, Holborn
85. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
86. JB Priestley lived here @ 27 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
87. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
88. Legend of Fu Manchu @ Gill Street, Limehouse, London
89. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
90. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
91. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
92. The Wheatsheaf @ 25 Rathbone Place
93. Ripping Yarns @ 355 Archway Road, Highgate
94. Quercus - Publishing Revelation @ 21 Bloomsbury Square, Bloomsbury
95. Siegfried Sassoon lived here @ 23 Campden Hill Square
96. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
97. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
98. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
99. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
100. Cliveden and the Profumo Affair @ Taplow, Maidenhead
101. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
102. Ann Radcliffe lived here @ 7 Buckingham Gate, Pimlico
103. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
104. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
105. Mrs Beeton was born here @ 24 Milk Street, Cheapside, London
106. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
107. The Original Hatchard's @ 173 Piccadilly, London
108. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
109. James Bond's House @ Royal Avenue, Chelsea
110. WH Smith lived here @ 12c Hyde Park Street, Bayswater