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. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
12. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
13. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
14. St George the Martyr and Dickens @ Borough High Street, Southwark, London
15. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
16. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
17. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
18. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
19. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
20. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
21. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
22. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
23. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
24. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
25. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
26. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
27. Samuel Pepys birthplace @ Salisbury Court, Fleet Street
28. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
29. Birthplace of GK Chesterton @ 32 Sheffield Terrace, Campden Hill
30. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
31. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
32. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
33. James Joyce lived here @ 28b Campden Grove, Kensington, London
34. A Funny Man schooled here @ The Ride, Brentford
35. Novelist James Hilton lived here @ 42 Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green
36. Bram Stoker's Heroic Deed @ 27 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
37. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
38. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
39. Last Gay Bookshop @ 66 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
40. Legend of Fu Manchu @ Gill Street, Limehouse, London
41. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
42. The Holly Bush @ 22 Holly Mount, Hampstead
43. Anthony Trollope was born here @ 16 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London
44. Peter the Great trashed here @ 146 Deptford High Street, London
45. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
46. The Elephant and Castle Story @ Elephant and Castle, Southwark, London
47. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
48. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
49. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
50. Rupert Bear was created Here @ 58 Cranes Park
51. The Original Hatchard's @ 173 Piccadilly, London
52. Bram Stoker lived here @ 18 St Leonards Terrace, Chelsea
53. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
54. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
55. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
56. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
57. Victoria Tower @ Westminster
58. The Old Nicholl @ Arnold Circus, Tower Hamlets, London
59. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
60. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
61. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
62. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
63. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
64. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
65. The Dove @ 19 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
66. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
67. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
68. Punch Tavern @ 95 Fleet Street
69. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
70. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
71. 101 Dalmations author lived here @ 19 Dorset Square, Marylebone
72. The Albany, home to AJ Raffles @ Albany Court, St James, London
73. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
74. Rights of Man written here @ The Old Red Lion, Islington, London
75. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
76. The Wig and Pen Club @ 230 The Strand, Westminster, London
77. Ripping Yarns @ 355 Archway Road, Highgate
78. The First ever London Theatre @ 86-88 Curtain Road
79. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
80. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
81. The Real Scrooge lived here @ 18 Great Marlborough Street
82. James Bond's House @ Royal Avenue, Chelsea
83. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
84. Home of poet Robert Browning @ 19 Warwick Crescent, Paddington, London
85. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
86. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
87. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
88. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
89. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
90. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
91. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
92. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
93. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
94. Woolf and Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
95. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
96. Walter Pater lived here @ 12 Earls Terrace, Kensington
97. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court
98. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
99. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
100. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London
101. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
102. JB Priestley lived here @ 27 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
103. Home to Three Men in a Boat @ 91-104 Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea Bridge Road
104. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
105. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
106. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
107. John Ruskin born here @ 54 Hunter Street, Holborn
108. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
109. Free Learning for All @ Barnard's Inn Hall
110. Cash in the Wind @ The Bank Of England