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. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
12. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
13. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
14. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
15. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
16. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
17. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
18. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
19. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
20. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
21. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
22. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
23. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
24. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
25. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
26. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
27. 84 Charing Cross Road @ 84 Charing Cross Road, London
28. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
29. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
30. Clapham Junction & Oscar Wilde @ St John's Hill, Clapham
31. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
32. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
33. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
34. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
35. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
36. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
37. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
38. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
39. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
40. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
41. James Joyce lived here @ 28b Campden Grove, Kensington, London
42. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
43. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
44. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
45. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
46. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
47. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
48. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
49. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
50. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
51. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
52. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
53. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
54. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
55. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
56. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
57. 101 Dalmations author lived here @ 19 Dorset Square, Marylebone
58. WT Stead lived here @ 5 Smith Square, Westminster, London
59. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
60. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
61. Dickens 1st Love lived here @ 1 Lombard Street, London
62. Lytton Strachey lived here @ 51 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
63. Mark Twain's death @ 23 Tedworth Square, Chelsea, London
64. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
65. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
66. Barn Elms Kit Cat House @ Barn Elms, Putney, London
67. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
68. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
69. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court
70. Punch Tavern @ 95 Fleet Street
71. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
72. Samuel Beckett lived here @ 34 Gertrude Street, Chelsea
73. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
74. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
75. JG Ballard's Millenium People @ Chelsea Marina Harbour, Fulham, London
76. CS Forester lived here @ 58 Underhill Road, East Dulwich
77. Victoria Tower @ Westminster
78. The Wind in Holland Park @ 16 Phillimore Place, Holland Park
79. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
80. The New Clapham Library @ 91 Clapham High Street, Clapham
81. George Orwell's House @ Mortimer Crescent, Kilburn
82. Temple Church @ Temple, London
83. Creator of the A-Z born here @ 3 Court Lane Gardens, East Dulwich, London
84. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
85. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
86. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
87. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
88. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
89. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
90. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
91. John Buchan lived here @ 76 Portland Place, Marylebone, London
92. Charles Williams born here @ 3 Caedmon Road, Islington, London
93. Home of Ian Fleming @ 22 Ebury Street, Westminster
94. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
95. Bram Stoker lived here @ 18 St Leonards Terrace, Chelsea
96. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
97. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
98. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
99. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
100. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
101. Architect Pevsner lived here @ 2 Wildwood Terrace, Hampstead, London
102. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
103. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
104. The Greene Man @ 383 Euston Road, Marylebone
105. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
106. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
107. James Bond's House @ Royal Avenue, Chelsea
108. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
109. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
110. Author DH Lawrence lived here @ 32 Well Walk, Hampstead, London