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 worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
12. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
13. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
14. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
15. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
16. The Albany, home to AJ Raffles @ Albany Court, St James, London
17. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
18. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
19. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
20. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
21. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
22. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
23. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
24. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
25. Bram Stoker's Heroic Deed @ 27 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
26. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
27. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
28. Home of poet Robert Browning @ 19 Warwick Crescent, Paddington, London
29. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
30. Daphne du Maurier lived here @ Cannon Cottage, Well Road, Hampstead
31. The Original Hatchard's @ 173 Piccadilly, London
32. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
33. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
34. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
35. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
36. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
37. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
38. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
39. The First ever London Theatre @ 86-88 Curtain Road
40. Mrs Beeton was born here @ 24 Milk Street, Cheapside, London
41. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
42. Ripping Yarns @ 355 Archway Road, Highgate
43. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
44. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
45. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
46. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
47. Author Nevil Shute born here @ 16 Somerset Road, West Ealing
48. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
49. The Greene Man @ 383 Euston Road, Marylebone
50. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
51. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
52. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
53. Goldsmith and Blackstone @ 2 Brick Court, Temple, London
54. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
55. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
56. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
57. John Ruskin born here @ 54 Hunter Street, Holborn
58. Architect Pevsner lived here @ 2 Wildwood Terrace, Hampstead, London
59. Peter Cook's Baby Lives On @ 6 Carlisle Street
60. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
61. WT Stead lived here @ 5 Smith Square, Westminster, London
62. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
63. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
64. Sherlock Holmes Remembered @ Baker Street Tube Station
65. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
66. Creator of the A-Z born here @ 3 Court Lane Gardens, East Dulwich, London
67. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
68. World's Biggest Plum Pudding! @ 17 Easycheap, London
69. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station
70. St George the Martyr and Dickens @ Borough High Street, Southwark, London
71. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
72. Lawrence of Arabia's Land @ Pole Hill, Chingford
73. Rights of Man written here @ The Old Red Lion, Islington, London
74. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
75. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
76. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
77. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
78. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
79. Drama here since 1948 @ Beech Walk, Crayford
80. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
81. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
82. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
83. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
84. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
85. Rudyard Kipling lived here @ 43 Villiers Street, Westminster
86. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
87. Samuel Beckett lived here @ 34 Gertrude Street, Chelsea
88. Famous Drinkers to die for @ 127 Gloucester Road, Kensington
89. Cash in the Wind @ The Bank Of England
90. Birthplace of the Pre-Raphaelite @ Cavendish College
91. John Buchan lived here @ 76 Portland Place, Marylebone, London
92. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
93. Frankenstein author born here @ Polygon Road, Euston
94. An Art & Print Treasure @ Bride Lane, Fleet Street
95. Charing Cross Book Worms @ Charing Cross Road
96. 2 Blokes, 1 Bookshop, No Idea @ Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green
97. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
98. Cliveden and the Profumo Affair @ Taplow, Maidenhead
99. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
100. Sir John Betjeman @ 31 Highgate West Hill, Highgate, Highgate
101. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
102. Birthplace of Georgette Heyer @ 103 Woodside, Wimbledon
103. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
104. George Bernard Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
105. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
106. James Bond's House @ Royal Avenue, Chelsea
107. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
108. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court
109. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London
110. Karl Popper lived here @ 16 Burlington Rise, East Barnet, London