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. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
12. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
13. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
14. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
15. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
16. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
17. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
18. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
19. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
20. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
21. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
22. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
23. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
24. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
25. The Elephant and Castle Story @ Elephant and Castle, Southwark, London
26. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
27. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
28. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
29. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
30. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
31. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
32. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
33. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
34. Railway Children authors home @ Stratfield House, Baring Road, Lewisham, London
35. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
36. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
37. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
38. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
39. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
40. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
41. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
42. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
43. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
44. Home of poet Robert Browning @ 19 Warwick Crescent, Paddington, London
45. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
46. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
47. Goldsmith and Blackstone @ 2 Brick Court, Temple, London
48. 84 Charing Cross Road @ 84 Charing Cross Road, London
49. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
50. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
51. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
52. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
53. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
54. Mervyn Peake lived here @ 1 Drayton Gardens, London
55. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
56. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
57. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
58. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
59. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
60. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
61. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
62. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
63. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
64. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
65. Walter Pater lived here @ 12 Earls Terrace, Kensington
66. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
67. Bram Stoker's Heroic Deed @ 27 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
68. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
69. Home of Ian Fleming @ 22 Ebury Street, Westminster
70. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
71. Bram Stoker lived here @ 18 St Leonards Terrace, Chelsea
72. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
73. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
74. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
75. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
76. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
77. Jane Austen lived here @ 10 Henrietta Street, Westminster, London
78. Cash in the Wind @ The Bank Of England
79. CS Forester lived here @ 58 Underhill Road, East Dulwich
80. Daily News to Remember @ 1 Pennington Street
81. Creator of the A-Z born here @ 3 Court Lane Gardens, East Dulwich, London
82. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
83. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
84. The Holly Bush @ 22 Holly Mount, Hampstead
85. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
86. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
87. Karl Popper lived here @ 16 Burlington Rise, East Barnet, London
88. The Original Media Mogul: Elias @ 19-24 Floral Street, Covent Garden, London
89. Author JG Ballard lived here @ 36 Old Charlton Road, Shepperton
90. Drama here since 1948 @ Beech Walk, Crayford
91. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
92. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese @ 145 Fleet St
93. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Home @ 9 Bywater Street, Kensington, London
94. Enid Bagnold's Cow @ 29 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, London
95. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
96. The Albany, home to AJ Raffles @ Albany Court, St James, London
97. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
98. Dickens 1st Love lived here @ 1 Lombard Street, London
99. Victoria Tower @ Westminster
100. WT Stead lived here @ 5 Smith Square, Westminster, London
101. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
102. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
103. Ann Radcliffe lived here @ 7 Buckingham Gate, Pimlico
104. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
105. George Orwell's House @ Mortimer Crescent, Kilburn
106. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
107. Temple Church @ Temple, London
108. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
109. Author Laurence Sterne died here @ 41 Old Bond Street
110. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London










