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. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
12. The Real Scrooge lived here @ 18 Great Marlborough Street
13. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
14. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
15. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
16. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
17. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
18. Regan once lived Here @ 9 Highbury Crescent
19. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
20. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
21. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
22. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
23. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
24. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
25. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
26. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station
27. Last Gay Bookshop @ 66 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
28. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
29. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
30. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
31. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
32. St George the Martyr and Dickens @ Borough High Street, Southwark, London
33. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
34. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
35. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
36. The Holly Bush @ 22 Holly Mount, Hampstead
37. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
38. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
39. Allan Chappelow Murder @ 9 Downshire Hill, Hampstead
40. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
41. Mervyn Peake lived here @ 1 Drayton Gardens, London
42. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
43. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
44. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
45. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
46. Famous Drinkers to die for @ 127 Gloucester Road, Kensington
47. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
48. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
49. Karl Popper lived here @ 16 Burlington Rise, East Barnet, London
50. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
51. James Joyce lived here @ 28b Campden Grove, Kensington, London
52. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
53. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
54. Victoria Tower @ Westminster
55. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
56. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
57. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
58. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
59. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
60. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
61. The Wheatsheaf @ 25 Rathbone Place
62. William Morris' Red House @ Red House Lane
63. Bram Stoker's Heroic Deed @ 27 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
64. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
65. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
66. Home to Three Men in a Boat @ 91-104 Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea Bridge Road
67. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
68. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
69. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
70. Clapham Junction & Oscar Wilde @ St John's Hill, Clapham
71. 101 Dalmations author lived here @ 19 Dorset Square, Marylebone
72. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
73. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
74. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
75. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
76. Gordons... Wine Specialist @ 47 Villiers Street
77. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
78. Ann Radcliffe lived here @ 7 Buckingham Gate, Pimlico
79. Dickens 1st Love lived here @ 1 Lombard Street, London
80. Well Hall Pleasaunce @ Well Hall Road, Eltham
81. WT Stead lived here @ 5 Smith Square, Westminster, London
82. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
83. Clemence Dane lived here @ 34 Hamilton Terrace, St Johns Wood
84. 84 Charing Cross Road @ 84 Charing Cross Road, London
85. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
86. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
87. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
88. Home of Ian Fleming @ 22 Ebury Street, Westminster
89. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court
90. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
91. Author Laurence Sterne died here @ 41 Old Bond Street
92. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
93. Rights of Man written here @ The Old Red Lion, Islington, London
94. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
95. JG Ballard's Millenium People @ Chelsea Marina Harbour, Fulham, London
96. World's Biggest Plum Pudding! @ 17 Easycheap, London
97. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
98. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
99. Barn Elms Kit Cat House @ Barn Elms, Putney, London
100. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
101. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
102. Bram Stoker lived here @ 18 St Leonards Terrace, Chelsea
103. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
104. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
105. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
106. John Buchan lived here @ 76 Portland Place, Marylebone, London
107. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
108. The Original Hatchard's @ 173 Piccadilly, London
109. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
110. Agatha Christie's First Home @ 47-48 Campden Street, Kensington