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. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
12. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
13. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
14. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
15. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
16. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
17. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
18. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
19. Well Hall Pleasaunce @ Well Hall Road, Eltham
20. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
21. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
22. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
23. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
24. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
25. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
26. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
27. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
28. The Holly Bush @ 22 Holly Mount, Hampstead
29. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
30. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
31. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
32. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
33. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
34. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
35. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
36. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
37. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
38. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
39. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
40. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
41. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
42. Ann Radcliffe lived here @ 7 Buckingham Gate, Pimlico
43. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
44. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
45. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
46. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
47. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
48. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
49. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
50. Woolf and Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
51. Allan Chappelow Murder @ 9 Downshire Hill, Hampstead
52. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
53. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
54. Charing Cross Book Worms @ Charing Cross Road
55. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
56. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
57. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
58. WT Stead lived here @ 5 Smith Square, Westminster, London
59. Legend of Fu Manchu @ Gill Street, Limehouse, London
60. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese @ 145 Fleet St
61. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
62. Quercus - Publishing Revelation @ 21 Bloomsbury Square, Bloomsbury
63. Free Learning for All @ Barnard's Inn Hall
64. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
65. Doves Bindery and Press @ 15 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
66. 2 Blokes, 1 Bookshop, No Idea @ Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green
67. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
68. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
69. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
70. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
71. Ripping Yarns @ 355 Archway Road, Highgate
72. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
73. William Morris' Red House @ Red House Lane
74. Temple Church @ Temple, London
75. James Joyce lived here @ 28b Campden Grove, Kensington, London
76. St George the Martyr and Dickens @ Borough High Street, Southwark, London
77. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
78. Home of poet Robert Browning @ 19 Warwick Crescent, Paddington, London
79. Lawrence of Arabia's Land @ Pole Hill, Chingford
80. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
81. Creator of the A-Z born here @ 3 Court Lane Gardens, East Dulwich, London
82. The Original Hatchard's @ 173 Piccadilly, London
83. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
84. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
85. Samuel Beckett lived here @ 34 Gertrude Street, Chelsea
86. Well Read in the North @ 218 Eversholt Street
87. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
88. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
89. Author Nevil Shute born here @ 16 Somerset Road, West Ealing
90. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
91. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
92. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
93. Author DH Lawrence lived here @ 32 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
94. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
95. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
96. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
97. Sir Clement the Great @ Boundary Road, St John's Wood
98. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
99. Keats House @ Keats Grove, Hampstead, London
100. The Real Scrooge lived here @ 18 Great Marlborough Street
101. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court
102. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
103. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
104. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
105. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
106. Author Laurence Sterne died here @ 41 Old Bond Street
107. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
108. Sherlock Holmes Remembered @ Baker Street Tube Station
109. Sir John Betjeman @ 31 Highgate West Hill, Highgate, Highgate
110. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London










