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. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
12. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
13. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
14. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
15. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
16. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
17. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
18. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
19. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
20. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
21. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
22. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
23. John Evelyn's House @ 14 Dover Street, Mayfair
24. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
25. HG Wells was born here @ Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley
26. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
27. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
28. Bram Stoker's Heroic Deed @ 27 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
29. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
30. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
31. Canonbury Towers @ Canonbury Place, Islington
32. Clapham Junction & Oscar Wilde @ St John's Hill, Clapham
33. Daphne du Maurier lived here @ Cannon Cottage, Well Road, Hampstead
34. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
35. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
36. Rights of Man written here @ The Old Red Lion, Islington, London
37. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
38. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
39. Author DH Lawrence lived here @ 32 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
40. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
41. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
42. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
43. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
44. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
45. Temple Church @ Temple, London
46. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
47. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
48. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
49. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
50. Barn Elms Kit Cat House @ Barn Elms, Putney, London
51. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
52. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
53. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
54. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
55. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
56. Mrs Beeton was born here @ 24 Milk Street, Cheapside, London
57. Walter Pater lived here @ 12 Earls Terrace, Kensington
58. John Ruskin born here @ 54 Hunter Street, Holborn
59. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
60. St George the Martyr and Dickens @ Borough High Street, Southwark, London
61. Mark Twain's death @ 23 Tedworth Square, Chelsea, London
62. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
63. JG Ballard's Millenium People @ Chelsea Marina Harbour, Fulham, London
64. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
65. Punch Tavern @ 95 Fleet Street
66. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
67. The Greene Man @ 383 Euston Road, Marylebone
68. Author Nevil Shute born here @ 16 Somerset Road, West Ealing
69. Legend of Fu Manchu @ Gill Street, Limehouse, London
70. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
71. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
72. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
73. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
74. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
75. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
76. Sherlock Holmes Remembered @ Baker Street Tube Station
77. William Morris' Georgian Retreat @ 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
78. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
79. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
80. The Albany, home to AJ Raffles @ Albany Court, St James, London
81. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
82. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
83. Peter Cook's Baby Lives On @ 6 Carlisle Street
84. James Bond's House @ Royal Avenue, Chelsea
85. TS Eliot lived here @ 33 Courtfield Road, Kensington, London
86. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
87. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
88. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
89. William Morris' Red House @ Red House Lane
90. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
91. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
92. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
93. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
94. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
95. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
96. Jackie Collins Home @ Hamilton Terrace, Swiss Cottage
97. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
98. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
99. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
100. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
101. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
102. 2 Blokes, 1 Bookshop, No Idea @ Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green
103. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
104. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
105. A.C. Doyle The Eye Specialist @ 2 Devonshire Place
106. 101 Dalmations author lived here @ 19 Dorset Square, Marylebone
107. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
108. Strawberry Hill House @ 268 Waldegrave Road, Twickenham
109. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
110. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London