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. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
12. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
13. Well Hall Pleasaunce @ Well Hall Road, Eltham
14. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
15. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
16. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
17. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
18. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
19. Jackie Collins Home @ Hamilton Terrace, Swiss Cottage
20. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
21. The London Library @ 14 St James' Square
22. Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd @ 3 St. James's Street, Lambeth
23. Peter the Great trashed here @ 146 Deptford High Street, London
24. The Albany, home to AJ Raffles @ Albany Court, St James, London
25. Ripping Yarns @ 355 Archway Road, Highgate
26. WH Smith lived here @ 12c Hyde Park Street, Bayswater
27. Home of poet Robert Browning @ 19 Warwick Crescent, Paddington, London
28. Clapham Junction & Oscar Wilde @ St John's Hill, Clapham
29. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
30. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
31. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
32. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
33. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
34. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
35. George Bernard Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
36. Cash in the Wind @ The Bank Of England
37. Anthony Trollope was born here @ 16 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London
38. John Buchan lived here @ 76 Portland Place, Marylebone, London
39. Gothic Author Riddell lived here @ East Gate Lodge, St Ann's Road, Tottenham
40. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
41. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
42. WT Stead lived here @ 5 Smith Square, Westminster, London
43. Rudyard Kipling lived here @ 43 Villiers Street, Westminster
44. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
45. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
46. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
47. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
48. 101 Dalmations author lived here @ 19 Dorset Square, Marylebone
49. Author Wilkie Collins lived here @ 90 Gloucester Place (now 65)
50. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station
51. Peter Cook's Baby Lives On @ 6 Carlisle Street
52. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
53. Allan Chappelow Murder @ 9 Downshire Hill, Hampstead
54. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
55. Lytton Strachey lived here @ 51 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
56. Time to get Trolleyed @ 73A Redchurch Street, Old Street
57. Goldsmith and Blackstone @ 2 Brick Court, Temple, London
58. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
59. Grub Street @ Milton Street, London
60. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
61. William Morris' Georgian Retreat @ 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
62. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
63. Home of Ian Fleming @ 22 Ebury Street, Westminster
64. Author Laurence Sterne died here @ 41 Old Bond Street
65. The Original Hatchard's @ 173 Piccadilly, London
66. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
67. Mervyn Peake lived here @ 1 Drayton Gardens, London
68. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
69. Roald Dahl's Studio @ 8 Turnchapel Mews, Clapham
70. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
71. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
72. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
73. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
74. The Greene Man @ 383 Euston Road, Marylebone
75. An Art & Print Treasure @ Bride Lane, Fleet Street
76. Famous Drinkers to die for @ 127 Gloucester Road, Kensington
77. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
78. Charing Cross Book Worms @ Charing Cross Road
79. The Elephant and Castle Story @ Elephant and Castle, Southwark, London
80. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
81. Don't be Daunted @ 83 Marylebone High Street
82. Barn Elms Kit Cat House @ Barn Elms, Putney, London
83. Bram Stoker's Heroic Deed @ 27 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
84. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
85. Bram Stoker's first London home @ 7 Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London
86. A Funny Man schooled here @ The Ride, Brentford
87. Jane Austen lived here @ 10 Henrietta Street, Westminster, London
88. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
89. Quercus - Publishing Revelation @ 21 Bloomsbury Square, Bloomsbury
90. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
91. Enid Bagnold's Cow @ 29 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, London
92. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
93. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
94. Samuel Beckett lived here @ 34 Gertrude Street, Chelsea
95. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
96. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
97. The Holly Bush @ 22 Holly Mount, Hampstead
98. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
99. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
100. A Monastery and a Bard @ Blackfriars
101. John Evelyn's House @ 14 Dover Street, Mayfair
102. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
103. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London
104. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
105. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
106. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
107. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
108. TS Eliot lived here @ 33 Courtfield Road, Kensington, London
109. Birthplace of Georgette Heyer @ 103 Woodside, Wimbledon
110. Author DH Lawrence lived here @ 32 Well Walk, Hampstead, London