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. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
12. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
13. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
14. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
15. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
16. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
17. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
18. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
19. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
20. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
21. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
22. Peter Cook's Baby Lives On @ 6 Carlisle Street
23. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
24. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
25. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
26. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
27. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
28. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
29. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
30. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
31. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
32. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
33. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
34. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
35. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
36. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
37. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
38. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
39. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
40. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
41. Clapham Junction & Oscar Wilde @ St John's Hill, Clapham
42. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
43. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
44. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
45. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
46. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
47. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
48. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
49. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
50. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
51. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
52. George Bernard Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
53. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
54. WT Stead lived here @ 5 Smith Square, Westminster, London
55. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
56. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
57. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
58. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
59. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
60. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
61. Bram Stoker lived here @ 18 St Leonards Terrace, Chelsea
62. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
63. Famous Drinkers to die for @ 127 Gloucester Road, Kensington
64. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
65. Don't be Daunted @ 83 Marylebone High Street
66. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
67. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station
68. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
69. Legend of Fu Manchu @ Gill Street, Limehouse, London
70. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
71. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
72. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
73. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
74. Karl Popper lived here @ 16 Burlington Rise, East Barnet, London
75. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
76. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
77. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
78. Bram Stoker's Heroic Deed @ 27 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
79. Last Gay Bookshop @ 66 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
80. Dickens 1st Love lived here @ 1 Lombard Street, London
81. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
82. Keats House @ Keats Grove, Hampstead, London
83. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
84. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
85. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
86. The Real Scrooge lived here @ 18 Great Marlborough Street
87. Author Laurence Sterne died here @ 41 Old Bond Street
88. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
89. Anthony Trollope was born here @ 16 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London
90. Mrs Beeton was born here @ 24 Milk Street, Cheapside, London
91. The Albany, home to AJ Raffles @ Albany Court, St James, London
92. Goldsmith and Blackstone @ 2 Brick Court, Temple, London
93. Temple Church @ Temple, London
94. The Original Media Mogul: Elias @ 19-24 Floral Street, Covent Garden, London
95. Free Learning for All @ Barnard's Inn Hall
96. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
97. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
98. Bram Stoker's first London home @ 7 Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London
99. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
100. Writer Haggard lived here @ 69 Gunterstone Road, Hammersmith
101. JG Ballard's Millenium People @ Chelsea Marina Harbour, Fulham, London
102. A Monastery and a Bard @ Blackfriars
103. Chelsea's Anglesea Arms @ 15 Selwood Terrace, Chelsea
104. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
105. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
106. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
107. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
108. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
109. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
110. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London