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. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
12. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
13. The Wig and Pen Club @ 230 The Strand, Westminster, London
14. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
15. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
16. Victoria Tower @ Westminster
17. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
18. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
19. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
20. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
21. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
22. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
23. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
24. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
25. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
26. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
27. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
28. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
29. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
30. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
31. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
32. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
33. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
34. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
35. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
36. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
37. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
38. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
39. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
40. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
41. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
42. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
43. The Dove @ 19 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
44. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
45. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
46. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
47. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
48. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
49. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
50. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
51. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
52. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
53. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
54. 84 Charing Cross Road @ 84 Charing Cross Road, London
55. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
56. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
57. The Real Scrooge lived here @ 18 Great Marlborough Street
58. John Ruskin born here @ 54 Hunter Street, Holborn
59. Author JG Ballard lived here @ 36 Old Charlton Road, Shepperton
60. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
61. Novelist James Hilton lived here @ 42 Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green
62. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
63. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
64. Ann Radcliffe lived here @ 7 Buckingham Gate, Pimlico
65. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
66. Grub Street @ Milton Street, London
67. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
68. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
69. Last Gay Bookshop @ 66 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
70. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
71. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
72. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
73. Bram Stoker's first London home @ 7 Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London
74. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
75. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
76. William Morris' Red House @ Red House Lane
77. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
78. Jane Austen lived here @ 10 Henrietta Street, Westminster, London
79. Home of Ian Fleming @ 22 Ebury Street, Westminster
80. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
81. An Art & Print Treasure @ Bride Lane, Fleet Street
82. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
83. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
84. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
85. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
86. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
87. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
88. Rupert Bear was created Here @ 58 Cranes Park
89. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
90. 2 Blokes, 1 Bookshop, No Idea @ Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green
91. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
92. Rights of Man written here @ The Old Red Lion, Islington, London
93. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
94. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
95. JB Priestley lived here @ 27 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
96. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
97. The New Clapham Library @ 91 Clapham High Street, Clapham
98. Heath Robinson lived here @ Moy Lodge, 75 Moss Lane, Pinner, Harrow
99. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
100. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
101. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
102. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
103. Birthplace of the Pre-Raphaelite @ Cavendish College
104. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
105. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
106. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
107. James Bond's House @ Royal Avenue, Chelsea
108. Anthony Trollope was born here @ 16 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London
109. Regan once lived Here @ 9 Highbury Crescent
110. Author DH Lawrence lived here @ 32 Well Walk, Hampstead, London