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. Anthony Hopkins Odd Coincidence @ Leicester Square Tube station, London
12. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
13. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
14. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
15. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
16. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
17. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
18. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
19. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
20. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
21. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
22. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
23. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
24. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
25. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
26. The Original Media Mogul: Elias @ 19-24 Floral Street, Covent Garden, London
27. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
28. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
29. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
30. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
31. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
32. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
33. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
34. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
35. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
36. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
37. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
38. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
39. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station
40. The Holly Bush @ 22 Holly Mount, Hampstead
41. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
42. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
43. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
44. Free Learning for All @ Barnard's Inn Hall
45. James Joyce lived here @ 28b Campden Grove, Kensington, London
46. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
47. 84 Charing Cross Road @ 84 Charing Cross Road, London
48. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
49. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
50. A meeting of Literary Minds @ 87-89 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
51. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
52. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
53. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
54. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
55. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
56. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
57. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
58. Barn Elms Kit Cat House @ Barn Elms, Putney, London
59. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
60. Karl Popper lived here @ 16 Burlington Rise, East Barnet, London
61. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
62. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
63. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
64. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
65. A Funny Man schooled here @ The Ride, Brentford
66. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
67. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
68. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
69. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
70. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
71. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
72. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
73. The Greene Man @ 383 Euston Road, Marylebone
74. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
75. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
76. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
77. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
78. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
79. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
80. Creator of the A-Z born here @ 3 Court Lane Gardens, East Dulwich, London
81. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
82. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
83. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
84. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
85. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
86. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
87. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
88. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
89. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
90. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
91. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
92. Charles Williams born here @ 3 Caedmon Road, Islington, London
93. Mark Twain's death @ 23 Tedworth Square, Chelsea, London
94. Temple Church @ Temple, London
95. The First ever London Theatre @ 86-88 Curtain Road
96. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
97. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
98. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
99. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
100. Jane Austen lived here @ 10 Henrietta Street, Westminster, London
101. George Orwell Lived here @ 27b Canonbury Square, Islington
102. WH Smith lived here @ 12c Hyde Park Street, Bayswater
103. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
104. Canonbury Towers @ Canonbury Place, Islington
105. Author Wilkie Collins lived here @ 90 Gloucester Place (now 65)
106. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
107. Victoria Tower @ Westminster
108. William Morris' Red House @ Red House Lane
109. JG Ballard's Millenium People @ Chelsea Marina Harbour, Fulham, London
110. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London