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 Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
12. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
13. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
14. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
15. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
16. 101 Dalmations author lived here @ 19 Dorset Square, Marylebone
17. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
18. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
19. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
20. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
21. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
22. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
23. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
24. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
25. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
26. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
27. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court
28. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
29. Novelist James Hilton lived here @ 42 Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green
30. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
31. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station
32. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
33. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
34. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
35. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
36. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
37. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
38. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
39. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
40. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
41. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
42. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
43. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
44. Well Read in the North @ 218 Eversholt Street
45. Ann Radcliffe lived here @ 7 Buckingham Gate, Pimlico
46. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
47. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
48. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
49. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
50. Victoria Tower @ Westminster
51. WH Smith lived here @ 12c Hyde Park Street, Bayswater
52. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
53. Keats House @ Keats Grove, Hampstead, London
54. George Orwell's House @ Mortimer Crescent, Kilburn
55. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
56. William Morris' Red House @ Red House Lane
57. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
58. HG Wells lived here @ 13 Hanover Terrace, Green Park, London
59. Rupert Bear was created Here @ 58 Cranes Park
60. Author Laurence Sterne died here @ 41 Old Bond Street
61. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
62. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
63. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
64. The Original Hatchard's @ 173 Piccadilly, London
65. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
66. James Joyce lived here @ 28b Campden Grove, Kensington, London
67. JB Priestley lived here @ 27 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
68. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
69. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
70. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
71. World's Biggest Plum Pudding! @ 17 Easycheap, London
72. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
73. Karl Popper lived here @ 16 Burlington Rise, East Barnet, London
74. Author Wilkie Collins lived here @ 90 Gloucester Place (now 65)
75. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
76. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
77. Clapham Junction & Oscar Wilde @ St John's Hill, Clapham
78. The Albany, home to AJ Raffles @ Albany Court, St James, London
79. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
80. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
81. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
82. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
83. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
84. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
85. Dickens 1st Love lived here @ 1 Lombard Street, London
86. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
87. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
88. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
89. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
90. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
91. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
92. George Bernard Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
93. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
94. Rights of Man written here @ The Old Red Lion, Islington, London
95. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
96. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
97. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, 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 Real Scrooge lived here @ 18 Great Marlborough Street
101. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
102. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
103. Heath Robinson lived here @ Moy Lodge, 75 Moss Lane, Pinner, Harrow
104. Cliveden and the Profumo Affair @ Taplow, Maidenhead
105. The First ever London Theatre @ 86-88 Curtain Road
106. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
107. Bram Stoker lived here @ 18 St Leonards Terrace, Chelsea
108. Creator of the A-Z born here @ 3 Court Lane Gardens, East Dulwich, London
109. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
110. Architect Pevsner lived here @ 2 Wildwood Terrace, Hampstead, London