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 Wig and Pen Club @ 230 The Strand, Westminster, London
12. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
13. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
14. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
15. The Elephant and Castle Story @ Elephant and Castle, Southwark, London
16. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
17. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
18. John Evelyn's House @ 14 Dover Street, Mayfair
19. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
20. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
21. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
22. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
23. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
24. George Orwell's House @ Mortimer Crescent, Kilburn
25. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
26. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
27. George Orwell Lived here @ 27b Canonbury Square, Islington
28. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
29. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
30. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
31. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
32. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
33. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
34. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
35. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
36. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
37. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
38. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
39. 101 Dalmations author lived here @ 19 Dorset Square, Marylebone
40. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
41. Ripping Yarns @ 355 Archway Road, Highgate
42. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
43. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
44. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
45. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
46. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
47. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
48. Walter Pater lived here @ 12 Earls Terrace, Kensington
49. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
50. James Joyce lived here @ 28b Campden Grove, Kensington, London
51. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
52. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
53. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
54. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
55. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
56. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
57. The First ever London Theatre @ 86-88 Curtain Road
58. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
59. Author Laurence Sterne died here @ 41 Old Bond Street
60. Samuel Pepys birthplace @ Salisbury Court, Fleet Street
61. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
62. Victoria Tower @ Westminster
63. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
64. Canonbury Towers @ Canonbury Place, Islington
65. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese @ 145 Fleet St
66. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
67. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
68. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
69. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
70. Free Learning for All @ Barnard's Inn Hall
71. Last Gay Bookshop @ 66 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
72. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
73. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
74. The Dove @ 19 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
75. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
76. The Albany, home to AJ Raffles @ Albany Court, St James, London
77. JB Priestley lived here @ 27 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
78. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
79. Birthplace of GK Chesterton @ 32 Sheffield Terrace, Campden Hill
80. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
81. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
82. Author JG Ballard lived here @ 36 Old Charlton Road, Shepperton
83. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
84. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
85. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
86. Karl Popper lived here @ 16 Burlington Rise, East Barnet, London
87. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
88. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
89. Novelist James Hilton lived here @ 42 Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green
90. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
91. JG Ballard's Millenium People @ Chelsea Marina Harbour, Fulham, London
92. Rupert Bear was created Here @ 58 Cranes Park
93. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
94. The Holly Bush @ 22 Holly Mount, Hampstead
95. Charles Lamb lived here @ 20 Russell Street, Covent Garden
96. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
97. A Funny Man schooled here @ The Ride, Brentford
98. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
99. Sir John Betjeman @ 31 Highgate West Hill, Highgate, Highgate
100. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
101. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
102. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
103. Bram Stoker's Heroic Deed @ 27 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
104. Bram Stoker lived here @ 18 St Leonards Terrace, Chelsea
105. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
106. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
107. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court
108. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
109. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
110. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London