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. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
12. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
13. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
14. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
15. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
16. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
17. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
18. The Wig and Pen Club @ 230 The Strand, Westminster, London
19. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
20. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
21. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
22. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
23. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
24. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
25. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
26. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
27. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
28. The Holly Bush @ 22 Holly Mount, Hampstead
29. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
30. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
31. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
32. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
33. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
34. Sir Clement the Great @ Boundary Road, St John's Wood
35. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station
36. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
37. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
38. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
39. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
40. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
41. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
42. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
43. Cliveden and the Profumo Affair @ Taplow, Maidenhead
44. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
45. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
46. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
47. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
48. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
49. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
50. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
51. The Real Scrooge lived here @ 18 Great Marlborough Street
52. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
53. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
54. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
55. Writer Haggard lived here @ 69 Gunterstone Road, Hammersmith
56. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
57. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
58. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
59. A meeting of Literary Minds @ 87-89 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
60. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
61. A Funny Man schooled here @ The Ride, Brentford
62. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
63. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
64. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
65. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
66. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
67. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
68. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
69. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
70. Author JG Ballard lived here @ 36 Old Charlton Road, Shepperton
71. Canonbury Towers @ Canonbury Place, Islington
72. 84 Charing Cross Road @ 84 Charing Cross Road, London
73. An Art & Print Treasure @ Bride Lane, Fleet Street
74. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
75. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
76. John Ruskin born here @ 54 Hunter Street, Holborn
77. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
78. Well Hall Pleasaunce @ Well Hall Road, Eltham
79. The New Clapham Library @ 91 Clapham High Street, Clapham
80. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
81. William Morris' Red House @ Red House Lane
82. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
83. The Original Media Mogul: Elias @ 19-24 Floral Street, Covent Garden, London
84. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
85. Lawrence of Arabia's Land @ Pole Hill, Chingford
86. Charles Lamb lived here @ 20 Russell Street, Covent Garden
87. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
88. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
89. Goldsmith and Blackstone @ 2 Brick Court, Temple, London
90. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
91. Samuel Pepys birthplace @ Salisbury Court, Fleet Street
92. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
93. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
94. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
95. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
96. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
97. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
98. The Dove @ 19 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
99. Free Learning for All @ Barnard's Inn Hall
100. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
101. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
102. Agatha Christie's First Home @ 47-48 Campden Street, Kensington
103. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
104. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
105. World's Biggest Plum Pudding! @ 17 Easycheap, London
106. Author DH Lawrence lived here @ 32 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
107. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
108. Heath Robinson lived here @ Moy Lodge, 75 Moss Lane, Pinner, Harrow
109. Sir John Betjeman @ 31 Highgate West Hill, Highgate, Highgate
110. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square