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. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
12. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
13. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
14. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
15. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
16. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
17. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
18. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
19. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
20. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
21. Famous Drinkers to die for @ 127 Gloucester Road, Kensington
22. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
23. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
24. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
25. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
26. Peter Cook's Baby Lives On @ 6 Carlisle Street
27. The Greene Man @ 383 Euston Road, Marylebone
28. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
29. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
30. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
31. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
32. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
33. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
34. Home to Three Men in a Boat @ 91-104 Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea Bridge Road
35. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
36. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
37. The Wheatsheaf @ 25 Rathbone Place
38. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
39. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
40. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
41. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
42. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
43. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
44. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
45. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
46. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
47. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
48. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
49. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
50. Author JG Ballard lived here @ 36 Old Charlton Road, Shepperton
51. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
52. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
53. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
54. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
55. Gothic Author Riddell lived here @ East Gate Lodge, St Ann's Road, Tottenham
56. Legend of Fu Manchu @ Gill Street, Limehouse, London
57. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
58. William Beckford born here @ 22 Soho Square, London
59. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
60. Mark Twain's death @ 23 Tedworth Square, Chelsea, London
61. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
62. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
63. John Evelyn's House @ 14 Dover Street, Mayfair
64. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
65. Daphne du Maurier lived here @ Cannon Cottage, Well Road, Hampstead
66. The Real Scrooge lived here @ 18 Great Marlborough Street
67. Goldsmith and Blackstone @ 2 Brick Court, Temple, London
68. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
69. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
70. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court
71. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
72. The Original Media Mogul: Elias @ 19-24 Floral Street, Covent Garden, London
73. Lawrence of Arabia's Land @ Pole Hill, Chingford
74. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
75. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
76. Bram Stoker's first London home @ 7 Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London
77. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
78. Well Hall Pleasaunce @ Well Hall Road, Eltham
79. Frankenstein author born here @ Polygon Road, Euston
80. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
81. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
82. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
83. Birthplace of the Pre-Raphaelite @ Cavendish College
84. Bram Stoker's Heroic Deed @ 27 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
85. Samuel Pepys birthplace @ Salisbury Court, Fleet Street
86. Cash in the Wind @ The Bank Of England
87. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
88. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
89. Mrs Beeton was born here @ 24 Milk Street, Cheapside, London
90. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
91. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
92. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
93. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
94. A meeting of Literary Minds @ 87-89 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
95. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
96. Doves Bindery and Press @ 15 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
97. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
98. Ripping Yarns @ 355 Archway Road, Highgate
99. Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd @ 3 St. James's Street, Lambeth
100. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
101. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
102. JG Ballard's Millenium People @ Chelsea Marina Harbour, Fulham, London
103. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
104. WH Smith lived here @ 12c Hyde Park Street, Bayswater
105. World's Biggest Plum Pudding! @ 17 Easycheap, London
106. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
107. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
108. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
109. 2 Blokes, 1 Bookshop, No Idea @ Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green
110. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station