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. Peter the Great trashed here @ 146 Deptford High Street, London
12. The Dove @ 19 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
13. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
14. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
15. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
16. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
17. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
18. Victoria Tower @ Westminster
19. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese @ 145 Fleet St
20. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
21. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
22. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
23. Agatha Christies Bombed House @ 58 Sheffield Terrace, Kensington
24. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
25. Author Laurence Sterne died here @ 41 Old Bond Street
26. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
27. Home of Ian Fleming @ 22 Ebury Street, Westminster
28. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
29. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
30. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
31. Samuel Pepys birthplace @ Salisbury Court, Fleet Street
32. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
33. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
34. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
35. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
36. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
37. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
38. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
39. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
40. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
41. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
42. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
43. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
44. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
45. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
46. An Art & Print Treasure @ Bride Lane, Fleet Street
47. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
48. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
49. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
50. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
51. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
52. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
53. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
54. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
55. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
56. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
57. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
58. WH Smith lived here @ 12c Hyde Park Street, Bayswater
59. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
60. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
61. Regan once lived Here @ 9 Highbury Crescent
62. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
63. Lytton Strachey lived here @ 51 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
64. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
65. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
66. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
67. Rights of Man written here @ The Old Red Lion, Islington, London
68. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
69. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
70. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
71. Drama here since 1948 @ Beech Walk, Crayford
72. The Original Hatchard's @ 173 Piccadilly, London
73. WT Stead lived here @ 5 Smith Square, Westminster, London
74. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
75. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
76. The Original Media Mogul: Elias @ 19-24 Floral Street, Covent Garden, London
77. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
78. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
79. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
80. William Morris' Georgian Retreat @ 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
81. Well Hall Pleasaunce @ Well Hall Road, Eltham
82. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
83. A Monastery and a Bard @ Blackfriars
84. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
85. Charles Lamb lived here @ 20 Russell Street, Covent Garden
86. The New Clapham Library @ 91 Clapham High Street, Clapham
87. The Albany, home to AJ Raffles @ Albany Court, St James, London
88. Doves Bindery and Press @ 15 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
89. Cliveden and the Profumo Affair @ Taplow, Maidenhead
90. Author Arnold Bennett lived here @ 75 Cadogan Square, Knightsbridge, London
91. Home of poet Robert Browning @ 19 Warwick Crescent, Paddington, London
92. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
93. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
94. Famous Drinkers to die for @ 127 Gloucester Road, Kensington
95. Clapham Junction & Oscar Wilde @ St John's Hill, Clapham
96. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
97. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
98. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
99. Allan Chappelow Murder @ 9 Downshire Hill, Hampstead
100. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
101. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
102. Enid Bagnold's Cow @ 29 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, London
103. Bram Stoker's Heroic Deed @ 27 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
104. 101 Dalmations author lived here @ 19 Dorset Square, Marylebone
105. The Wheatsheaf @ 25 Rathbone Place
106. Charles and Mary Lamb @ 17 Gentlemans Row, Enfield
107. John Buchan lived here @ 76 Portland Place, Marylebone, London
108. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
109. Punch Tavern @ 95 Fleet Street
110. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London