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. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
12. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
13. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
14. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
15. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
16. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
17. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
18. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
19. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
20. The Wig and Pen Club @ 230 The Strand, Westminster, London
21. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
22. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
23. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
24. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
25. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
26. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
27. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
28. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
29. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
30. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
31. Cliveden and the Profumo Affair @ Taplow, Maidenhead
32. The Holly Bush @ 22 Holly Mount, Hampstead
33. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
34. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
35. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
36. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
37. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
38. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
39. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
40. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
41. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
42. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
43. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
44. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
45. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
46. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
47. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
48. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
49. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
50. A Funny Man schooled here @ The Ride, Brentford
51. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
52. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
53. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
54. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
55. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
56. Canonbury Towers @ Canonbury Place, Islington
57. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station
58. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
59. The New Clapham Library @ 91 Clapham High Street, Clapham
60. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
61. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
62. Author JG Ballard lived here @ 36 Old Charlton Road, Shepperton
63. The Real Scrooge lived here @ 18 Great Marlborough Street
64. Charles Lamb lived here @ 20 Russell Street, Covent Garden
65. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
66. Sir Clement the Great @ Boundary Road, St John's Wood
67. William Morris' Red House @ Red House Lane
68. An Art & Print Treasure @ Bride Lane, Fleet Street
69. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
70. The Dove @ 19 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
71. Well Hall Pleasaunce @ Well Hall Road, Eltham
72. Lawrence of Arabia's Land @ Pole Hill, Chingford
73. Heath Robinson lived here @ Moy Lodge, 75 Moss Lane, Pinner, Harrow
74. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
75. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
76. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
77. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
78. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
79. 84 Charing Cross Road @ 84 Charing Cross Road, London
80. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
81. A meeting of Literary Minds @ 87-89 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
82. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
83. The Original Media Mogul: Elias @ 19-24 Floral Street, Covent Garden, London
84. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
85. Agatha Christie's First Home @ 47-48 Campden Street, Kensington
86. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
87. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
88. King Kong Edgar Wallaces House @ 6 Tressillian Crescent, Brockley
89. World's Biggest Plum Pudding! @ 17 Easycheap, London
90. Samuel Beckett lived here @ 34 Gertrude Street, Chelsea
91. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
92. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
93. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
94. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
95. Walter Pater lived here @ 12 Earls Terrace, Kensington
96. Free Learning for All @ Barnard's Inn Hall
97. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
98. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
99. Author Arnold Bennett lived here @ 75 Cadogan Square, Knightsbridge, London
100. Samuel Pepys birthplace @ Salisbury Court, Fleet Street
101. Legend of Fu Manchu @ Gill Street, Limehouse, London
102. Goldsmith and Blackstone @ 2 Brick Court, Temple, London
103. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London
104. Bram Stoker lived here @ 18 St Leonards Terrace, Chelsea
105. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
106. Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd @ 3 St. James's Street, Lambeth
107. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
108. 2 Blokes, 1 Bookshop, No Idea @ Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green
109. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
110. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square