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.

The Top 10 LITERARY-related places in London:

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11. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
12. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
13. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
14. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
15. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
16. Famous Drinkers to die for @ 127 Gloucester Road, Kensington
17. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
18. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
19. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
20. Free Learning for All @ Barnard's Inn Hall
21. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
22. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
23. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
24. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
25. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
26. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
27. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
28. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
29. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
30. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
31. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
32. Legend of Fu Manchu @ Gill Street, Limehouse, London
33. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
34. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
35. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
36. Rupert Bear was created Here @ 58 Cranes Park
37. Anthony Hopkins Odd Coincidence @ Leicester Square Tube station, London
38. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
39. Clapham Junction & Oscar Wilde @ St John's Hill, Clapham
40. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
41. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
42. James Bond's House @ Royal Avenue, Chelsea
43. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
44. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
45. Author JG Ballard lived here @ 36 Old Charlton Road, Shepperton
46. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
47. William Morris' Red House @ Red House Lane
48. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
49. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
50. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
51. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
52. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
53. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
54. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
55. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
56. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
57. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
58. Time to get Trolleyed @ 73A Redchurch Street, Old Street
59. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
60. John Evelyn's House @ 14 Dover Street, Mayfair
61. Allan Chappelow Murder @ 9 Downshire Hill, Hampstead
62. Bram Stoker's first London home @ 7 Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London
63. William Morris' Georgian Retreat @ 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
64. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
65. Author Arnold Bennett lived here @ 75 Cadogan Square, Knightsbridge, London
66. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
67. Home of Angela Carter @ 107 The Chase, Clapham
68. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
69. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
70. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
71. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
72. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
73. HG Wells was born here @ Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley
74. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
75. Roald Dahl's Studio @ 8 Turnchapel Mews, Clapham
76. Gordons... Wine Specialist @ 47 Villiers Street
77. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
78. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
79. A Funny Man schooled here @ The Ride, Brentford
80. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
81. Daphne du Maurier lived here @ Cannon Cottage, Well Road, Hampstead
82. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
83. Canonbury Towers @ Canonbury Place, Islington
84. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
85. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
86. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
87. Samuel Pepys birthplace @ Salisbury Court, Fleet Street
88. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
89. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
90. The Holly Bush @ 22 Holly Mount, Hampstead
91. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
92. Heath Robinson lived here @ Moy Lodge, 75 Moss Lane, Pinner, Harrow
93. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
94. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
95. World's Biggest Plum Pudding! @ 17 Easycheap, London
96. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
97. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
98. WH Smith lived here @ 12c Hyde Park Street, Bayswater
99. Highgate Hill's Memorial Story @ Highgate Hill
100. Home of poet Robert Browning @ 19 Warwick Crescent, Paddington, London
101. James Joyce lived here @ 28b Campden Grove, Kensington, London
102. John Ruskin born here @ 54 Hunter Street, Holborn
103. Writer Haggard lived here @ 69 Gunterstone Road, Hammersmith
104. Author Nevil Shute born here @ 16 Somerset Road, West Ealing
105. Sherlock Holmes Remembered @ Baker Street Tube Station
106. Mrs Beeton was born here @ 24 Milk Street, Cheapside, London
107. Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd @ 3 St. James's Street, Lambeth
108. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
109. Bram Stoker lived here @ 18 St Leonards Terrace, Chelsea
110. Birthplace of the Pre-Raphaelite @ Cavendish College