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. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
12. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
13. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
14. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
15. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
16. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
17. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
18. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
19. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
20. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
21. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
22. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
23. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
24. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
25. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
26. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
27. JB Priestley lived here @ 27 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
28. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
29. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
30. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
31. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
32. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
33. Strawberry Hill House @ 268 Waldegrave Road, Twickenham
34. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
35. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court
36. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
37. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
38. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
39. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
40. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
41. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
42. Novelist James Hilton lived here @ 42 Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green
43. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
44. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
45. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
46. Ann Radcliffe lived here @ 7 Buckingham Gate, Pimlico
47. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
48. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
49. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
50. Clapham Junction & Oscar Wilde @ St John's Hill, Clapham
51. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
52. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
53. An Art & Print Treasure @ Bride Lane, Fleet Street
54. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
55. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
56. The Dove @ 19 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
57. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
58. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
59. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
60. Home of Ian Fleming @ 22 Ebury Street, Westminster
61. World's Biggest Plum Pudding! @ 17 Easycheap, London
62. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
63. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
64. Victoria Tower @ Westminster
65. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
66. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
67. Allan Chappelow Murder @ 9 Downshire Hill, Hampstead
68. Sir John Betjeman @ 31 Highgate West Hill, Highgate, Highgate
69. Free Learning for All @ Barnard's Inn Hall
70. 84 Charing Cross Road @ 84 Charing Cross Road, London
71. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
72. St George the Martyr and Dickens @ Borough High Street, Southwark, London
73. Bram Stoker's Heroic Deed @ 27 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
74. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
75. William Morris' Georgian Retreat @ 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
76. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
77. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
78. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
79. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
80. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
81. Sir Clement the Great @ Boundary Road, St John's Wood
82. Cash in the Wind @ The Bank Of England
83. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
84. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
85. Legend of Fu Manchu @ Gill Street, Limehouse, London
86. Regan once lived Here @ 9 Highbury Crescent
87. Author Nevil Shute born here @ 16 Somerset Road, West Ealing
88. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
89. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
90. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
91. The Original Hatchard's @ 173 Piccadilly, London
92. James Joyce lived here @ 28b Campden Grove, Kensington, London
93. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
94. Birthplace of Georgette Heyer @ 103 Woodside, Wimbledon
95. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
96. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
97. Canonbury Towers @ Canonbury Place, Islington
98. Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd @ 3 St. James's Street, Lambeth
99. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
100. Sherlock Holmes Remembered @ Baker Street Tube Station
101. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
102. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
103. WT Stead lived here @ 5 Smith Square, Westminster, London
104. Well Hall Pleasaunce @ Well Hall Road, Eltham
105. Author Laurence Sterne died here @ 41 Old Bond Street
106. Highgate Hill's Memorial Story @ Highgate Hill
107. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
108. Goldsmith and Blackstone @ 2 Brick Court, Temple, London
109. Cliveden and the Profumo Affair @ Taplow, Maidenhead
110. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London