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. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
13. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
14. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
15. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
16. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
17. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
18. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
19. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
20. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
21. Bram Stoker lived here @ 18 St Leonards Terrace, Chelsea
22. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
23. Clapham Junction & Oscar Wilde @ St John's Hill, Clapham
24. William Morris' Red House @ Red House Lane
25. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
26. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
27. The Riceyman Steps @ To Granville Place, London
28. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
29. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
30. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
31. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
32. Time to get Trolleyed @ 73A Redchurch Street, Old Street
33. Gordons... Wine Specialist @ 47 Villiers Street
34. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
35. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
36. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
37. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
38. Ann Radcliffe lived here @ 7 Buckingham Gate, Pimlico
39. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
40. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
41. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
42. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
43. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
44. Allan Chappelow Murder @ 9 Downshire Hill, Hampstead
45. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
46. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
47. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
48. Enid Bagnold's Cow @ 29 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, London
49. Daphne du Maurier lived here @ Cannon Cottage, Well Road, Hampstead
50. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
51. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
52. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
53. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
54. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
55. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
56. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
57. Samuel Pepys birthplace @ Salisbury Court, Fleet Street
58. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
59. Legend of Fu Manchu @ Gill Street, Limehouse, London
60. Author DH Lawrence lived here @ 32 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
61. Novelist James Hilton lived here @ 42 Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green
62. Charles Dickens 'Oliver Twist' @ 22 Cleveland Street
63. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
64. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
65. 101 Dalmations author lived here @ 19 Dorset Square, Marylebone
66. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
67. Well Hall Pleasaunce @ Well Hall Road, Eltham
68. HG Wells was born here @ Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley
69. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
70. Agatha Christie's First Home @ 47-48 Campden Street, Kensington
71. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
72. Punch Tavern @ 95 Fleet Street
73. JG Ballard's Millenium People @ Chelsea Marina Harbour, Fulham, London
74. Regan once lived Here @ 9 Highbury Crescent
75. 84 Charing Cross Road @ 84 Charing Cross Road, London
76. Goldsmith and Blackstone @ 2 Brick Court, Temple, London
77. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
78. Home to the Daily Courant @ Fleet Street
79. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
80. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
81. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
82. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
83. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
84. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
85. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
86. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station
87. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
88. Well Read in the North @ 218 Eversholt Street
89. Mrs Beeton was born here @ 24 Milk Street, Cheapside, London
90. The Wind in Holland Park @ 16 Phillimore Place, Holland Park
91. Dylan Thomas' House of Horror @ 54 Delancey Street, Camden
92. Rupert Bear was created Here @ 58 Cranes Park
93. A Monastery and a Bard @ Blackfriars
94. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
95. Sir Clement the Great @ Boundary Road, St John's Wood
96. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
97. Mark Twain's death @ 23 Tedworth Square, Chelsea, London
98. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
99. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
100. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
101. George Bernard Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
102. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
103. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
104. The Dove @ 19 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
105. Siegfried Sassoon lived here @ 23 Campden Hill Square
106. John Ruskin born here @ 54 Hunter Street, Holborn
107. Don't be Daunted @ 83 Marylebone High Street
108. TS Eliot lived here @ 33 Courtfield Road, Kensington, London
109. Dickens 1st Love lived here @ 1 Lombard Street, London
110. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green