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 Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
12. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
13. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
14. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
15. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
16. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
17. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
18. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
19. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
20. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
21. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
22. A meeting of Literary Minds @ 87-89 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
23. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
24. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
25. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
26. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
27. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
28. Barn Elms Kit Cat House @ Barn Elms, Putney, London
29. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
30. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
31. Woolf and Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
32. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
33. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
34. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
35. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
36. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
37. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
38. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station
39. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
40. Non-Roman Bath @ 5 Strand Lane, London
41. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
42. Victoria Tower @ Westminster
43. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
44. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
45. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
46. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
47. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
48. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
49. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
50. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
51. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
52. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
53. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
54. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
55. Free Learning for All @ Barnard's Inn Hall
56. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
57. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
58. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese @ 145 Fleet St
59. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
60. Home of poet Robert Browning @ 19 Warwick Crescent, Paddington, London
61. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
62. Canonbury Towers @ Canonbury Place, Islington
63. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
64. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
65. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
66. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
67. The Holly Bush @ 22 Holly Mount, Hampstead
68. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
69. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
70. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
71. A Funny Man schooled here @ The Ride, Brentford
72. Samuel Beckett lived here @ 34 Gertrude Street, Chelsea
73. Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd @ 3 St. James's Street, Lambeth
74. Novelist James Hilton lived here @ 42 Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green
75. Sir Clement the Great @ Boundary Road, St John's Wood
76. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
77. Author Joseph Conrad lived here @ 17 Gillingham Street, Westminster, London
78. An Art & Print Treasure @ Bride Lane, Fleet Street
79. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
80. 84 Charing Cross Road @ 84 Charing Cross Road, London
81. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
82. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
83. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
84. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
85. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
86. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
87. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
88. Sherlock Holmes Remembered @ Baker Street Tube Station
89. The Original Hatchard's @ 173 Piccadilly, London
90. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
91. HG Wells was born here @ Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley
92. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
93. WT Stead lived here @ 5 Smith Square, Westminster, London
94. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
95. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
96. James Bond's House @ Royal Avenue, Chelsea
97. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court
98. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
99. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
100. Railway Children authors home @ Stratfield House, Baring Road, Lewisham, London
101. Well Hall Pleasaunce @ Well Hall Road, Eltham
102. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
103. Goldsmith and Blackstone @ 2 Brick Court, Temple, London
104. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
105. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
106. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
107. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
108. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
109. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
110. The First ever London Theatre @ 86-88 Curtain Road