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. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
12. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
13. Peter the Great trashed here @ 146 Deptford High Street, London
14. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
15. Anthony Hopkins Odd Coincidence @ Leicester Square Tube station, London
16. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
17. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
18. Grub Street @ Milton Street, London
19. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
20. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
21. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
22. Rights of Man written here @ The Old Red Lion, Islington, London
23. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
24. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
25. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
26. William Morris' Georgian Retreat @ 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
27. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
28. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
29. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
30. The Original Hatchard's @ 173 Piccadilly, London
31. The Wheatsheaf @ 25 Rathbone Place
32. Well Read in the North @ 218 Eversholt Street
33. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
34. A Funny Man schooled here @ The Ride, Brentford
35. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
36. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
37. Strawberry Hill House @ 268 Waldegrave Road, Twickenham
38. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
39. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
40. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
41. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
42. Cliveden and the Profumo Affair @ Taplow, Maidenhead
43. The Wig and Pen Club @ 230 The Strand, Westminster, London
44. Author Laurence Sterne died here @ 41 Old Bond Street
45. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
46. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
47. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
48. Creator of the A-Z born here @ 3 Court Lane Gardens, East Dulwich, London
49. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
50. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
51. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
52. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
53. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
54. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
55. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
56. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
57. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
58. Siegfried Sassoon lived here @ 23 Campden Hill Square
59. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
60. Author Wilkie Collins lived here @ 90 Gloucester Place (now 65)
61. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
62. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
63. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
64. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
65. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
66. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
67. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
68. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
69. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
70. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
71. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
72. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
73. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
74. John Ruskin born here @ 54 Hunter Street, Holborn
75. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
76. Don't be Daunted @ 83 Marylebone High Street
77. 84 Charing Cross Road @ 84 Charing Cross Road, London
78. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
79. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
80. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
81. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
82. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
83. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Home @ 9 Bywater Street, Kensington, London
84. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
85. JG Ballard's Millenium People @ Chelsea Marina Harbour, Fulham, London
86. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
87. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
88. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
89. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
90. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
91. Sir Clement the Great @ Boundary Road, St John's Wood
92. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
93. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
94. Architect Pevsner lived here @ 2 Wildwood Terrace, Hampstead, London
95. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
96. Chelsea's Anglesea Arms @ 15 Selwood Terrace, Chelsea
97. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
98. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
99. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
100. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
101. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
102. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
103. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station
104. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
105. Gordons... Wine Specialist @ 47 Villiers Street
106. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
107. Charles Kingsley lived here @ 56 Old Church Street, Chelsea
108. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
109. Sir John Betjeman @ 31 Highgate West Hill, Highgate, Highgate
110. Birthplace of the Pre-Raphaelite @ Cavendish College